KE AUPUNI UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 2021
Keeping in touch and updated on activities regarding the restoration of Ke Aupuni o Hawai`i, the Hawaiian Kingdom. Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka `Aina I Ka Pono.
BANG! SCHOOL NAME CHANGED!
McKinley should be next!
Last Friday, September 17, the State Board of Education voted to change the name of Central Middle School to Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani Middle School. It went into effect immediately! When students and faculty returned to school on Monday, their school had a new name!
This decisive action by the BOE is very encouraging to those of us advocating for changing the name of President William McKinley High School, which shares the same historical origin with the former Central Middle School.
Both schools started as the Fort Street English Day School, which was founded in 1865 at a church on Fort Street in Honolulu. In 1869, Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani offered to house the school at her palace, Keoua Hale.
In 1895 the grades were separated with the upper grades becoming Kula Kiekie o Honolulu (Honolulu High School). In 1907 annexationists bent on using Hawaii’s schools to erase Hawaii’s history and purge Hawaiian identity, changed the name of Honolulu High School to President William McKinley High School and moved it to the corner of Beretania and Victoria Streets, facing Admiral Thomas Square.
Then, in 1923, McKinley High School was relocated a block away to its present location on King Street. The Beretania-Victoria site became Linekona (Lincoln) School... and today is the Honolulu Museum of Art School.
Meanwhile, the lower grades remained at Keoua Hale, Princess Ruthʻs Palace and became known as Central Grammar School then changed briefly to Keelikolani School. But in 1928, because “the name was hard to pronounce” (the excuse given by those using the school system to erase Hawaiiʻs history...), it was changed to Central Junior High School... which in 1932 morphed into Central Intermediate School, then Central Middle School in 1997.
Anyway, Central Middle School and McKinley High School have been inexorably joined from inception. For the sake of setting the historical record straight it is only fitting that both names undergo correction.
The Central Middle School community campaigned for their school’s name to be changed. But unfortunately McKinley High’s administration and alumnae are adamantly clinging to the McKinley name, even though he was a known racist, a white supremacist, the architect of the illegal annexation of Hawaii and America’s awful foreign policies of economic extortion, regime change, devastating shock-n-awe warfare, causing untold destruction, suffering and death… such as the awful debacle we are witnessing in Afghanistan today.
Hopefully, history and common decency will prevail... and the shameful name President William McKinley High School will soon be changed back to Honolulu High School or some other name more befitting of the outstanding reputation of the school. It is also hoped that the highly offensive statue of McKinley will be removed.
The U.S. unlawful presence in the Hawaiian Islands is not only illegal, it places us in mortal danger. The more we stand as free people; the more we assert the Hawaiian Kingdom is alive and kicking; the quicker we can realize a Free Hawaii.
SIGN THIS PETITION…
Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! Our prodding worked! The DOE told us we they will soon start seeking public input. That means they are considering it. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too!
PLEASE KŌKUA…
Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort...
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Malama Pono,
Leon Siu
Hawaiian National
