We are not the only ones to feel this way about Kenneth R. Conklin

Anti-Hawaiian advocate has racist agenda

Ken Conklin once again flaunts his true right-wing colors and perverted sense of history (Letters, Dec. 15). Several months ago, he equated the Hawaiian human-rights movement with Hitler's Nazi Germany. Now he demeans the name of Martin Luther King Jr. by associating his own racist crusade with King's message of justice.

Conklin's smoke and mirrors cannot hide the fact that he stands on the side of oppression and injustice. Essentially, he speaks for thieves who advocate the continued theft of Hawaiian land, culture and political rights -- the cultural genocide of kanaka maoli. Being of Japanese ancestry, I see Conklin peddling the same evil as those who subjected my ancestors to the legal rape of internment.

Martin Luther King's message was always justice for the oppressed. He would have denounced Conklin's racist agenda right along with the KKK.

Kiyoshi Matsuda



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