When times were good, the group rivalries may not have mattered that much. But times are not good. Hawaii's economy has been stagnant for nine years. Thousands of jobs have been lost. The number of needy has increased, while services for the needy have been cut for lack of funds.
Families are under stress.
People are suffering. We need to come together and take dramatic steps to make life better for our people. There were a lot of servant leaders here in our islands during the Democratic Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. What we need now is a new wave of servant leaders who will bring us together and move Hawaii forward in the new century. Kent Keith is a community leader at the YMCA of Honolulu.