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[Paraphrased] Honolulu, Hawaii — Lindsay Myeni [white] and her South African husband [black] moved to Hawaii, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. State. Honolulu police killed her husband.“We never thought anything like this would ever happen there,” Lindsay Myeni said.
To some, her husband's death and the lack of outrage from Hawaiians, is a reminder that Hawaii isn’t the racially harmonious paradise it’s advertised to be.Whites are not the majority and many people identify as having multiple ethnicities made Hawaii a place that felt right said Lindsay. “We were refreshed to be back to somewhere that is so diverse.”
Of Hawaii’s 1.5 million residents, just 3.6% are Black, yet in Honolulu alone, Black people made up more than 7% of the people police used force against.
Even though Hawaii is one of the few places where people of color are the majority, there are still anti-Black sentiments — at institutional and individual levels [otherwise known as racism]
Acknowledging Hawaii experiences racial bias in law enforcement like other parts of the country “explodes the myth that this is a paradise...Lindsay Myeni said her husband didn't encounter racist incidents in Hawaii....“people are warm and friendly and outgoing,” she said. “All the things he loved about South Africa, Hawaii has a lot of those.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-mass-protests-honolulu-police-155633667.html
[Sadly, like many Africans, and those who prefer “black,” Lindsay and her husband lived in almost complete delusion and ignored what Africans have been shown worldwide for millenia. We have no friends, not even people of color. We've been down this road many times before and have not learned the only friends we have and need are ourselves and each other. Africans stop calling yourselves people of color and including people of color as if they are on our side and in the same boat.]
In Ypsilanti Township, Mich., a 6-year-old Black child was shot in the arm by his neighbor who reportedly was upset that the child’s bicycle was in his front yard. The neighbor, an Asian man, first allegedly threatened the boy with a sledgehammer after he went to retrieve his bike, then the man went inside his home and fired a shot through his front window striking the child.