The longtime firebrand Honolulu mayor can best Chicago’s Richard J. Daley.

I took in the scene, and suddenly, I saw not just the present but the past.

This endorsement is personal and not in my capacity as an officer of any civic organizations, publisher and writer of any publications, director of a social service provider, elder of a Church.

Being born and raised in Hawaii, I couldn’t escape the fact that I was born in the waning shadows of a very American brand of apartheid.