BAD DREAMS

THE ALOHA CON


Du Bois's nightmare of an "interracial free for all", has become reality here in Hawaii.

DuBoise - When I came out of college into the world of work, I realized that it was quite possible that my plan of training a talented tenth might put in control and power a group of selfish, self indulgent, well - to - do men, whose basic interest in solving the Negro Problem was personal; personal freedom and unhampered enjoyment and use of the world, without any real care, or certainly no arousing care, as to what became of the mass of American Negroes, or of the mass of any people.

My Talented Tenth, I could see, might result in a sort of interracial free - for - all, with the devil taking the hindmost and the foremost taking anything they could lay hands on.

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CIVIL RIGHTS.... HARDER TO FIND

April 14, 2009

NBA NEWS BRIEF
National Bar Association, 1225 11th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20001



HAWAI'I FRIENDS OF CIVIL RIGHTS HONORS AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS


(The African American Lawyers Association (AALA) was one of 4 recipients of the Second Annual Dr. Martin Luther King's, Jr. Friends Awards presented by the Hawai'i Friends of Civil Rights at the Pacific Club on January 25, 2009.

AALA founding members Andre S. Wooten, Daphne Barbee-Wooten, Sandra Simms and Rustam Barbee were on hand to receive the honors. The award was in recognition of the organizations ongoing efforts to promote justice and equality in our legal system and combat negative stereotypes about African Americans and other marginalized groups since its chartering in 1986. AALA's annual high school essay contests and its members' active and visible involvement in the Hawaii legal community were cited. Certificates of recognition were given by United States Congressman Neil Abercrombie, Senator Clayton Hee on behalf of the Senate, Representative Jon Riki Nakamatsu on behalf of the House, and by Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman. Other AALA founding members include William Harrison, Jerry Wilson, and the late Judy Weightman.

In his acceptance remarks, Rustam Barbee spoke of his father's mentoring of him and his sister's commitment to the quest for civil rights. Lloyd Barbee, was a Wisconsin civil rights attorney and lawmaker who consistently insisted that his is driver's license designate his race as "human". The state of Wisconsin was not amused and consistently returned his license with the race marked as "colored", and later, "Negro".

Current officers are President Shana Peete, Vice President Khalid Mutjabaa, Sandra Simms is secretary and Russ Barbee is treasurer.

Other HFCR honorees included Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, UH head basketball Coach Bob Nash, and longtime community activist and founder of the Community Alliance on Prisons, Kat Brady. Dr. Soetoro-Ng's presentation capped a week of extraordinary history-making as she arrived at the event directly from Washington D.C. and the inaugural celebrations that made Hawaii born Barack Obama, the first black President of the United States of America.

Faye Kennedy and Dr. Amy Agbayani are the co-chairs and organizers for the Hawai'i Friends of Civil