The military housing office keeps a list of apartments which consistently turn down Negro applicants. Last year downtown, Honolulu refused to admit Negroes. They said Fillipino patrons objected.
When a new Japanese theatre was opened in 1964, vandals painted obscene racial words on its outside walls.
The Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu is essentially a Caucasian group but open to other races. There are also Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, the Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce; the Korean Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu; and the Honolulu Filipino Chamber of Commerce.
A Honolulu city hall employee remarked, "I suppose if you wanted to walk down there and join any of these, they'd admit you to membership, but you'd feel mighty uncomfortable." He was a "haole," the accepted Hawaiian word in the islands for "white man."
There are approximately 286,000 "haoles" living in the 50th state. The next largest segment of the population is people of Japanese descent, who numbered 208,000. There are 40,000 Chinese, 103,000 part-Hawaiians; 10,000 full-blooded Hawaiians; and 73,000 Filipinos. Slightly less than 16,000 Koreans and Samoans and 9,000 Negroes, make up the state's 700,000-plus population.
Forty percent of these people intermarry. Earlier this year, Gov. Burns' son—a "haole"—married a part-Korean girl.
"Balance" in Hawaii politics almost always means a slate of candidates who stem from divergent racial backgrounds and therefore represent a cross-section of the community. For instance, the state Senate is split 1-2 Caucasian and Japanese, with one Hawaiian. The House has 26 members of Japanese ancestry; 13 Caucasians; four Hawaiians; five Chinese; and two Filipinos.
The governor is Caucasian; the lieutenant governor Hawaiian; the state attorney general Japanese; the state labor director Chinese. In Honolulu city council the chairman is one of three Caucasians on the nine-member body; there are five members of Japanese ancestry; and one Hawaiian.
The current Hawaii congressional delegation, however, is entirely Oriental —three Japanese and one Chinese.
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