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Old Apr 14, 2009 | 8:30 am
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cuyp
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Yes there was some coverage in local press about Aloha's role, but I did not see discussion of Hawaiian's discriminatory practices in the 30s and 40s. I have only family and friends accounts to go by, but they tell stories about Asians and locals boarding after whites, etc. Post-Saidians might argue that this was about class as much as race, etc. Locals don't like to dwell on the past and it's only recently that I heard about these events. It's like some older Asian locals refuse to read the Advertiser -- for its misbehaviors in the past, even though the owners have changed.
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