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Housing discrimination against white people in Hawaii by locals is rampant. They’re the majority there, they can get away with it, so many engage in it. Under 25 U.S.C. §4223(d), Hawaii is exempt from the nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act when it is distributing federal housing funds, and this carries over into the attitudes of people renting to haoles, or maybe vice versa. Chicken vs egg, I guess. At any rate, you see large scale housing discrimination there, as well as quite a few areas where it’s not safe to go unless you’re islander or asian, full stop. Cops don’t care and don’t investigate. Same with the many more areas where being haole won’t get you beat up, but it definitely WILL get you burgled and robbed on a regular basis. You’re expected to just deal with it as the cost of living where you’re not supposed to be.
There’s also the Kamehameha school, which is private and students have to be native. Which is fine… until you get to the part where it’s partially funded with public money. I plotzed when I learned about that one.
So, yeah. Try living there. It’s honestly amazing to see how much it manages to flip the script.
If Hawaii wasn’t part of America and thus the rights of rich white people override the rights of locals, that might be true.
But Hawaii IS part of the US so it’s not.
Housing discrimination against white people in Hawaii by locals is rampant. They’re the majority there, they can get away with it, so many engage in it. Under 25 U.S.C. §4223(d), Hawaii is exempt from the nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act when it is distributing federal housing funds, and this carries over into the attitudes of people renting to haoles, or maybe vice versa. Chicken vs egg, I guess. At any rate, you see large scale housing discrimination there, as well as quite a few areas where it’s not safe to go unless you’re islander or asian, full stop. Cops don’t care and don’t investigate. Same with the many more areas where being haole won’t get you beat up, but it definitely WILL get you burgled and robbed on a regular basis. You’re expected to just deal with it as the cost of living where you’re not supposed to be.
There’s also the Kamehameha school, which is private and students have to be native. Which is fine… until you get to the part where it’s partially funded with public money. I plotzed when I learned about that one.
So, yeah. Try living there. It’s honestly amazing to see how much it manages to flip the script.