Manaʻo wau he mea hou aʻe kaʻu e ʻōlelo ai e pili ana i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻo Michael Dunn aole i hoahewaia no ka pepehi ana i ke keiki eleele. Koe wale Ua ʻōlelo wau ma hope o George Zimmerman ʻaʻole i hoʻopaʻi ʻia no ka pepehi ʻana i kahi keikikāne ʻeleʻele. Koe na makua o na keikikane eleele ua ike mua i keia. Koe na makua o na keikikane eleele ua olelo loihi keia, a ua paneia mai lakou me ka hoohenehene.
Ua loaʻa iā Jordan Davis he makuahine a he makuakane. ʻAʻole ia i hoʻopakele iā ia. He makuahine a he makua kāne ʻo Trayvon Martin. ʻAʻole hiki iā lākou ke hoʻopakele iā ia. He makua kāne a he makuahine kaʻu keiki. ʻAʻole hiki iā mākou ke hoʻomalu iā ia mai ko mākou ʻāina, ʻo ia ko mākou aʻe a me kā mākou mea hoʻopiʻi. ʻAʻole hiki iā mākou ke pale i kā mākou mau keiki no ka mea, ʻaʻole wale ka manaʻo hoʻokae i ʻAmelika akā he hoʻoilina, a ʻo ka hiki ʻole o nā mākua ʻeleʻele ke pale i kā lākou mau keiki he kuʻuna kahiko ia.
Ua ʻike ʻo Henry "Box" Brown, nona ka ʻohana i luku ʻia a ua kālepa ʻia kāna mau keiki:
Ua ku au ma kapa alanui, kahi e hele ai na kauwa, ekolu haneri me kanalima. ʻO ka mea nāna i kūʻai mai i kaʻu wahine, he kuhina Metodi ia, e hoʻomaka ana no Karolina ʻĀkau. Maalo koke iho la na kaa elima o na keiki liilii, a nana aku la i ka mua, he aha ka'u e ike ai, o kahi keiki uuku wale no, e kuhikuhi ana i kona lima liilii ia'u, me ka hooho, “Aia ko'u makuakane; Ua ʻike wau e hele mai ʻo ia e aloha mai iaʻu. ”…
E hoʻokuʻu iā mākou i nā noi o "ka hewa ʻeleʻele-ʻeleʻele." ʻAʻole wau e mahalo i ka wahaheʻe. ʻOi aku koʻu manaʻo pupule. ʻO ka ʻōlelo hoʻomāinoino loa ma ka ʻōlelo ʻAmelika, ʻo ia ka “black-on-black crime,” i ʻōlelo ʻia me he mea lā ʻaʻole nā lima like i huki i nā laina ʻulaʻula a puni nā ghettoes o Chicago. , me he mea lā ua kākau ka poʻe ʻeleʻele iā North Lawndale a ʻaʻole i loaʻa nā kulekele. ʻO ka mea e kauoha ana i ka pepehi kanaka o kā mākou Hadiya Pendletons e kauoha pono i ka pepehi ʻana iā Jordan Davis. ʻAʻole wau e mahalo i kekahi ʻokoʻa. ʻAʻole wau e mahalo i ka wahaheʻe. ʻOi aku koʻu manaʻo pupule.
Ke koi nei au ua wili ʻia ka pili ʻole o ke ola ʻeleʻele i loko o kēia ʻāina mai kona wā kamaliʻi, a ʻaʻole e hoʻopau ʻia e nā mea hou loa i ke kula ʻo Negro Finishing School. Ke koi nei au ʻo ka racism ko mākou hoʻoilina, ʻaʻole ʻoi aku ka nui o ke akamai o Thomas Jefferson ma mua o kona hao wale ʻana i ke kino o Sally Hemmings, ʻaʻole ʻoi aku ka nui o ka hoʻokuʻu ʻia ʻana o George Washington ma mua o kāna ʻimi ʻāhiu. Oney Lunakanawai. Ke koi nei au ʻaʻole hiki ke hoʻokaʻawale ʻia nā hoʻomaikaʻi o ka Bill G.I kona hoʻoilina racist. ʻAʻole wau e mahalo i ka wahaheʻe. Ke koi nei au e hoʻomaopopo pono ʻia ka racism ma ke ʻano he Naʻauao, ma ke ʻano he manaʻo, ma ke ʻano he hoʻonohonoho paʻa ʻole a hiki i ka hopena o ko mākou mau lā, e hoʻi hewa ʻole mākou.
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