15 Ianuali 2013

We have come a long way in this movement, further than we can understand, since things appear to be all over the place.  We may be a little discouraged about it, but let us relate what's going on, to what we can understand:  Have you ever cleaned your house early in the day, when you had somewhere to go that night?  It's 3:30pm and you have to leave by 6:00.  The kids are all over the place, your spouse hasn't come home from work yet.  As you tear through the closet, you notice that you are leaving a mess all over the room.  Your spouse comes home, just as you mess up the bathroom with your smell goods and grooming accessories.  The house looks a wreck according to your spouse, but you know that it is only a matter of cleaning up your clothes and putting away your products.  Sure, it looks messy, and you assure your spouse that this is only a momentary mess.  what do you think is going through your mate's mind?  Of course they think you're crazy, then you pick up all the clean clothes that you decided not to wear after all, and tidy up the bathroom.  All of this is cleaned up by the time they get out of the shower, and by the time they are dressed and ready to go, the kids are cleaned up, the house is tidy and it is only 5:00.  It appears that you made some miracle happen, but it was the looks that were deceiving.  

This is about where we are in the movement.  Although things might not look so good, it is because we are getting ready to go in labor and are in the midst of birthing pains.  Kanaka, we don't have much time to salvage what's left, yet we don't have much further to go.  The real work that we have to accomplish is ho'oponopono amongst ourselves.  What is it going to take to see our people stop attacking each other?  when are we going to realize that when we close our door each night, we don't sleep with each other?  ..and if we are sleeping around like that, what is it going to take to learn how to respect ourselves?

Why would we disrespect one another, when we are already being disrespected by the other kine?  Are we not suffering enough?

Let's use our keiki for an example:  Mom tells lil Keoni to do the dishes, and he immediately goes into fight or flight mode, screaming that Anna didn't do the dishes last night.  In the meantime, mom tells Anna to clean her room and the first thing Anna does, is begin screaming that the dog made the mess and she doesn't have to clean it up.  What do you think we look like when we are in public forum yelling all over the place at each other?

What does it make us look like?  A bunch of immature fools! 

How professional does it look when we are blocking one another so that we can deface one another?  You don't think that makes us look like a bunch of idiots?  How do we expect to have our nation back and what are we going to do once we do?  Yell at each other and continue the hewa?  Is it worth it?  Do we think that we look cute, putting all kinds of false accusations out there to look better than the next?

What's with the 50,000 factions of self-righteous government factions?  Do we all have to be Kanaka heroes?  And if we do, what color cape should we be wearing, so I can be the first one with a cape, and spread rumors that you copy catted me?  Even though I bought mine at the department store, where there were 1,000 just like it, how dare you buy the same one!

The final question here is:  What does one win by gaining popularity?  If you were to win the popularity contest among the Kanaka, what do you get from that?  Watching people fight for your attention?  We seem so proud to put one another down and call each other names, that it seems unanimous that when talking on the phone with other Kanaka, we all just want to get away from  one another.  So why are we fighting for the right to have our own country if we don't even like each other?  We can't be around one another without the phrase "E kala mai" being the vocabulary word of the day.  What's the point?

If we expect to be our own country, then we must begin to act like one.  Having the westernized form of government is not very healthy either.  What is the point in having political parties?  So this reminds people of how America does things:  call the country united, but fighting so badly over the lies that the other political party is telling?  This kind of behavior is no different than the current government system that we all despise.

Let us find ways to unite visibly.  Let us malama ka aina by picking up the litter around our areas, keep the sidewalks clean, our trash cans in order, and what not.  Support our Kanaka in every effort that we believe in and if we don't agree, a lack of support says it all.  We don't have to slander one another.  There is no reason for that.  What good did all the pilikia of the past bring us?  Did we accomplish anything?  Where did it get us?  So let us ponder our words and actions before we go there and cause our own selves more problems than we came for.  If you are out there slandering people, then expect for it to come back to you.  Remember:  what goes around comes around.  If you want a beautiful life, then why not be a beautiful person?  If you want people to like you, then be a person that people can like.  

Let us remember the roots of where we came from and forget foolish pride, because foolish pride will get you nowhere.

We are Kanaka Maoli:  the finest people that the world has to offer.  Let's begin to act like that.  Aloha no, Kanaka Freedom