

It is embedded in a native island culture that has endured colonization and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom by a group of American businessmen in 1893. The Hawaiian word 'haole' means 'foreigner' and 'white person' and has both neutral and derogatory uses. No 'haole' is ever going to live in our neighborhood.' 'The whole time, they're saying things like, 'You have the wrong skin color. 'It was obviously a hate crime from the very beginning,' she said. He was starting to do that when the attack happened, she said. 'We loved Maui we loved the people,' said Lori Kunzelman, describing how her husband planned to fix up the house himself. Kunzelman and his wife purchased the property sight-unseen after a foreclosure for $175,000 because she wanted to leave Scottsdale, Arizona, to convalesce in the idyllic tropical destination. Tensions began over a dilapidated, oceanfront home in Kahakuloa, a small village off a narrow road of hairpin turns and sweeping ocean views at the end of a valley on Maui, an island known for luxurious resorts.
