{"id":2903,"date":"2009-08-26T20:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T06:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2009-08-26T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T06:13:31","slug":"walk-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/26\/walk-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk the Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a negative reaction to some students burning a star cut from an American flag in the <em>Honolulu Advertiser<\/em> Letters to the Editor this morning.  This act was meant as a protest to the anniversary of Statehood, but was typical in its half-baked execution, which is in turn typical of the ignorant mentality of certain native rights\/sovereignity groups.  Immediately popping to mind was a memory of television news footage from the early days of the Makua valley controversy of a man in glasses climbing out of his brand new Subaru saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t accept the White man&#8217;s laws.  We don&#8217;t accept the White man&#8217;s ways.&#8221;  Really?  Where&#8217;s your <em>malo<\/em>?  Explain your glasses and car.  If these students were really advocating a return to pre-contact ways, they darned-well had better be ready to cut out the star with an obsidian or shark-tooth implement and start the fire with <em>hau<\/em> branches &#8211; made in PRC <em>Fiskars<\/em> and the <em>BIC lighter<\/em> don&#8217;t cut it!  If you&#8217;re going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk&#8230; unless you&#8217;re just a fake or poser.   <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/26\/walk-the-walk\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"asides-permalink\" title=\"Permanent Link to Walk the Walk\">(0)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a negative reaction to some students burning a star cut from an American flag in the Honolulu Advertiser Letters to the Editor this morning. This act was meant as a protest to the anniversary of Statehood, but was typical in its half-baked execution, which is in turn typical of the ignorant mentality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-KP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}