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Karapu Lit:  Karapu PukapukaĒtahi atu
Hampton, Virginia

karapu pukapuka karapu me ētahi atuĀHEA TE HIRANGA O TE KARAPŪ PUKAPUKA I TE KARAPŪ PUKAPUKA? Ina whakaingoatia "Ētahi atu."—Rātina mō ētahi atu mea-Te tikanga "me ētahi atu mea anō" me ētahi atu mea anō. Ā, whakapono mai ki a mātou, he nui ngā mea anō e mahia ana e tēnei rōpū!


Kāore te kupu "Ētc." e whakaatu ana i ngā mahi tāpiri katoa e mahia ana e koe. Kōrero mai anō.
Āe, he nui ā mātou mahi i tua atu i ā mātou hui karapu. Ka tautoko mātou i ngā hainatanga pukapuka a ngā kaituhi ... ka haere mātou ki ngā whakaaturanga pukapuka me ngā hakari ... ka tū mātou i tētahi pānui rotarota ā-tau ... ka koha mātou i ngā taonga me ngā ratonga ki ngā kura, ki ngā rōpū aroha me tētahi teihana reo irirangi ā-rohe. Ā, e aroha ana mātou ki te ...

Āe...tāria! Me hoki tātou ki ngā hainatanga pukapuka. Kei te tautoko koe i ngā hainatanga?
Ae! I tautoko mātou i tētahi hainatanga me tētahi kauhau mō te kaituhi a Tony Brown (Ngā mea i whakaakona mai e Māmā ki ahau) i te Whare Pukapuka o Te Whare Wānanga o Hampton, ā, i tautoko tahi mātou (me tētahi atu karapu pukapuka) i tētahi rōpū kaituhi pukapuka aroha i Te Whare Wānanga, tae atu ki a Donna Hill, me ētahi atu. Kei te tuwhera tonu ā mātou kaupapa ki te marea.

Ka haere hoki koe ki ngā whakaaturanga pukapuka, tika?
Āe... kua maha ngā wā kua tae mātou ki ngā Whakaaturanga Pukapuka o Harlem, Baltimore, me te Whare Pukapuka o te Runanga.

Ko te mea e kukume ana i a mātou ki ngā hakari pukapuka ko tō mātou aroha ki ngā pukapuka me te āhua me te wairua o te noho tahi me ētahi atu kaipānui. Ki a mātou, ko te tūtaki ki ngā kaituhi, inā koa ngā pukapuka e arohaina ana e mātou, he rite ki te tūtaki ki ngā whetu rongonui.

He aha te āhua o ngā Whakaaturanga Pukapuka?
He mea whakamiharo! Ko te Hakari Pukapuka Harlem—te whakaaturanga pukapuka Āwherika-Amerika nui rawa atu i te US—e whakaatu ana i ngā whare whakaaturanga neke atu i te 250, ngā atamira e whā, ngā kaituhi nui, te hoko pukapuka, te kōrero pakiwaitara me te whānuitanga o ngā whakangahau waiata. He kore utu katoa...ā, hei hunga e haere mai ana, ka uru atu mātou ki te hunga whakarongo mō ngā kōrero a te rōpū kaituhi, e whakapaohotia ora ana i runga i te pouaka whakaata pukapuka a C-Span. He tino ngahau!

Ā...he pānui rotarota ā-tau tāu.
Ka huaina e mātou ko "Te Rerenga Toi i te Nekehanga," ā, ka whakanuia e mātou tēnei hei whakanui i te Marama Whitiāhua ā-Motu.

Kei tētahi wharekai, ā, e tuwhera ana ki te hunga katoa e hiahia ana ki te whai wāhi mai. He tokorua ngā kaitito kei roto i a mātou: kua whakaputaina e Alfreada Brown-Kelly tētahi pukapuka rotarota — Te Hurihanga o te Hinengaro, te Tinana, me te Wairua; ā, kei te mahi anō hoki a Gerard Corneille, tētahi atu mema, i tētahi pukapuka rotarota.

He tino nui tōu aro ki te tuhituhi. He wā tōu ki te pānui pukapuka?
Āe...āe. Anei ētahi o ngā mea i pānuihia e mātou i te tau kua hipa:
Sula
Ratou
Te Wāhi e Toto ai te Raina
He Poto Engari he Whanui te Ora
Ngā Tuahine me ngā Tāne

He tino pai ki a koe ngā mea katoa?
He maha ā mātou tau i ngā tau kua pahure ake nei:
Mea Mate nga mea
Te Kanikani o Ngā Wirou e Tangi ana nā Gloria Mallette
Ngā Wahine a Douglass
Te Tangata i Toku Raro
Te Aranga o te Hau
Ngā Pō Paraire i Honeybee's
Te Tamaiti Pōuri Rawa
O te Aroha me te Puehu

He pukapuka kei te whakaoho i te tautohetohe ki te rōpū?
Āe, i kitea e mātou To Tatou Tino Tangata me te Hoe Orohia nā Austin Clarke i tino tautohetia.

He tauira tāne, wahine rānei koe. He rerekētanga kei roto i te āhua o te kōrero a ngā tāne me ngā wāhine mō ngā pukapuka—he rerekētanga rānei kei roto i tā rātou whiriwhiri? Ā, he karapu tāne, tāne rānei koutou?
I tīmata mātou hei tāne, wahine rānei—kāore rawa mātou i whakaaro ki tētahi karapu wāhine anake. Tekau mā rima mātou...ā, kotahi anake te tokorua kua mārenatia, ko Norris rāua ko Barbara Lamb. Nō reira, kāo—ehara mātou i te karapu tāne, wahine rānei.

Mā te noho o ngā tāne ki te karapu ka whakaoho ake i ngā pātai me ngā whakautu māmā rawa atu a ngā ira e rua. Ka kawea mai e ngā tāne he kete hou ki te taiao. He kare ā-roto, he kōrerorero hoki ngā wāhine, ā, he pai ki a rātou te tātari i ngā mea katoa. Ka pupuri tonu ngā tāne i a tātou ki te kaupapa e wātea ana.

Āe, he rerekē ngā momo pukapuka e whiriwhiria ana e ngā tāne—he KORE-PŪRAKA.Ngā whakapae kua whakamanahia—te etita.]

Hei whakamutunga, i runga i NGĀ MEA KATOA...ka uru koe ki ngā mahi atawhai.
Ka koha mātou i ngā koti ki te YWCA o te rohe, me ngā taputapu kura ki ngā kura tūmatanui o te rohe. Ka mahi tūao hoki mātou i tō mātou teihana Reo Irirangi Tūmatanui, WHRO.

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