@mmiwhoismissing

class="content__text" We stand with @decolonizefeminism family, & supporters. “For the last couple of months, Laguna has been upset about having to rehearse the song “Lincoln is my hero” for his school’s annual Lincoln Day. He had seen a Youtube video once that separated the man from the legend of Abe Lincoln—a man who directly facilitated genocide against Natives like him and argued that Black people could and should never be equal to whites. Laguna told his teacher he did not want to participate and tried to sit out the practices even though it alienated him in the classroom. It wasn’t about him personally boycotting but him wanting to stop his school from celebrating a colonizer on Native land. He told us last night that he wanted to protest the event by holding a sign and chanting to teach others the truth. So Kaniela and I decided to stand with and protect our boy today. He was met with hundreds of people screaming fuck you, fuck off, and other obscenities at him, a grown man ripping his sign to shreds and attacking Kaniela while holding our baby, and armed escort out. Here is what Laguna chanted that was so enraging: NO LINCOLN DAY CELEBRATE HAWAIIANS CELEBRATE FILIPINOS CELEBRATE OURSELVES Maraming salamat @sonofoahu “

February 13, 2023