A Collective of Diversity | Perspectives: The Pōpolo Project | IN FLUX | S3 E1 | Tribes

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[@jetjaguar88]

Well done! Great to see black folks in Hawaii who are creating community. It's important, because I think there are so few blacks living there (especially outside of the military).

[@JohnAranita]

Popolo lives matter!! My nice popolo friend, Reggie, matters!!

[@verycaring2387]

Im totally IN disbelief!
We need to talk.
SERIOUSLY.

[@sidjtd]

I supported the title “Popolo project” as a curiosity, as a fascinating piece of how people of a certain descent made it to Hawaii. Each person has a story and that’s extremely interesting. But that doesn’t even seem to be the aim of the project.
The popolo project seems to be just a way to racially commingle amongst similar looking people out of some misguided notion that somehow you will all get along just for being racially similar. I can see how it is therapeutic in specific contexts but imagine white people needing to find other white people to feel
Comfortable in a foreign country with no white people. Like, what?
I don’t understand this at all. As a racial minority I never fit into Mainland America and despite the fact that I arguably fit in racially in Hawaii, in reality culturally and socially I never naturally blended in Hawaii. I had to earn it.
I reject the notion that you have to find racially similar groups in order to get along. I find that notion in and of itself to be extremely racist for Hawaii and verging on supporting racial separation or segregation.

[@LeimertDreamer]

S. You don’t realize that you’re speaking from a place of privilege. You have the privilege of living in a place where there are many people who look like you and share your ancestry. Black folks in Hawaii don’t have that. If you listened to what they said before writing that dissertation you wrote, you would understand that just like there’s a Chinatown in Honolulu for Chinese folks to congregate, Black folks want that same thing. Congregation does NOT = segregation. I live in California and the Tongans and Samoans do the same thing on the mainland, they create spaces to share cultural moments with each other. This is also one reason why Chinatowns and Little Saigons thrive in so many places.
Relax. Nobody’s trying to turn Honolulu into Atlanta.

[@mellochello77]

Sad that white folk think if black people create anything for themself is racist. That is what this is really about. Privileged folks hate when black folks make anything out of themselves or connect to any type of history that connects them to other people. Just say that and leave. This triggered you and I don’t believe it is what you are sugarcoating it as