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Thanks to Steve Holck for the (unintended, I’m sure) laughs (“Huckabee event uplifting, unifying,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Oct 30).
So Mike Huckabee is proud that his daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, experienced the Holocaust museum in New York.
Whatever effect that may have had on her at the time, she’s ended up propagandizing for a president who seems cool with neo-Nazis — “very fine people” — marching through the streets of the good old USA.
Most recently, she’s tried to normalize a chief of staff who spouts nonsense like, “Robert E. Lee was an honorable man” and, “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.”
She just might be living proof that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Patrick DeBusca Jr.
Kaneohe
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Kaepernick protest didn’t solve problem
If I was going to stage or participate in a public demonstration, it would be for an issue that would give some results for my efforts.
This is why I was surprised to see Colin Kaepernick kneeling rather than standing for the national anthem, to protest discrimination and police brutality.
Did he expect discrimination to end and there would be no more violence from the police officers? Issues such as discrimination are not going to end because he and others refused to stand.
They should look back to the 1968 Olympics when Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists when the anthem was played. That was 49 years ago. Did their actions bring about any significant changes?
Those who refuse to stand should check their surroundings as they begin each day to see if their refusal to stand on Sunday resulted in any changes.
Harry Matsuno
Hawaii Kai
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Americans must recognize diversity
With all the phobias against religions and minorities, it is quite obvious that the majority of Americans are not aware of who they are against.
Indians are identified as Muslims because of their complexion. Sikhs are being cast as Muslims because they wear turbans. Muslims do not support terrorism, but, because of some rotten apples, they are collectively being labeled as such.
African-Americans are typecast as criminals and drug pushers. Hispanics are declared drug dealers, rapists and criminals by our president.
We are blaming nearly any race that is not “white” for the problems of the world.
This brings back the past, when Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. They lost their property and livelihoods due to ignorant beliefs by the nation as a whole.
Until America understands that there is a larger world than “whites,” we as a country will never be able to define who the enemy really is and will never be able to solve the problem.
Jon Shimamoto
Mililani
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