Laird Hamilton: Bullied by racists at school

[@DrNoth]

Thats the story of every white kid growing up in Hawaii unless your family is rich and you go to Punahou or another private school.

[@talksolot]

go back to your country ahole

[@finnthehuman28]

@@talksolot lol i know what word you were actually trying to say and you cant even be racist the right way. Settle down sis

[@A_K808]

big dog amazing, every word that you just said in that third sentence is wrong.

[@ultimatefirecracker1486]

DrNoth go back to your country dont cry like a cow if the tables are turned in the US you can have your white privilege back

[@jusbring610]

Yup

[@leesenger3094]

I grew up in Hawaii. I lived in Haleiwa, Salt Lake and Aiea. I had to fight frequently all through school simply for being haole. Maybe I didn’t have to fight but I got tired of running from Hawaiians and Samoans and Japanese kids who hated me for just being white. So I stopped running and started fighting. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s why I never back down from a confrontation to this day! Don’t start no sh!t, won’t be any. Gratitude Hawaii for the early lesson. I deplore violence now that I’m 51. But, I will always defend mine 100%!

[@lisaalexander3298]

I was born and raised on the Big Island. I am part Hawaiian, but because I am fair skin, I was treated as a “frickin haole from the mainland”. It was a hard lesson growing up being hated because of the color of my skin but also having the roots and the heritage of the islands. The one thing it did teach me is that it does not matter about the color of your skin, but who you are in the inside. It taught me to respect EVERYONE I meet across the board no matter what their Nationality, age, size, personal preferences are. That does not matter to me, it’s simply on who the person is and their integrity and how they treat others.

[@jdenmark1287]

As a fellow Big Islander, I am so sorry that had happened to you. Not surprised though.

[@abbynormall207]

It happens to white kids/white people on US mexico border towns also.

[@tomasrosser3433]

Excuses me . how do you live? Hawaiian? Haule? Living among us?

[@abbynormall207]

@@tomasrosser3433 ?

[@abbynormall207]

@@tomasrosser3433 so it's ok to be racist?

[@JohannGambolputty22]

I’m a white guy who lived in Hawaii for a couple years. I left specifically because I just knew I would always be treated like an outsider. Beautiful place but that wears off quicker than you think. Love that I got to live there but I also love that I don’t have to live there. Aloha spirit is only skin deep. People are more passive aggressive there.

[@brennenlobitos9857]

You guys are sensitive as hell in Hawaii we treat it as a joke but it’s far different back in the mainland you guys take everything so seriously

[@PeepersT]

Maybe you didn’t pass a vibe check

[@prometheus5770]

yeah whiteboi polynesians are still men and would protect their land but you got degenerated by subversive powers so you kneel to other races. you truly deserve how hawaiians treat you.

[@JohannGambolputty22]

@@prometheus5770 And because of people like you I laugh when I hear about how racist white people are. You are no different than the KKK. Enjoy your hateful hypocrisy.

[@prometheus5770]

@@JohannGambolputty22 I am a middle easterner

[@YeLizardLords]

Making it "way too much work" is an awesome defense against bullies, win or lose.

[@sanddirtsnow]

Growing up with a white dad in Hawaii I saw so much prejudice and racism. It was fucked being a helpless kid seeing my dad get attacked for pumping gas by massive Hawaiians, but luckily my dad is 6'2 220 and grew up wrestling and boxing all his life. I got in like 8 or 9 fights in hawaii and have witnessed dozens more, moved to the mainland in high school and probably only saw 2 fights in a span of 4 years. Crazy how many more fights went down on the islands

[@Longjohnsilver58]

High School is the closest any of us will ever come to experiencing prison.

[@Furious_George]

I grew up on Maui. He speaks the truth. I was the little sunburned haole boy charging the biggest swells. And getting hated on by the guys with no balls on shore... 🤷🏼‍♂️ lol

[@Furious_George]

Ordinary Guy never said I was bullied. Just a bunch of losers like yourself hating on good peeps. If that’s who you want to be, great. Go fuck yourself 👌

[@Furious_George]

Shot Uce I disagree. You think things would be better if Japan took the islands in ww2? Someone who has respect for the locals and land isn’t welcome because the color of their skin? No offense but that’s a bs perspective you have...

[@Furious_George]

Shot Uce lol run shit? Get a clue bro

[@Furious_George]

Shot Uce you’re a racist fuck. Karmas a bitch...

[@Furious_George]

Shot Uce that’s an apology? Ha work on your people skills bro

[@nickmc4550]

I grew up in Hawaii I’m black and white but I look white and kids and ppl there were friggin brutal same experience as him and then some treated me like straight shit from day 1 4/5 yrs old all the way through high school.. growing up there builds effin character I tell yah.. lol

[@mattilevi]

He’s right. The school system IS messed up. If someone assaults you in public, you call the cops and that person is arrested. If you are assaulted in school, there is nothing you can do without getting punished. They don’t arrest the student that assaults you. Cops don’t deal with assaults in school. You try to defend yourself, you get in in trouble and ultimately punished by the school as well. It’s a sad situation.

[@love_agapi_m3976]

I was physically and verbally attacked in hawaii at 7 years old the first time. They didn’t do anything.

[@littlellama8405]

Maybe they should check the colonizer system.

[@shoyupacket5572]

that's how it is, local kids are taught how to defend themselves, not to expect some adult to help you.

[@princessruth9155]

Dude I know laird really well and he was an asshole to everyone so the locals used to beat him up. Now I see hes all entitled and famous & STILL an asshole, and the narrative changes. That guy bullied me everyday in school. Don't be fooled. And BTW how does he purport to own a beach? Who is the racist brah? Racism is a power tool. Hawaiians dont have the power here. Come on this is always the fragile stuff where hawaiians r racists. Who benefits here in our homeland? Certainly not us. #deoccupythehawaiiankingdomnation

[@princessruth9155]

@@littlellama8405 right on. #colonizernarrative

[@khultherro8613]

Laird is actually lucky he grew up in Kauai. Oahu in town like Farrington High, or the West side at Wainae, or North Shore at Kahuku High he would have been jumped. There is hardly a one on one fight if you were winning. "Kill Haole Day," was a day where the whites would avoid going to school. Oahu schools were large schools compared to the small island of Kauai.

[@LC-tr4ou]

Maybe one day haole will come in on kill haole day with a AK-47 and spray as many bullies and bullshitasses as possible not like is hasn't happened before.

[@khultherro8613]

L C . . .NAH! Not happening in Hawaii. Guns are for the weak and losers.

[@tomasrosser3433]

Uh i watch fights on youtube... No we fight one on one. Your full of shit! Most of the time.

[@love_agapi_m3976]

OMG so true worse in Oahu. Though for some reason that I will always be grateful the Samoans always defended me. They volunteered to protect me bc they saw that I wasn’t stuck up or think I was better because I looked 100% white

[@khultherro8613]

Aloha If no violence on Kill Haole Day, it is because the haoles stayed away from school on that day. What school you went to?? Probably Kalani, Kaimuki, or school on the rich side of Oahu. Very few haoles in the inner city PUBLIC schools.

[@johnny6904]

I grew up here in hawaii and married a haole girl from the mainland. My son looks pretty much full white. We've always home-schooled him because I know exactly what he'll get in hawaii public schools!

[@mitchellcreates]

Must be proud to be "Hawaiian" lol.... "your" island is a joke and ur culture is weak and can't even keep ur own land lol.

[@cartoonkiller8805]

i was a white kid that grew up on oahu. you learn how to fight young. im one of the few white ppl that understands racism

[@molonlabe459]

I grew up in Detroit. No youre not asshole

[@BrockLanders]

I grew up in Philly. The black people here are openly racist towards whites. That’s why I don’t buy into their BS victim mentality.

[@Resistculturaldecline]

It's as prevalent or moreso than the traditionally spoken racism, but a tight hush is kept on it

[@thesaint8400]

Try growing up in South Africa bru. We have no rights here, no access to public sector jobs, our farmers are literally experiencing systematic genocide. No one cares.

[@shin-ishikiri-no]

@@thesaint8400 If I were white in South Africa I would seek asylum in Europe.

[@reionic8925]

Great interview Graham! He seems like a badass dude keep up the good work man

[@lockupcrookeddrumpf2226]

NAH HE IS A PUSSY

[@rtroutbumm]

LOCK UP CROOKED DRUMPF he’s a pussy lmao! Yeah he’s such a puss.

[@rtroutbumm]

David James no he’s a racist

[@whitegoodman7465]

Morons with half a brain commenting useless nonsense ^^

[@bgwhalley]

Did he call it, "Kidney-Garden?" 0:37

[@alexcarter8807]

Yep! There are little "Hawaiianisms" in his speech.

[@riffhousestudios96]

Just out here planting kidneys, don’t mind me

[@klevapanda4698]

No he said kinney

[@klevapanda4698]

Wouldnt it be kindagarten

[@pikiwiki]

isn't that where the kidneys are grown?

[@justinherbert9146]

I am white and was a victim of racism in high school where I was a minority, the majority of the student population was black - the black students would threaten me daily, take my money and hurl racist words at me -- I never complained to my parents or teachers, I took it -- but what it taught me was that no race has the market cornered on racism and cruel mean spirited behavior. Did I allow it to scar me? Hell no. It has had zero lingering effect on me -- but when I was going to marry and start a family I moved to rural, zero crime community with great schools so my children would never endure what i did -- and they did not

[@honkeyness9427]

Same here

[@josephinetracy1485]

I'll always remember this Puerto Rican girl I went to school with, and I couldn't think of enough negative adjectives to describe her horrible behavior. Then years later, in the suburbs, the company that I worked for hired her! We're actually meeting up again far from the old battlefields. She had gained perhaps 75 lbs, had become quiet, actually friendly, not a lot of energy, and everyone there thought that she was okay. Of course, she knew that I remembered, but we both just pretended that we had no memory or past experience with each other. She was the worst of a very bad lot. She was an absolute animal.

[@gabe5138]

“Didnt I hear that you tossed all the desks out the window?” Laird: “Absolutely *nodding head like it was an accomplishment*” hahahaha

[@danielcolon2193]

Ignorance lives in every skin color man. Do the right thing! Love to all! 🌞🌊

[@littlellama8405]

Yea, in particular the people that colonized and oppressed the native population than use their culture to get rich and famous while laughing at captain cook and American colonization.

[@robbingpetertopaypaul]

@@littlellama8405 everyone is mixed up now, grow up

[@littlellama8405]

@@robbingpetertopaypaul really that's your answer? I'm mixed. But I for sure know I have more privileges than my black family. Don't give some fake equality comment.

[@robbingpetertopaypaul]

@@littlellama8405 yeah like complaining 😂

[@littlellama8405]

@@robbingpetertopaypaul complaining or educating? Obviously you think only your voice needs to be heard. What do you reckon we do, kill all the white people and take their land like you did to us? Or talk it out and empathize with the situation? Yea, you're so privileged you ain't got shit. Keep talking smack till we meet on the beach and see which option you go for. I sure hope you're 6'6 and up so people don't act a Karen.

[@michaelkraus4135]

He would of made a GREAT Linebacker or free safety ! He is half crazy !

[@George-pw7md]

I spent the first 12 years of my life on the Big Island Hawaii and I dealt with racism on the regular. Wasn't too too bad though because my family was local.

[@George-pw7md]

@Ordinary Guy Yeah, little bit, but I liked it. Good luck to you. You seem happy.

[@jimjones3286]

All your fighter you send to guam get thier asses whooped. Come to guam prim.

[@George-pw7md]

@@jimjones3286 You seem really happy, man. Good luck to you.

[@Laflareup1017]

Hawaii is the most racist place I've ever lived. People think middle american rednecks are bad, live in Hawaii and you'll find out

[@jackstrada5263]

I was born and raised on Kauai and grew up with Laird. He is a few years older than me, and I looked up to him. He would always have the new issue of Conan the barbarian magazine, and we would look at it after school. He ended up lifting weights and becoming Conan, came back to Kauai and tuned up all the guys that used to f with him 🤣. Our dads were among a handful of surfers that moved over from California in the late 50s early 60s. They had it worse than us, by far. But going to Hanalei school I was bullied every day too. Then we moved to California after the hurricane hit in 81. In third grade I was bullying everyone in my school in San Diego, even the six graders. At recess I used to invite kids to line up and punch me in the stomach as hard as they could. After dealing with the big Hawaiians the kids in Cali we’re not intimidating at all. Then we moved back to Maui, and in ninth grade I made the mistake of beating up a local kid in my grade. For the rest of high school all his older brothers and cousins and friends we’re constantly trying to fight me. During lunch, waiting for the bus in the morning, getting off at my bus stop after school.The funniest part is after high school we all came really good friends. All the bullying and stuff really seems to be a school related thing.

[@love_agapi_m3976]

I have found that it goes past school. Racism and bullies don’t always grow up after schools and they just continue

[@spants1058]

Ordinary Guy how do you know? Where you there? Uh, no.

[@love_agapi_m3976]

s pants no I think he is local boy who doesn’t want to acknowledge the truth. Locals act like racism is only happens to them and that they are not racist or they still have the right to be. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Ashley-km4qi]

This story took so many twists, but glad to hear you guys became friends

[@g00dnatur3]

two wrong dont make a right -- don reciprocate the hate - end the bullying cycle

[@chadtellevik5479]

Oh man I heard Laird tell a story once of walking up to a bigger kid that was giving him a hard time. Laird smacks him across the face hard. The kid left him alone after that.

[@alexcarter8807]

I grew up in Hawaii and had plenty of resentment but here on the mainland where I am now, I've heard story after story about how the kids here pick on each other here too ... just as bad stuff. So now I realize I could have grown up on the mainland and gone to an all-white school and get just as picked on for some other stupid reason. And as far as that goes, I'm not entirely white so I'd probably have gotten picked on for that.

[@salmineo4132]

Give the land back to the people you thieves

[@honkeyness9427]

No - whites are the most tolerant of all groups

[@db2184]

"Welll...it started the very first day of school!" 😂😂

[@billybaugus1249]

I have read about how people learned not to fuck with Laird pretty quick. I quote i read from Billy Hamilton went something like sometimes you want to smack Laird but you don't because Laird will beat the shit out of you. It was from a great book called The Big Drop. I highly recommend it. All about different big wave surfers and the hairy moments they find themselves in

[@yZstarAk1979]

Righton Laird. Good interview, fortunate soundbytes. From schoolyard fights to death defying barrel rides; You rule bra. See you on North Shore🤙

[@georgemartinez8405]

I am Hispanic, from Laredo, Texas, but also lived briefly in Dallas, and San Antonio. Also visited Houston on several occasions. Never have ever been discriminated by any Caucasian. Why can't we minorites get along with Caucasians who do want to live peacefully with us?

[@julian5711]

george i cant stand you mexicans who try and act white. Im sure they did treat you poorly and you act like you didnt notice. Im hispanic from L.A and soon as i got around groups of white ppl in the NorthWest they act like punks and gang up on you. F whites minorities SHOULD NOT live peacefully with em

[@georgemartinez8405]

@@julian5711 I don't pretend to be anything! The 100% Mexicano said I wasn't Mexican and hated me with extreme prejudice. Not just me all the ones they called Chicanos. Yes I have British roots, but I'm not Caucasian. Their are alot of minorites who can and have lived peacefully together, and well those who do should be let so

[@honkeyness9427]

Thank you for speaking up

[@dinkleberg746]

Relax, Paco. La Raza has ethnic gangs too@@julian5711

[@bigislander72]

Where is it that he said something like growing up he used to wish he was born Hawaiian because everything in the culture that was beautiful and good was...and being white was so undesirable. My feelings exactly growing up.

As a world-champion lifeguard dedicated to beach patrol and lifesaving, I have a policy of not rescuing surfers. Surfers knowingly embrace the perilous sea, risking their lives, and then anticipate that others will do the same to rescue them. It's important to realise that this is not Baywatch or Barbie & Ken world, or a Hollywood movie.🏴🏳🐬👍

[@StreetTruckinTitan]

I you dont show fear to a bully or stand up to him / them it takes away their power over you. You might get your ass kicked but its better than being a ongoing target. At least theyll have some respect to you and will move to another target.

[@islndaze]

1:24 interviewer looked dumbfounded, like Capt cook did that? I don't believe you lol

[@jansa940]

I am white and grew up in a town with mostly white kids. Guess what people got picked on and beat up all the time for a variety of things, not because of skin color. You always have a percentage of any group that is dysfunctional, more often due to their home life. That is why I don't like the trend today of catering to parents of children that have emotional and discipline issues. They used to send kids like this to a special school, for students with discipline problems. It's too disruptive to the education process and often you will have other kids following their bad examples.

[@clarkewi]

Great interviews.

[@azzamatic4190]

You don't know what it's like, being little, middle class and white

[@johaunallen5284]

Azzamatic you don't know what its like being black and living in the hood

[@pgmjoker]

Gotta love Ben folds

[@user-wk8co4vh4c]

@@johaunallen5284 "in the hood" lmfao

[@xfighterband265]

Try growing up in New York when Roots came out! you want a story I'll give you a real story!

[@alexcarter8807]

I grew up in Hawaii and when Roots came out we watched it every night on TV. At least to me, it was how people coped with being discriminated against etc., I found it very inspiring.

[@mrzed2349]

I'm a new Yorker . Everybody is brutal in our city. That's what I love about my city

[@jasonfernandez2035]

Where can I find the full interview? All I can find is clips from interview. I’d rather watch the full interview than a few minutes at a time...

[@franksantos8494]

Graham has an energy that puts his subject at ease, thus revealing their true self, great interviews and information, thanks!

[@WAYNETALK]

Frank Santos subscribe to me and I will subscribe back

[@sadiegirl5312]

My son went to Damien School a boys school, because we could not afford Punahou....bullied for 4 fricking years. It has affected him to this day. Racist! My son ws blond with white skin! EXACTLY!!! TRUE!!!!

[@ridjdnieksmw3834]

The go back to the mainland you’ll be the most privileged people there haole

[@LoganCharlesII]

1:25 How Graham is looking at him

[@stevenculliton9112]

Same here! Went to school on Oahu, 60s - 70s. Worst was Jr. High. I made friends with Larry Bertlemann , we had Wood shop together. He became what they called a Backer, I was seen with him, nobody screwed with me anymore.

[@johnhunt2390]

What is a backer?

[@stevenculliton9112]

@@johnhunt2390 A local that you are good friends with, that has your back if anyone Fucks with you, like a Bodyguard so to speak, word got around, then they usually left you alone. They didn't Accept you, just left you alone.because you were friends with So and So ! Helped Alot.

[@SuperElite27000000]

@@stevenculliton9112 Yeah ok, so when a non-white moves into a predominantly white area they should find a "backer" as well and just accept the same terms as you did (or is that different?)

[@stevenculliton9112]

@@SuperElite27000000 That was kid stuff, in school, along time ago.. I'm not sure of your parameters? I would say make some friends as soon as possible, don't distance yourself. That gives a Negative vibe. Had some White Neighbors move in the Neighborhood that wouldn't talk to Anyone, They quickly got labeled, Too Good, Or Snobs ! To me a Friend is a friend regardless of Race, when doing stuff i don't even think, oh! John is Black or Fred is a Mexican. I worked with Jessie for 15 years, went to each others house, partied, everything. Only thing I did lay a Joke or too on him that would for sure be considered Racist Today! He would just come back with something like, F--k you, Pollock ! But in trying to answer your question, I would try to Find Friends , Not so much as a Tough Guy Backer, so as not to be cindered a Outsider ? I'm sure it sounds easier that it really is ? There are Good and Bad People all over, all kinds, makes and models , The choice is Yours, how to proceed.

[@baguazhang2]

@@stevenculliton9112 Hawaiian society sounds way too rigid. If you're white, you can't prefer to spend time with yourself or your family. You need to have a relaxed looking attitude and appearance, or you give off a "bad vibe" and people hate you.

[@markbilodeau3312]

Graham you are the best every interview is beautiful

[@danlum304]

I'm part Hawaiian, dark skinned, and a surfer since small kid time. I took planny lickins from local guys too ... a dick is a dick no matter what their skin color is. But yeah, in the 60's haole kids could get beatings, just for being haole. I used to defend them against locals, if the beating was unwarranted and took more than a few shots for it. I invited my haole friends to participate in sports, which helped sooth things, especially f they were good at football, basketball, baseball, martial arts. Thank you Laird for choosing your words carefully in the segment, we have mutual surfer friends who are very strong Hawaiians who in turn have many close haole friends. There's strong respect. The difference between Laird and other loudmouth haoles, is that he reveres Hawaiians and their culture. Come to Hawaii and be disrespectful and you will get KO'd, no two ways about, no matter your color or where you came from. So tread very carefully.

[@SchuylerEByrne]

Laird has come a long way...proud of him. He's giving the "lifestyle" of being a surfer a whole new meaning.

[@princessruth9155]

Hes a bully he was in school and its people like u that make shit up that makes him even worse. Lyon is the pono brother.

[@todd92371]

" I threw him out the window..... it was one story of course." lol lol lol. Bad ass.

[@Californiansurfer]

I grew up in shepersvil Kentucky, I had same experience, but the whole south if your black or other racism is normal.

[@latinolawdog5067]

Racism is normal anywhere in the world where humans exist. Period.

[@georgejackson2631]

Which is why races should be kept separate.

[@davedave83]

kindy-garden

[@michaelbrewer9608]

I was a white kid growing up in Hawaii too. I can relate to all the comments below and to Laird's story. One thing I'm proud of now is my heritage and family line. Growing up in Hawaii, I only had my immediate parents. All the racism stuff, along with national PC trends, told me to stifle my European heritage. Now that I'm older, I'm proud of that.

[@salmineo4132]

Give the land back that was stolen!!!!!

[@LochNessax3]

@@salmineo4132 Modern people didn't take it. Go fight with the ghosts.

[@salmineo4132]

@@LochNessax3 what a weak argument....your ppl still benefit off all the lands and resources you stole ....and still steal! But play innocent.....the world knows exactly who you guys are!

[@Pasha_Sabbah]

You are proud of a heritage responsible for theft, slavery and ethnic cleansing of native people? You whites are indeed a weird group of people.

[@thepoopman7876]

@@Pasha_Sabbah you’re proud of a heritage that lost to the whites and still can’t get over it? You are a weird group of people

[@chrismak4859]

He just needs a big board with lots more rocker!!!

[@sharktooth2888]

Chris Mak that's right! Not one of Chandlers old man boards!

[@chrismak4859]

Shark Tooth 👍🏼👍🏼😂😂

[@kendogg8498]

Not for us surfer 🤣🤣

[@jamezrobertz8638]

You got a single fin mentality.

[@suzyh6633]

He’s just telling HIS story growing up period. If a person is a racist or filled w/hate it comes out, just read the comments.

[@99iwaena]

My young brother in-law was a part Hawaiian with blond hair blue eyes. One day I was passing the school and seen him walking home away from the school and crying! That’s when he told me he was bullied and picked on constantly! Well, on that very day it was the last-time anybody bullied him, once they found out who he’s related too. 🤙🏽

[@deanpesci5736]

I got plunked down in Ewa Beach as a junior in high school from California, and I can certainly relate. Borderline life threatening at times. Helped a lot when I met up with some of the other haoles in the hood that had been there awhile and taught me the needed survival skills. Ewa Beach was a tough place back then. Hawaiians, Japanese, Phillipino, Samoan, and every mix of them all. Freakin' crazy. You look at some guy in a way he perceives as not cool, which wasn't exactly hard to do, and it could mean an instant ass kicking. "Whatchyoufuckinglookingathaoleboy"?!!

[@8x167]

I’m Hawaiian but born n raised I the country side and we hate those ewa scrubs.

[@love_agapi_m3976]

You can get it trouble for breathing. I mean that literally

[@rabbitazteca23]

lmaoooo. I can just imagine them saying that to a white boy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@raidahh]

u fault cuhz, y u kam down here u haole boy

[@leesenger3094]

You giving me stink eye or what? You wan beef? I broke yo face haole boi! Ah the dreamy days of youth on the islands

[@bighawaiianpunch3534]

Respect to him ik he still respects Hawaii and our people I'm native Hawaiian dark skinned I always grew up having white friends most of the time my bestfriends I was never racist to people for the color of they skin lol but not all racist in Hawaii are Hawaiian tho I have a hapa friend who is Hawaiian and ukranian and he was called a haole by some local Filipino I was like wtf you are the haole non Hawaiians calling a part Hawaiian kid haole cuz they look white even tho they are the actual foreigners but ya man I won't lie tho I never had a problem with white people grown here they usually the bois but sometimes tourist can get irritating there is a difference of mindset of the haoles here and the ones in the mainland

[@Ashley-km4qi]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I feel like a lot of Asians feel an entitlement in Hawai’i just because their the majority? I am Asian too btw so I don’t mean it in a rude way but it seems like that’s the dynamic even though it’s not their land

[@blackwater7183]

@@Ashley-km4qi Same thing happening in the states. It's not technically their land but there is entitlement because white people are the majority.

[@coopzpak485]

I didn"'t know people from hawaii were like this.

[@DS40764]

Not all ,but some

[@garysnow1475]

In Hawaii whites get their asses kicked not just by the Hawaiians but by the Japanese and the Filipinos anybody really! In Southern California you get your ass beat by the Mexicans and blacks white people are victims everywhere. I'm sorry if that goes against The narrative of white gangs beating up on poor little minorities.

[@Xrplovr]

I bet barry wasnt getting beat down at Punahou

[@analopeee]

luckily he wasn't on Oahu lollll

[@anuetognaci1303]

obamayomama9 I was born and raised in Oahu , I’m 19 and was always seen as a Haole to everyone there. My own family on my moms Polynesian side would call me Haole too. I never really felt welcomed anywhere because of what I looked like and because I truly knew how everyone felt about me looking white.

[@pomoney34]

This is the way...(Manadalorian quote)

[@Hepkat11]

Clearly you are a survivor.

[@dennisrobbins7857]

We ALL experience the effects of bias and prejudicial treatment or mistreatment based on our physical characteristics at various times in life. I have light skin, light hair and blue eyes. From childhood through almost 7 decades on this planet assumptions about me have been made about my personal beliefs, my preferences, musical tastes, my assumed political beliefs, .... I've been included and excluded, invited to join in, or implicitly or expressly told to stay away based solely on individual perceptions and conclusions about me, based on my color etc. Physical altercations on public transit, bullied at school, invited to join and fully accepted into little cliques, promoted at work without merit, denied a chance to be heard, or conversely, granted an unearned legitimacy before I've spoken a view at all, ALL of us experience this and sometimes it's painful, .... we really don't know a person at all based on their appearance ...we've only seen the surface and the "who this person is" lies buried inside of that individual until we learn more..... that is life unchallenged and assumed

[@jahineverybody]

I can’t say how growing up there is, youth can be brutal, but as an adult I’ve has an amazing time with the locals. Granted, I’m white, but I’m very dark skin, Rasta, with long beard and dreadlocks down to my thighs… I have a great memory from a time I was surfing, and had stashed some coconuts I gathered, and half opened in the brush. Big group of locals see me get out the ocean. Say my prayers and thanks for being able to ride the sea.. go get my coconut out the brush, finish opening on a rock. And drink coconut.. they couldn’t believe. Call me over. I talk to the elders, they say “everyone come meet Todd. He a Haole but he act more Hawaiian then most of you” 😅😂🤣.

[@taivo5753]

I thought this was a Roger Federer interview 😮

[@coreyfalo3939]

I'm Puerto Rican and moved to Hawaii ..my husband is a huge Samoan who grew up here and didn't warn me about the racism..and I got called haole ( spelled wring) and had no idea what that was...I felt they were so dumb they don't know how to tell a white from a Hispanic so I didn't take offense..

[@libertydefenders8276]

Hispanics can be white. I think its you who is dumb if you don't know that SPain is a WHITE country. YOu look pretty white to me!!! All people are racist, especially jews and non whites. whites are lEAST racist people.

[@Lopezflies888]

Half white half Mex here....girl same LOL

[@Lopezflies888]

@@libertydefenders8276 Dam your ignorant as fk. Hispanics come from Native backgrounds, hence why alot LOOK Asian.

[@darrellpasion6933]

@Tim 0341 umm, you're wrong, they're actually some Puerto Ricans of full European decent that has no indigenous or african blood in them.

[@darrellpasion6933]

Its because you're a white Hispanic, if you look white youre labeled as a haole in hawaii it doesnt matter what you're nationality is.

[@gregorykillen4564]

As guy who went to a private school who went through the same thing, I can totally relate to Laird's experiences. I came from a older family with parents that had grown up overseas, and I was surrounded by the children of baby boomer morons, who had instilled little to no discipline in their kids. I just didn't get their infantile bullshit humour !!!!!!!! And I still don't !!!!! Anyhow, I learnt how to fight pretty quickly !!!!!!!!!!

[@noahbrooksphoto]

Hah wtf are you talking about

[@gregorykillen4564]

@@noahbrooksphoto The lack of responsible and accountable parenting that's evident in the children of baby boomers that's filtered down through the generations since, creating manifestly inadequate and irresponsibly self centred, materialistic, ego driven, pop culture centred, bunch of spoilt and selfish morons, who have since themselves married and now we've got the millennial generation !!!!!!!!!!

[@rabbitazteca23]

huh? Go sit down boomer before you break your back

[@sadiegirl5312]

YOU are the moron. Sick of being blamed for everything the millenials, Gen XEr, entitled little twits, just like you, seem to do. You who have pushed the effing mask crap, likely a moron in chief Biden voter. How ya, like that $6.00, $7.00 gas and $25.00 a lb prime rib!!!!!???? MOST BOOMERS VOTED FOR TRUMP WHO MADE ALL OUR LIVES BETTER UNTIL THE STINKIN DEMICRAPS STOLE THE ELECTION. IT WILL ALL COME OUT.

[@nathanieltrinidad5880]

bro you seem like a pic me, like, I’m not like my other peers. I call cap 😂

[@Hfvvhbbb]

kids are tough, but to bad they grow up and never mature, and illegally take other peoples homes and call it a state

[@skittlepuff]

It’s crazy to me they would be racist to white people who are seen as the more “beautiful” people and the majority who is not discriminated against in all other states. Maybe we should bring the racist Hawaiians to the other states so they know what it’s like

[@user-ug1dh1zy4v]

The Hawaiians would fair pretty well in comparison. When I lived on Kauai nobody local would EVER be convicted of "a hate crime" for assaulting a "Haole", as the whole fkn island IS FAMILY (includes police/authorities) in one form or another.

[@skittlepuff]

obviously not. look at all the discrimination that is being exemplified there to people with lighter skin.

[@user-ug1dh1zy4v]

@@skittlepuff Maybe you misunderstood. Locals are not convicted of crime in HI bc they never get charged (by buddy/fam cops).

[@dylanweinandflannery1406]

1:27 mark

[@pureposture]

Sounds like prison

[@TropicalGardenGuy]

Same thing happened to me!

[@anthonywike8042]

ended up surfing waves that knowone could hold a light too. Pretty sure that makes him a king or something in Hawaiian culture right???

[@joeblow1942]

I lived on Maui and Kauai and the racism towards whites was INTENSE.

[@robbingpetertopaypaul]

my kapunas would beat me and anyone who called me haole. this new gen is soft

[@TheBoss-gc1uk]

2:21 yes it did. His stuttering says it all 😱😬

[@stevenculliton9112]

Barry Satori doesn't ring any bells. That was a long time ago! Was friends with Mark Liddell and grew up/started Surfing with Buttons! Started school at Jefferson Elementary, cant remember the name of the JR. High? Wonder Why? Ha! I did 10th grade at McKinley and start of the 11th till we moved to Florida. Wow! Good Old Days!

[@caseylevins9900]

Steven Culliton If you went to Jefferson Elementary and McKinley High you probably went to Central Intermediate.

[@stevenculliton9112]

@@caseylevins9900 Thanks, That sounds like it. Was a Tough School, at least the first year. It was 1968,69 and 70?

[@stevenculliton9112]

@@caseylevins9900 Just remembered, I went to Washington middle, had shop Classes with Larry Bertlemann, became friends, that was helpful at McKinley later.

[@norrinradd8923]

It's a rude awakening Hawaii is a very racist state if you're not a Polynesian.......

[@DRUMNICOdotcom]

scrub.

[@bluetickfreddy101]

Bullying i feel builds some good character. From a guy who experience lots of it growing up. It was a common occurrence and think practically everyone at one time or another received their share.

[@danfloros4267]

LH..LEGEND

[@dats_krayzee]

If you’re a HAOLE. You should understand WHY the ANIMOSITY surrounds YOU. Especially if you’re a WYTE HAOLE. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@gregorykillen4564]

This guy looks fucking insane for 54yo. Shit he looks mid 30s if I didn't know any better!!!!!

[@subarutime5089]

I tgink when you do crazy shit it makes you more hamsome

[@prometheus5770]

sjw s never speak of this somehow

[@kt-tu6jl]

But Laird did the same shit once he became known in HS in Kauai

[@carloscantu5616]

Were they racist to him the same way the white man is racist towards anyone who’s darker or have a different cultures in the mainland ?

[@tillik1004]

Does that make it okay?

[@LittleCobra]

Two wrongs don’t make a right smdh 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@dinkleberg746]

of course not; they were worse

[@brennenlobitos9857]

Let me ask any race that came to Hawaii and felt that Hawaiians/Locals were treating them horrible in any way just imagine your home or country or birthplace was stolen from you and you just had to deal with it and also using your home or country or birthplace to market off all the resources for that persons or countries benefit how would you feel about that? Well you can’t because it didn’t happen to you it happened to Hawaiians

[@brennenlobitos9857]

You would feel angry at that race or country wouldn’t you so you must realize that locals from Hawaii hate races that come to our home treating it like it’s there home thinking they can do whatever the want to it. So you should stop complaining about being treated harshly throughout your life because Hawaiian were treated far worse then you ever was that there home stolen from them something that was precious to them you must put yourself in our shoes as well

[@brennenlobitos9857]

Also we hate that your complaining about how you were treated because it not like your race is dying that you race is nearly wiped out I truly feel that it hurts that you treat locals from Hawaii like we’re the bad guys just because you were bullied from a race that is nearly wiped out a land stolen for your own enjoyment truly disgusting

[@LittleCobra]

@@brennenlobitos9857 Stop trying to justify racism when theres other countries in this world that have gone through far worse than Hawaii and don’t have the same reputation for being nasty to foreigners.

[@brennenlobitos9857]

@@LittleCobra ok so a race that dying out isn’t important how is that not as worse as anything else but still foreigners can’t relate that there race is dying out or that there home was taken away illegally by a bigger country banning the language being learned our race Is dying out so is our language just because foreigners came here. Wouldn’t you be angry if a bigger county took your home and you had to deal with it i didn’t think so

[@brennenlobitos9857]

@@LittleCobra I wished that foreigners never came to this island at all

[@VGLV888]

☑️✅

[@eeeffert6042]

yet in surfing tons of racism; why no blacks surfing, Laird?

[@_________.]

Lack of diversity ≠ racism

[@johnhurst9534]

3 fights in Hana last 25 years because I am white, the last being Dec 2020

[@johnhurst9534]

Keep items of value out of vehicle sightseeing. If on dirt roads off main highway, don't stop to talk with anyone. You will be fine yes much respect to locals

[@ponokunitomo7700]

808 all day

[@oldschoolfoil2365]

As a Australian the british arrogance of captain cooks island damage lives on even in todays times.

[@honkeyness9427]

I’m Irish, the English induced famine does not live on even today.

[@heebadeeba7279]

Kindergarten

[@JOSWAY787]

That’s what happens when people don’t like you bc of your SKIN, don’t feel so nice now huh?

[@hhasslinger9601]

Sounds pretty immature to associate this guy with racist whites from many years ago. Its racist of you to assume that he is/was an oppressor.

[@JOSWAY787]

@@hhasslinger9601 ofcourse the same old comment again trying to turn the roles around. But from your pov you will never understand, the fact that millions of American kids go through this every day and nobody gives a shit but once a white man goes through it in Hawaii, he gets a whole tv interview about it.

[@Ashley-km4qi]

@@hhasslinger9601 from many years ago? There are STILL MANY racist whites. It’s funny how so many whites hate poc yet dream of coming to Hawai’i where pocs are a majority lol

[@tillik1004]

@@JOSWAY787 You seem racist

[@LittleCobra]

You sound like an absolute idiot by saying something like that! You’re just as bad as the average white man walking around being racist to innocent POC because of there skin colour.. something they physically can’t change. Grow tf up instead of adding more hatred to the fire. You fool

[@banking-cartelmedia-cartel7206]

I believe in human rights for all.

[@user-wk8co4vh4c]

aww isn't that wonderful sunshine

[@michaelspencer9605]

Hamilton playing victim. As if there was not one Hawaiian to embrace him as a friend or in the surfing world.

[@nonyobussiness3440]

Aloha what? Fuck that

[@spants1058]

Aloha oh ya, but let’s also celebrate a culture that breeds and promotes racism 🙄

[@quattro4468]

And this is not even considering the japanese who think themselves of royalty in hawaii.

[@craigpdyer]

They mentioned a lot of the issues on the island; however, they didn't go over the Hawaiian grooming gangs. It would have been nice to mention some of the things women need to lookout for in Hawaii.

[@mongolchiuud8931]

Whites getting a taste of there own medicine. Fun Fact over 70% of Hawaii is Asian and Pacific Islander. And they treat you how you treat them on the mainland..boo hoo

[@wankercranker]

own medeicine? so tell me how a KID who has done nobody wrong can get a taste of his own medicine? your just a flawed person with that mindset. go read some philosophy and broaden your simple mind.

[@rabbitazteca23]

Taking the sides of the Hawaiins... I am glad this aggressiveness towards rich mainlanders (mostly whites) is working to keep people out of Hawaii. Im sorry, my statements may come out mean or racist but all this aggressiveness serves as an outlet for all the injustices native Hawaiians faced from US's occupation. I would be pissed too if I were Hawaiian and we were being replaced by rich mainlanders from out of our ancestral home. Heck, even white-majority countries in Europe are up and arms with the increase in migration and fears of "The Great Replacement."

[@user-ug1dh1zy4v]

Nobody owns any land anywhere, regardless of how you may feel you are being replaced (though that does happen).

[@bengaliinplatforms1268]

@JOHN EDWARD BINAY Very strange that Hawains can be excused for violence, racism, rape and murder because of their cultural past. Yet when Whites merely complain they are being replaced it's in the mainstream media, and everyone must condemn it. The only people not allowed a homeland for their people are Europeans. Everyone else is entitled to be a majority in their nations.

[@honkeyness9427]

Does your sentiment include white people’s lands which are being invaded by on-whites?

[@gunnerhiro394]

Ask any non-white kid growing up in the south - mid west - colorado, oregon - even west coast like california - they've ALL experience racism - good that whites feel it too - in the US.

[@tillik1004]

Why is it good for someone else to feel something bad someone else went through? Should we all get cancer, too, so we know how cancer victims feel? Stupid.

[@dinkleberg746]

So what?

[@gomoses100]

Das how da public schools in da aina stay. Bumbye dey all come togeddah and be bf wen school pau or get reunion. Das if dey still kickin.

[@themadtitan8408]

something tells me if he had darker skin no one would give a shit.