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<br />DEDMAN: You see these guys giving me the respect for talk? You should do the same. You <br />should let this Hawaiian talk cause you never hear him talk before, and you never heard any <br />Hawaiian talk this way. Seize the moment, bruddah, and be more humble about who you are and <br />who I am as one Hawaiian. Humble yourself. This is Hawai‛i. It’s not America. And we have <br />traditions and beliefs and bruddah respect me. We’re a minority today, number four on the <br />census. Get more Filipinos than Hawaiians left. What voice we get? You telling me to shut up? <br />You no like hear my voice? You won’t be hearing a Hawaiian voice in the long run. Only if you <br />sound like one haole. You ain’t gonna have one Hawaiian sound like a Hawaiian. No more! <br />There’s no traditions cause nobody respect that anymore. Everybody get their belief but I don’t <br />have my to, mine? Eh, I’m a vet, Vietnam vet. I fought for the freedom of religion, okay? Neva <br />see exempt the Hawaiians out of that. So, why aren’t you putting any money into the study of <br />what happens to Hawaiians. Out of 6,000 people in prison, 4,000 are Hawaiians and we number <br />four on the census. There is a psychological impact. There is a PTSD on Native Hawaiians <br />since the overthrow. Do one EIS on the impacts of Hawaiians when all you foreigners came. <br />I’m sitting here looking at foreign faces to ask my respect. Shame on you guys for living here <br />and not looking out for who’s your neighbor. Who took care of your ancestors when you first <br />came, god-damn man, put the money in the study where it belongs. If not, all you guys go move <br />by the pilau and live with it. If I lived there, and my kids get sick from something you approve, <br />you guys going be responsible and I’ll come to you to collect that responsibility. So, no pass the <br />buck. Do what is right, and it ain’t your money. It’s prostitution money, and put it back where it <br />belongs. That’s my statement. Enough, you don’t tell me shut up. <br /> <br />PATEL: So just—no, no, no I wasn’t asking you to stop. I was just simply asking that we have <br />a level of, you know, we can just be cordial during this process, that’s all. <br /> <br />DEDMAN: I’d like to just finish by saying you know what this is? Cultural racism! You <br />impose yours on mine. And for a Hawaiian that wants to be a westerner, I ain’t talking to you. <br />I’m talking to Hawaiians that want to be Hawaiians cause that’s the hardest thing to be today <br />cause nobody wants to do that. So, respect who I am, and respect the host people. Not the ones <br />who gave it up. The ones who still trying to hang on and pass that on to our kids. The passion <br />and the fire, okay? Every black child know what racism is. What you guys doing in Hawai‛i? <br />No act. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Commissioners, any questions? Commissioner Henkel. <br /> <br />HENKEL: Mr. Dedman, I admire your passion. Specifically, what would you have us do on <br />this? Approve— <br /> <br />DEDMAN: --Support— <br /> <br />HENKEL: --approve— <br /> <br />DEDMAN: --support the Edelstein study and what it’ll do, the psychological understanding of <br />what happened to Native Hawaiians when you alter theologies of their beliefs and their <br />traditions. <br />4 <br />EXHIBIT D <br /> <br /> <br />