{"id":161365,"date":"2021-07-18T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T03:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161365"},"modified":"2021-07-18T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T03:28:26","slug":"olympic-surfing-exposes-whitewashed-native-hawaiian-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161365","title":{"rendered":"Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some Native Hawaiians, surfing\u2019s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo Summer Games, which open July 23, serve as a proxy for that unresolved tension and resentment, according to the ethnic Hawaiians who lament that surfing and their identity have been culturally appropriated by white outsiders who now stand to benefit the most from the $10 billion industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had Native Hawaiians in the background being a part of the development of it and just not being really recognized,\u201d said Isaiah Helekunihi Walker\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiitribune-herald.com\/2021\/07\/14\/hawaii-news\/olympic-surfing-exposes-whitewashed-native-hawaiian-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some Native Hawaiians, surfing\u2019s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland. The Tokyo Summer Games, which open July 23, serve as a proxy for that unresolved tension and resentment, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161366,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161365\/revisions\/161366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}