I woke up this morning to local news in Hawaii about David Duke. It was just a line on the bottom of the screen. A white nationalist radio show supported by David Duke rebranded the radio show from Stormfront Radio to the Morning Aloha Report. I was like, WTF? So I immediately googled it and what I found is disgusting.
Hawaii’s Civil Beat, Chad Blair, wrote about it, White Nationalists Try To Claim Aloha Spirit As Their Own.
A radio program promoted by longtime Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has rebranded itself “The Morning Aloha Report” and credited Tulsi Gabbard for the inspiration.
Formerly called “Stormfront Radio,” listeners of the white nationalist show were informed of the name change on Thursday by program host Patrick Slattery.
Quoting from Wikipedia, Slattery explained that aloha is defined as “love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy” and commonly used as a “simple greeting.”
But aloha, he added, “has a much deeper cultural and spiritual significance to Native Hawaiians.”
He continued: “According to Tulsi Gabbard, who I am not going to talk much about today … it is respect, I come at you with respect.”
Tulsi, who is part Samoan and a person of color, should sue these guys before she sues Hillary. Mr. Slattery prominently displays a picture of her holding a surfboard on the beach. It look like she supports this nonsense.
Listeners to the show formerly known as Stormfront Radio woke up on Thursday morning to find that their popular call-in talk radio show has been rebranded as The Morning Aloha Report. Instead of starting the show with refrains of the old Confederate standard “The South Will Rise Again,” a heartfelt 1917 rendition of Aloha Oe introduced the show. Co-host Dr. Patrick Slattery informed the audience that he has changed his name to Patrick Aloha, and welcomed callers with aloha, instead of the “Shalom, y’all” greeting he was previously known for.
Slattery, using his new handle, tell his listeners;
Dr. Aloha said that whites embodied the aloha spirit when they ended slavery, a scourge to humanity that had persisted since time immemorial across the globe. He noted that whites had brought modern medicine and public health to the far corners of the earth, reducing infant mortality and doubling life expectancy. Their technology and culture have greatly enriched the lives of people everywhere. While this process wasn’t always smooth or without ulterior motive, in general whites have shown tremendous altruism and thus truly embody the aloha spirit. He declared that henceforth we will be known as “Aloha-Americans.”
I caution those who would identify with the term Aloha-Americans. It is an oxymoron. To be true to the ALOHA concept, one must be humble, love unconditional, much like the HUNA tradition:
Aloha is being a part of all, and all being a part of me. When there is pain - it is my pain. When there is joy - it is also mine. I respect all that is as part of the Creator and part of me. I will not willfully harm anyone or anything. When food is needed I will take only my need and explain why it is being taken. The earth, the sky, the sea are mine to care for, to cherish and to protect. This is Hawaiian - this is Aloha!
When the white nationals can freely admit they're wrong and rejoice in all of humanity perhaps they will come to know the true meaning of Aloha.