Ms. Fawcett,
Using terms like "non-white people" and "old white guys" and making them an antonym for "local" is divisive. I have paid taxes for 33 years in Hawaii and always vote and retired from the  State of Hawaii civil service and believe my voice is as local as yours. I don't think your journalistic credits should include "grew up in Honolulu" for example I do not know where Walter Cronkite grew up.