Former Hawaii Lawmaker Bob Nakata Dies At 80 - Honolulu Civil Beat
The Oahu pastor was also a community organizer well known for his advocacy of affordable housing. Reading time: 4 minutes.
The Rev. Bob Nakata, a former state legislator and activist, died Monday at a care home in Honolulu.
Nakata, 80, served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1983 to 1986 and in the state Senate from 1999 to 2002. He also served as the pastor at Kahaluu United Methodist Church from 1980 to 1989.
“Bob was a community organizer and he stood for social, economic and environmental justice in a strong and gentle way,” said Mike McCartney, who served with Nakata in the Legislature. “And when the community needed a friend, he was there for the people who could not help themselves.”
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West accused the university of spiritual rot. How sad it is to see our beloved Harvard Divinity School in such decline and decay, he wrote in a letter. The disarray of a scattered curriculum, the disenchantment of talented yet deferential faculty, and the disorientation of precious students loom large.
Harvard denied him an opportunity to receive tenure, the indefinite academic appointment that makes it extremely difficult to remove professors.
The resignation also comes as concerns about how academic institutions treat Black scholars were made. West, graduated from Harvard and earned a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University, and taught at Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Union Theological Seminary over the years. In 2002 he left the school after a public dispute with Harvard s then-President Lawrence Summers, but rejoined in 2017.