Comments on: Petition to change Kahuku nickname draws supporters, opponents

By: 2020

2020 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:37:43 +0000

the thing is, think about the students and how they will react. i know there is one or two that think to change the name, but that is because its “offensive to Native Americans” but the majority of the students grew up with the Kahuku Red Raiders. Yall want a riot?

By: Paul Honda

Paul Honda — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 20:28:03 +0000

In reply to Alex Torres. Mahalo, Alex. I've heard from many folks who said it was Ramblers. On the school site, it says Ramberiers. Maybe Ramblers was easier to pronounce?

By: Alex Torres

Alex Torres — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:05:43 +0000

My family had lived in Kahuku from the 1920’s when the school had just one building across the sugar plantation. The original name of the school was the
Ramblers, cause even then we used to ramble over our opponents. So if we need to go backwards in time, the Red Ramblers would be it.
AT

By: July 2020

July 2020 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:41:39 +0000

Recruited Not Rooted: Your ill-informed and verbose rationale reflect a high degree of ignorance. Kahuku’s name and uniforms hail from Iolani/Father Bray’s charitable concerns for the NS School and community in the 40s and 50s but at least Iolani dropped the “Red” from its name decades ago. MAGA uncles like you fly in the face of progress and unity and offer no solutions… only continued oppression.

By: ALLAN

ALLAN — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 14:02:08 +0000

CANNOT USE THE PHRASE, “SUCK IT UP”, UNLESS YOU MEAN WITH A STRAW.

By: ALWAY ASK WHY

ALWAY ASK WHY — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:19:08 +0000

I believe that the Kahuku Red Raider name or logo is not racism, not toward Native Americans or Polynesians, and should be kept. The name is not derogatory. On the contrary, it brings the North Shore Community together; the name is a source of pride. Fr. Kenneth Bray, probably Hawaii’s premier high school sports motivator, and the Iolani Athletic Directory and Football Coach 90 years ago, used the Red Raiders name to motive his band of small-size Asian ball players to compete successfully against Punahou, McKinley, Kamehameha, and St. Louis. As for the logo, I visited the Winnebago and Santee Sioux Reservations years ago. Walking down their main street was like walking down Maunakea Street; they could easily pass for my uncles and aunties. Although being of Asia ancestry, one Sioux child asked me what tribe I was from. And so, what should a Red Raider logo look like. I think, as with many things in life, it is in eyes of the beholder. I dare say that one can not satisfy everyone, that anything that is respectful should be acceptable.

By: roots

roots — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 20:37:37 +0000

@96730to89,

Many of the community members will continue to fight this. Lot of ignorance and double standards going around.

By: 96730to89

96730to89 — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:33:12 +0000

For those who thought our President was stubborn. You just wait to see how Red Raider Nation responds to this petition.

Queue the haka

By: ILoveHawaii

ILoveHawaii — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:36:21 +0000

Dang FF is a Savage.

By: Falcon Future

Falcon Future — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:58:09 +0000

Iolani has a reputation for being a smart school with plenty money. Iolani used to be the Red Raiders but they were smart enough to change their nickname to Raiders in the 1990s.

Kahuku’s nickname of Red Raiders came from hand me down jerseys from Iolani. Maybe its time for Iolani to donate a bunch of used jerseys to Kahuku that have just Raiders on it.

I think Iolani can afford to do that and it might be the only way for Kahuku to figure it out.