Desmond Kekahuna Hawaii

is a fictional character on the American television dramedy series Sanford and Son. The character's birth name and later aliases are Dick of Honolulu, Dick Kahanalelea and K.K., the last two aliases being variations of his real first name. He was portrayed in four seasons by Raymond Michael Hall. In 2012, production began on a sequel to the show with Richard Dreyfuss as his son Bill, followed a year later by director Johnny Lee Miller as Max Holloway's husband Frank Holloway, who had been introduced during season three.

Having risen early from humble beginnings in Honolulu as the sons of an Irish immigrant and a Korean American missionary, Desmond grew up in the "Shanghai" section of Washington Heights near the East River in Lower Manhattan where blacks and Hispanics were mixed. Since they looked upon each other, he assumed that black people were essentially Asians (even though they weren't), and was treated by most Hawaiian males as their property. His father died when the boy was 16 years old, but his mother remained unmarried. While attending boarding school in England in 1888, she met and married another young Englishman named George Smith McCausland. George would support her with money he earned in Bermuda, while Desmond continued living at home. After World War I, an Italian friend persuaded Desmond to return to the United States for college at the University of Oklahoma. During this time period, an Italian youth group was established in Oklahoma City organized to teach "negro children" how to speak Italian. When Desmond returned there, several meetings would include Black Italians preaching to them regarding race relations and civilization. Desfore entered Harvard University before graduating because it was cheaper than going overseas to Oxford or Cambridge. After he graduated in 1914, he went out-of-state to attend Cornell, where his African ancestry served him well. However, after class one day he overhears the chairman, the white professor Hetherington, calling a meeting with all the men. This leads him into a fight which ends with the lecture stop due to his lecturing too loudly on a subject Hetherington does not want discussed under such circumstances: the wrong way to dance—belly-dancing. Before walking back to his dormitory Desmond reads the news and discovers that he has been declared non-Hispanic Mexican by the officials.