Blu's Hanging Controversy

I agree with the article Lois-Anna Yamanaka and the Non-Award a Postcript. Yamanaka's work allows her to relate to students about "things that are important to them". She encourages them to write about what they are interested in and not hold back. Her writings are powerful and give a voice to Hawaiian people. Yamanaka's work does display profanity and vulguar situations but it's real life. No matter how parents and administrators try to shield their children and students from controversial writings they can't always protect them from the cruelty of reality that can bring pain if their not aware of it.

I disagree with Augusto Fauni Espiritu who wrote to the AAAS Board. He claims that Yamanaka's writings are racist sterotypes that represnt him personally in a "unacceptable manner". I believe that Yamanaka presents the issue of racism between the people in Hawaii that already exists. Her writings bring racism and sterotypes that are common to the forefront so that they can be faced, discussed, and revealed in the public eye. The writers choice of content has the power to relate to a wide audience in different ways, it causes the reader to self evaluate and consider the perspectives of others that are different from them in status,economics or race.