The Beamer Brothers in Honolulu entertained with guitar, duet, and humor. The native Hawaiians ended one song with “…amazing place with all these race.”
Hawaiians were among the peoples who first populated the Islands. Other Polynesians, fruit workers—Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese—were imported to the Islands. Whalers were followed by other Americans. Missionaries followed mercenaries. Whites earned the slang title ‘Dumb Haoles.’
A black teacher who came to Hawaii from the United States confided he received more strident racial slurs on Hawaii than he received on the Mainland.
Those afflicted with leprosy were dropped in the shore waters of Kalaupapa peninsula on Molakai island, where Father Damien shared leprosy with his parishioners.
That’s where this sight-seer found wisdom from the lepers who printed, across six coconuts:
It no breaka your face to smile.
Photo Father Damien’s Church in Molokai Hawaii by Ritu Manoj Jethani at Shutterstock
