KE AUPUNI UPDATE - MARCH 2022
Reso for McKinley Name-Change... Blocked!
Disappointing news. Even though there were many powerful testimonies by people like the HSTA’s President and their legislative lobbyist (both McKinley faculty), the Chair of the Honolulu Youth Commission, organizations like the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and many individuals, who spoke eloquently in overwhelming support of HR 24 and HCR 26, the Education Committee did not pass the measure.
Rep. Jeanne Kapela, who sponsored the resolution really went to bat for us, but the other committee members, incredulously, refused to vote for this simple measure to urge the State Department of Education to consider changing the name of McKinley High School.
This means a group of aging, stuck-in-time, selfish McKinley alumni and principal are forcing future generations of students to be saddled with the stigma of the genocidal white supremacist, racist, imperialist William McKinley. It’s like… “Yeah, people say McKinley was a bad guy, but we don’t wanna change the name, so everyone will have to just live with it.”
Shame on the Education Committee members! All the resolution was asking them to do was urge the DOE to recommend the name change to the Board of Education. It wasn’t demanding or ordering the name change. The legislature passes resolutions like this all the time … some of which are accepted, rejected or even ignored… no big deal.
There must be a serious political reason lurking in the background to cause the legislators to back away from a no-brainer issue like this!
Could it be the powers that be actually know that if they support changing the name of McKinley, it wouldn’t stop there, and soon the entire Fake State of Hawaii would unravel? Hmmm maybe that’s it. Or are we giving them too much credit?
Anyway, the battle over McKinley is not pau. What would boost us over the top is an internal uprising, of current students and recent grads of MHS, demanding that the DOE not force any more students to be branded with such an offensive name. That would be a major step to a Free Hawaii.
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