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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
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 Posted - 10/20/2007 : 6:51:46 PM
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I guess I am not certain how to properly frame the issue I would like to discuss. I do not mean to discuss this statue in Hawai`i as a badge of popularity or whether someone personally has or has not affection or affinity for the man, rather the more specific issue of letting a TV station place a statue at an entertainment arena. I was thinking when I first read the article that I was kinda outraged at the "tackiness" of it because, no matter whether Elvis went there and liked Hawai`i or whether he filmed movies there, he was not a Hawaiian. Since then I noticed statues while I was out and about today. Besides the ubiquitous civil war general, there is a Hungarian freedom fighter, a Polish freedom fighter and a Beethoven statues within a few miles of here, and they were certainly not Cleveland-area folks. So I guess perhaps I shouldn't feel uncomfortable about the Elvis statue????? But I do though. Something about it just seems wrong and more of a publicity stunt than a way to honor the man for his ....well, whatever reason they felt it was worth putting a statue up about. But it seemed like the city was happy about it since they sent the mayor.
Does it make it OK because they had an `oli? I had great difficulty following the words to the `oli...my brain doesn't think in Hawaiian that fast...so I am uncertain of what they were saying. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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