remember 2020? what was that like? 20, 30 years ago? we were living in lockdown, wondering if it was ever going to end. and some of us just wanted to get away. but there was nowhere to go. borders were closed. even hawaii was locked down. >> you're looking for a pandemic retreat. the governor of hawaii says don't look here. >> for the first time in a long time, the islands could just breathe. and the locals got to experience hawaii in ways it hasn't been since first contact? but then -- we're back, baby! give me a mai tai! ♪

♪ >> i said it before. it is weird that hawaii is a state. it is way far away from the other 49. hawaii doesn't look, feel, or operate like the mainland, and covid proved that. hawaiians handled covid way better than us mainlanders. while tourists weren't allowed in, many americans took advantage of the fact that no one said you had to work from home in your home and they relocated to hawaii. maybe because of the covid thing but also, because of all this. and because of a lack of tourist dollars, the government of hawaii encouraged people to rel relocate. >> movers and shoppers is a group that aims to bring people to hawaii.

people get a one-way ticket if they stay for at least one month and will connect with other professionals. >> lots of people consider it, like this guy. but me and my wife couldn't make sense. remember, i was there and i learned too much. >> everything is not okay. >> colonizers feel so entitled. >> so the hawaiian government sent out a warm welcome said give us your tired and overworked well paid masses. but native hawaiians were saying something else. not to steal from terry bradshaw but i couldn't help but wonder, can you go to hawaii and not be an asshole? is it possible to move to hawaii or even visit and have a good time and not piss off hawaiians? there is something we have to do first. get our minds right and our souls. this person is an educator and consultant who has worked to go improve the visitor industry for

over 20 years. we just had a blessing for the crew that you performed. we didn't do it. it's not for tv. it's for us to have that experience. i want to ask you, why is it important that that blessing was performed? >> it is a cleansing. so that influences all the great work that you're going to be doing hear in the islands. >> she works directly with the hawaii tourism authority and regularly does blessings like this. she navigates the temperatures between tourists and locals and it can be summed up in one word. aloha. a word most tourists means believe hello, goodbye, and where's my mai tai? >> this is about the uneasy relationship between how hawaii is marked to the world and how native hawaiians feel they are treated as it is happening. even last night, i went out to get some food and i could feel this tension of like, people

wanting their version of the vacation. >> yeah. so i'm from a place called hilo. when things started to open where people could come, that's when there was this massive amount of people that moved to hilo. because the land is really inexpensive. in comparison to other places in hawaii. and my mom is seeing these people and she was not happy. >> yeah. >> because of the intent, right? it was the intent that i need to get out of where i'm at. i need to go someplace with beautiful weather and beautiful scenery, and not really worrying about the culture. and my mom works at rental car places. she's always smiling. she gives the best customer service. people write about her. for her to feel that energy was important for me to hear. >> sort of in some sense treating had a way the way people used to treat the suburbs. i need to move out of the city where nobody is and build my perfect house. but there are actually people out here. >> yeah! so that is what may mom was

catching. her innate inner aloha was feeling that from them. so i'm a real advocate about helping them connect. get some classes. meet somebody that you can ask questions and then their experience will be the best experience. for not only them but for hawaii, too. >> i think about that a lot. i've been here with my wife melissa and our kids a few times. they're even here with me now. but the whole native culture for my entertainment thing has always rubbed us the wrong way. we do love hawaii and we want to figure out how to do it better. if there even is a way to do it better. step one as always is listening to the people who have a stake in it. i sat down with three native hawaiians on waikiki beach. a tourist spot. they are world class surfers here are continuing the native tradition of this sport. >> surfing is something that is

passed along. i think you can see it throughout the islands. we bring our children to the beach and we put them on surfboards. >> it seems like it would be a tough place to surf if you're a local. it looks like the dmv of the ocean. >> when you grow up here, you learn to navigate your way throughout all the people. sfwh so is this beach always like this? >> always. never seen an empty waikiki kuhio beach like when covid happened. hawaiian families that don't normally come down here because it is so crowded, they got to enjoy waikiki clean, beautiful beach. it was amazing. within a month, the ocean life restored itself. fish that i've never seen in my life that come in schools. >> we cherished that moment so, so much. that is what hawaii could have been. there is nobody here except for hawaiian local families.

>> it's like little rules, too, that you have. when we see another family at the beach, we don't sit in front of them. it's like, you're connecting with the ocean. with your family. but here, they'll see you. oh, there is a better spot right in front of you. >> isn't that the whole problem of just tourism as it is currently constructed? that it is about me? i'm going to hawaii with may family and we want to have our hawaii experience. i'm only here for six nights and seven days. and so during covid, what was it lake? >> we talk about it all the time. there's a weird dynamic that it was great. people got to enjoy things that they haven't with their family. yet, we need to go back to work. >> this is the factory. the town factory is tourism. >> yeah. it is a conversation to be had amongst people we know. >> what happened during the pandemic is that people started coming here, to remote work, for

a little while, or whether it is to move. and i was one of those people, i don't know. i don't know if it is possible to move to hawaii even with the best of intentions and not be an asshole. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> who is going to answer this one? >> you come and you have the privilege and the entitlement to come live here. there are so many hawaiian that's are leaving to go to las vegas because it's called the ninth island. there are so many hawaiians there. it's sad that my people have to move away but you can come in. to rent is through the roof. it's hard. to own a home where it starts at a million dollars. it's impossible. it's crazy. >> as we all know, real estate prices have gone up across america during the pandemic. in hawaii? prices have shot up 36%.

mostly because the haves have decided they want to have hawaii. and it is happening around the country. this all means the most economically vulnerable folks, usually native hawaiians, end up displaced or houseless. >> you can go somewhere. a lot of us can't. economic reasons or agricultural reasons. this is where we believe from the plant came us. how will we leave? i'm from another island. and we're seeing this island is just getting so overwhelmed. 10 million people a year, tourists, with the 1.2 residency. it is like 11 million people he have area. that's like 11 million shits going into the water. think about it. >> with that colorful image floating in my mind, it is time to get in the water for my first surf lesson. >> if you can, take your left foot and put it in between, around hear. you can twist sideways. you let go of the rails and turn

sideways and stand up. just like that. >> that's it. >> and i'm surfing. too easy! so easy! why do people make such a big deal about it. people act like it's easy. i did it. oh, now we're going. that was easy. oh, wait. we're getting in the water now. whoo! >> now you can lay on top of it. let's see how your balance is. >> okay. i'm turning. >> hold on, hold on. you're getting radical. >> here we go. >> oh! >> remember!

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a detour. my detour guide is kyle, university of hawaii ethnic studies election ever lecturer. our first stop is camp smith, a u.s. military base. because i know how to show my wife a good time, i'm taking her with me. >> that's chivalrous. >> melissa, mma, ph.d. the brains behind the organization. she came to hawaii with her family a few times as a kid but she never saw this side of the island. few tourists do. >> if you come up here? >> no, never. >> i don't know that we left the resorts. >> kyle created this detour for his university students and visiting academics. it shows how deeply rooted the u.s. military has been in hawaii and how most visitors have no idea how that affects the people of hawaii. >> in 1872, general john schofield came to hawaii masquerading as tourists to do

reconnaissance on a suitable military location. he looks down and sees what most people would today know as pearl harbor. and what the hawaiians had built, this engineering marvel of agricultural, he said it is valueless. but this is the key to the central pacific ocean. this is where the idea that hawaii only exists for other people. >> its value is how we value it. >> that makes it much tougher to tell the story. people already have an idea of what hawaii is to them. so this notion of aloha spirit is like a come pulsory hospitality. >> you're not doing your culture right if you're not nice to me. >> and aloha is such a deep concept for hawaiians. it means the exchange of breath or life. it is about mutual responsibility. >> there is something that hits so deep thinking about it as an exchange of breath in covid era. when we are all suddenly aware in a really different way of

what our breath holds, like the danger that is there even in well-intentioned action, you know. so i'm so glad that you shared the meaning. i don't think i knew that. >> this is the palace, the seat of the hawaiian government. we stop here on the detour because it's the scene of the crime. where the overthrow takes place. it is where u.s. troops rolled up on the palace and instigated the first regime change. >> how many years after the undercover tourist was that? >> about 20 years. >> so this is where the broken relationship begins, between the united states and its military, and people in hawaii. >> more and more mainlanders have been moving here because it's an easy place to escape. we saw that movers program. >> yaefrlt it is a very

problematic program. it is a colonialism super charged with social media so that you can be a digital nomad and occupy this space. meanwhile the people of this land can't afford it. >> and they can't move to the suburbs, the ocean. there is no place go the. >> people are homeless in their own homeland, struggling and surviving as best they can, and often that means affordable housing is living in your car or under a blue tarp tent. your kids are going to school. you got a job but you can't afford a place to live. >> the last trim to hawaii? >> i think the whole idea of tourism itself is a problem. for people who want to come and experience it and take it away. and i think there's another way, when you go somewhere and you're going into someone's home, you ask permission. you bring gifts. you don't come empty handed. >> you clean up after yourself if you make a mess. >> you leave it better than it was and you come with some kind of welcome. so maybe that is something that

people who are in that industry could look at. if there was a way to bring visitors who want to be responsible -- >> totally. >> who want to give back rather than just take, we need a way to do that. that's sustainable. >> at every step of the detour, we see the way the mainland uses hawaii for the benefit of the mainland. our next step shows exactly how the military affects the people every day. >> so welcome, known as red hill. within this mountain are 20 enormous fuel tank that's the navy built in secret during world war ii before the 200 million gallons of fuel is inside this mountain. the thing that makes it really troubling is that it sits 100 feet over the aquifer that supplies most of honolulu's drinking water. from 1947, there have been multiple leaks. about three weeks ago there was a spill of about 14,000 gallons

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some folks don't think the experiences really happen until they share it on social media. the whole picture didn't happen thing. when it comes to hawaii, it starts to feel like digital colonialism. posts create the idea that it is some untouched, undiscovered land. people post about secret beaches. it is only a secret to you. people live there! these posts cast hawaii as a perfect play ground for tourists and transplants instead of somebody's home. so some native hawaiians have decided to flip the script and tell the real story. meet a native hawaiian.

since the pandemic started, she's been using tiktok to share her perspective on all this and more. >> this is the problem. that's all people view hawaii as. someplace where people to go vacation. people live here. the way of life and values as well as the exaggeration of the betrayal of our locals. it is dehumanizing. >> they have flan, too? >> there were a lot of mexican immigrants here. a lot of asian immigrants from china, the philippines and japan. >> my goodness. there you go. >> oh! have you ever had anything? >> no. salty and sweet? >> salty, sweet, a little bit of tangy. >> it's a taste explosion. it started in the pandemic. a lot of people used hawaii as

an escape. >> exactly. >> then they went to social media to say look at my wonderful undiscovered country. >> like i saw that so many times. and every time it triggers me. that disparity between what is shown on social media, like look at all these beautiful beaches. whoever lives here must be so lucky to live here. and we are. we are lucky to live here and we love this place. but there is a whole other side of the story. it's hard to survive. it is hard to pay for food. have you seen a gallon of milk is $10. i make videos about that. i make videos laying out facts about these things. hawaii having the highest cost of living. the median living wage in the u.s. is about $67,000. in hawaii, it is $136,000. >> yep! as we talked about before, hawaii, a land so fertile it literally grows rocks, imports 80% of everything it sell.

and corporations pass all those shipping costs on to hawaiians. so as new settlers drive in for supplies, the already high cost of living in hawaii continues to climb. that means regardless of the newcomers' intentions, there will always be a real life negative impact on locals. >> is it possible to move to hawaii and not be an asshole? >> so that's my question? >> yeah. >> oh, man. i think in current times, especially if you know better, especially if it was a choice, no, there is no way to move to hawaii in my personal opinion, and not directly be a part of what contributes to our harm. i mean -- >> i guess your t-shirt answers the question. >> it really is, no the maer what you're taking up space. >> even if you're touristing. >> if you're touristing, you're just directly contributing to an

industry that commodities our culture. it tell us what part of us are pretty but we're your servers. we're here to entertain you, to take care of you, andist judge give, give, give. you don't give anything back because you paid some white man in hollywood a couple thousand dollars to come stay here. >> and before you shout out, what about all that tourism money? aren't they jobs? first, stop yelling. the truth is -- >> the money we see from that is what we get in our wages which are not living wages. so yeah, in my personal opinion. i'm sorry. >> i have my family here. we are here for like four more days. >> i don't look at you guys and think, all you [ bleep ]. >> language! i understand. i do it sometime to people. when it's my turn to -- [ bleep ]

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. while it would be great to say that the pandemic has forged new healthier relationships between the tourism industry and the workers who make the industry go, not so much. because while occupancy rates in hawaii are nearly back to pre pandemic levels, several of the largest hotel chains have cut

back on their services and ha amenities and they've laid off workers. but the workers need to make a living and today they're letting everybody know. this is still america for now. ♪ unionized hotel workers are out here doing two things. demanding their jobs back and making sure that hotel guests know, even though the hotel guests aren't offering daily room cleanings, they're still charging them for them. >> my husband has been coming here since like 1981. he's much older. >> oh! so where are you all from? have you been to hawaii before? how long have you been married? >> to this one? >> to this one. you don't work in the hotel but you have the sign. what happened? >> they didn't clean my room up this morning. >> yeah.

that's one of the best things about staying in a hotel. you go in there. >> when we checked in on monday we were told there were no housekeeping services. so there must not be people who want to work. i've been in the hotel business for 35 years. >> so you're not a random yahoo. >> no. they need to understand how much the hotel business is suffering right now. it is rebounding faster than expected. >> yay! >> i don't say you in your hotel business, but sometimes don't major corporations use major events as a way to save some cost cutting? not you but -- >> yeah. you're totally right. and they might have been overstuffed before. so maybe it is a good time to do some dialback a little bit. >> but then what do people do for like, eat and pay rent? >> okay. i wish i had the answer. >> people think, if i'm not

getting the service i want, it is the hawaiians' fault. >> and that was the way it came across, sadly. i ran hook, line and sinker. i didn't have any information. sfwlf i think you were just woke. you got woke. you got woke. i don't know you feel about that. >> a moment of clarity, perhaps. >> you can call it what you want but it is an awokening. i feel like i'll run into you in a year and you'll be over there in a year with a red shirt with a hawaiian flag. >> thank you. >> i just did that. >> despite what work theers say, the hotels argue that the demand for services isn't there. and the result is some folks have been out of work for over two years with no idea of when or if they will return. >> this is papaya.

pickled papaya. >> do i put on it top in. >> no. just to the side. >> after the protest, i was not v , i was invited to dinner. in my mind i thought if i didn't have my room cleaned every day, i was giving you a break. but the more room that say don't clean, the less people they have to employ. >> that's a message to the guests that we need to clean their room every day so they can get what they have paid for, and by doing this, they can help the workers come back to work. >> they want to make more money. right now, they let them do it. it's free but later, we don't know. maybe that is where the corporations are headed. if any guest wants to have room service, they have to pay already. >> so hotels will become like spirit airlines where they start charging you for every little thing. >> a lot of guests doesn't know what's going on out there.

and i had one housekeeper out there that is not going to have enough income to buy food and put it on the table for their kids. she still don't have a job. >> since the pandemic, i never got my job back yet. we even lost the unemployment benefit. >> really! >> never get anything anymore. and i have to like, i'm a single mom. >> i'm the son of a single mom. >> i'm a single mom. when i lost my job, my hours, it is so hard for me. because you know, i think about my kids. i have to start over. it's really hard. >> i can pay my bills when i'm in the hotel job. when i'm in the rental job, i have to work two jobs, three jobs. >> it doesn't pay enough. >> it's been almost two years. mary is not alone.

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>> it wasn't that though. it wasn't. i was vice chair of public safety. and my chair was for private prison. i was against it. and she was the only person on her side against it. when she testified and it was the most poignant beautiful testimony, what? whoa! i looked at her. and it was instant love. so that's my side of the story. >> he was the man, yeah. >> i guess i would describe cara and him as the beyonce. they left to become an organizer and he is a vocal critic of nonhawaiians coming here to displace natives. cara on the other hand has gone on to work inside the system as director of hawaii on the status of women. they use social media to deconstruct people's colonial way of thinking. they know it ain't all posts and

clicks and likes. some of the work means your boots get stuck in the mud. oh! that's not a metaphor. i'm on a 405 acre of land. the mission here is to revive sustainable and life giving native hawaiian agriculture. >> there is a conversation ongoing. do we have political sovereignty or economic freedom? but independence can start right now with our own actions. what if we had our own land and we could live the way our ancestors did, where we can rely on 90% of our food to be imported. we are sustainable. we aren't causing climate calamity. and we've tried. >> it is okay for me to step in here? >> yeah. >> when you have a project like this, it shows, what could we do if we left it up for local people and native people to share our future? >> the bigger ones are grown up

to eat. these little ones, they're like big enough where you can pick them up and replant them. >> taro is a statementle of the haw hawaiian. they are restoring what was once the bread basket of hawaii. >> the plan is the original ancestor. some of these plants, pull it, harvest it, clean it, and you replant it. and we could be harvesting taro that has been replanted hundreds of time. so we can have a world that rebuilds itself and we're not just completely destroying and that extends beyond land rights. >> so your family is native to the island? >> yeah. our ancestors go back at least seven or eight generations that we can trace.

that was tapped into my leg. that is my entire bloodline. so they're with me wherever i go. >> tell me about your family history. >> i have a different relationship with this place because i come from an immigrant household. specifically filipino. for the first decade they would be considered trafficked. there's a recognition that this is somebody's homeland. >> and native hawaiians, we have a responsibility to realize that immigrants have the responsibility. it is the people and the power that have caused the same sort of trauma to immigrants and indigenous people alike. >> so what is it like to be on this land? to know what the dream is here? >> it is an island of sanity. we're expected to brush aside the truth about had a buy in our day to day lives. here we can be ourselves.

>> what they are talking about is going back to a way of life that worked for the people for thousands of years. >> people in tourism, what about the tourist jobs? okay. let's break these jobs down. you kind of zoom out. you realize that the system only works, tourism only works when the people who work here are poorer and weaker than the people who play here. it is a permanent underclass. >> that's a good point. and it runs across issues. there are dozens of stories about the connection taken with tourism and pain. because women are part of the vacation package. local women. and i feel like a lot of my job, too much of my job is protecting women from tourism and militarism in hawaii. i wish i didn't have to do that. we were taught that we have to know the difference between love and abuse and i think that that is part of the tarrist

conversation. people really want to come here. i love hawaii. but the relationship isn't healthy. >> is there a way to do this correctly that is not just exattractive? that is not just love? >> i don't like to put the bonus on individual families. it is not an individual consumer problem. the answer is probably not. there are things you can do. don't come as tourist. come as a visitor. it is accountability. >> it's squishy! >> look what you did. you got me moving again. thank you.

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with new settlers driving up rents and a 30% decrease in honolulu shelter beds because of covid, houselessness is as much a problem here as ever. last time i was here, twinkle board showed me around the community she has lived in for almost 20 years. >> this can be the answer to solve the problem out there for the houseless community. >> when i found out we were coming back, i knew i had to see

twinkle again. >> we still making a difference. >> this is truly a community. there are rules and responsibility. the you're a kid here, you best be going to school and bringing home good grades or drink l is going to school with you. >> oh, yeah. >> shortly after our last visit, the state of hawaii try today evict the residents. >> this came as a surprise to some readers of the encampment who had just met with the state last week. >> cnn has no plans for a sweet, the state continues to take plans to sweep, including sweeping neighborhoods all in this month. >> twinkle and her right-hand man said, that's what we're not going to do. they raised 1.4 donations to buy nearby land for a safe sustaining home for residents. it sounded impossible. well, today, anything is possible!

this is the first house you built? >> yes. if you look at traditional hawaiian houses, it was like that, you know. so it's going to look like traditional hawaiian village but just with modern materials. >> a lot more room in the tent. a lot safer than a tent. a lot more climate controlled than a tent. >> you want to go around this way? if you go around this way, you have to climb up the hill. >> let's go this way. for the camera crew. not because i'm lazy. >> this is the property line. a lot of people not happy with us, but a lot of it is out of fear with, and they're allowed to feel that way. so part of the plan is edible trees just around the whole border. so we're not going to put our stuff right up against -- >> up against that house right there so there's a little bit of a buffer zone. after my tour, i sat with dwing

l and other residents to hear about everything that's going on. >> people don't need money. you need food. you need shelter. we've just been taught the way you obtain these things is through money. so all of this is edible forest, coconut, mango, because money doesn't grow on trees. food does. people say you got to get jobs, you got to get educated. we know our community. some people, that's not going to happen. you get parkensons, get a better job? no. how do we bring down the cost of living enough so the money people have is enough to get by. >> his approach to houselessness is really how hawaiians took care of each other before us outsiders showed up and took everything. >> if you don't meet the requirement, they kick you out. >> so a shelter is a stop, it's

not a home. >> so raising up people, it's a task. it's a task. you got to come at different angles, but we have the relationship. i believe in them. >> yeah. you must have learned a lot from her growing up here. >> she always used to say you give blessings, you receive blessings. it may not be when you want it, but it will come unexpectedly. >> you don't even live her, right? what brings you here? >> i'm superman. >> this must be a calling or something because you don't have to do this, right? >> we don't treat each other with aloha anymore. we're not kind to each other. how can we implement this in our lives, found that aloha in her. i'm turning into a cry baby. >> that's okay. it's all right. we can cry, brother. it's raining. the rain is hitting your eyes.

yeah, yeah, we're tough. >> what people don't understand is most times when people meet twinkle, they're meeting her on the day they got kicked out of their house, on the day they lost everything, because usually the worst day of their damn lives and instead of saying fill out these forms, what is your income, she says, i got you. come home. no judgment. clean slate. i'll help you because i can. that's aloha. >> about to get some rain in my face. >> you know, when she said keep the noise down after 10:00, it's not somebody who was voted in, it's not somebody that bullied their way in, it's somebody that gave you everything she had on the day you lost everything asking you, please, keep it down after 10:00 and the dynamic is

different. imagine all of our leaders came to be leaders in that way. >> yep because when people do listen to their communities and work together, things can change for the better. and just like that, the military is finally closing the red hill start facility. >> native hawaiians say the shutdown is long overdue. >> and they hired one of its most vocal critics to direct the program and insisted in using locals to better immigrant transplants into the community. but this isn't just up to native hawaiians to fix. it's up to us too, those of us who aren't native hawaiians also got to get in this work because this isn't the world's largest report. this isn't america's vacation home. while it is a state, it is also the sovereign nation of hawaii,

and it needs to be for hawaiians first. ♪ >> if they can teach this guy to do this, then there's nothing they can't accomplish. >> all my people born in the city who don't live near the ocean, that's for you. whose town? >> our town. this week, i'm in seattle washington hanging out with the

red neck revolt, and now i'm talking to white people who want to end white supremacy. they're not doing it the way white people doing it and hashtaging it. they're protesting at a nazi tattoo shop. i'm going to get tattooed by nazis. ♪ ♪ what can i do? now that's a question i hear a lot from people in my travels during these hectic times, but if i'm honest, it's really a question i mostly hear from white people.