The woman added, “And that says a lot about where their heart and mind is through all of this and where our heart and mind is.”
“You don’t see our people swimming, snorkeling, surfing. Nobody is having fun in tragedy and continuing their lives like nothing has happened,” she said. “There is two Hawaiis right now — there is the Hawaii we’re living in and the Hawaii they’re living in, they’re visiting in.”
Hawaii is an ongoing colonial project and it doesn’t get the same respect that continental states get in the US.