People of Hawaii -- Tear down this wall! Disband the evil empire!
By Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D. , 11/12/2009 1:02:38 PM
On November 9, 2009 the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In speeches in 1983 President Ronald Reagan began referring to the Soviet Union as "The Evil Empire."
On June 12, 1987 President Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall and shouted "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Two and a half years later the wall came down. Courageous people of East and West Berlin attacked the hated wall with their bare hands, hammers, small trucks, and forklifts. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wisely gave orders to keep the troops in their barracks and not defend the wall. Thus began a series of events leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the liberation of the captive nations of eastern Europe, and the end of the Cold War.
Today in Hawaii there is a wall of apartheid separating people by race. The wall has been built by Hawaii's own version of the evil empire -- a large group of powerful, wealthy institutions providing benefits exclusively to ethnic Hawaiians while walling out anyone who lacks a drop of the magic blood. Our evil empire has grown so powerful that it now demands federal legislation (the Akaka bill) to create a phony Indian tribe whose existence might protect the racially exclusionary institutions against lawsuits asserting they are unconstitutional.
Hawaii's evil empire began in 1921 with passage of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act that set aside 203,000 acres of land exclusively for the benefit of ethnic Hawaiians with at least 50% native blood quantum. The announced purpose of the bill was benevolent -- to give a helping hand to poor, downtrodden people by putting them "back on the land" with 99-year leases for homesteads or farms at a rent of one dollar per year. The help was also given to wealthy Hawaiians, because the only criterion for getting a lease was to have 50% native blood, regardless of economic status. But whether benevolent or not, it is plainly unconstitutional for government to give benefits based solely on race to a group of people who are not an Indian tribe.
Hawaii's evil empire was expanded with the incorporation of Alu Like in 1975 to provide vocational training and other special programs exclusively to ethnic Hawaiians having at least one drop of native blood. Alu Like then began receiving federal funding in 1976 from the Administration for Native Americans, even though ethnic Hawaiians are not an Indian tribe.
In 1978 the State of Hawaii held a Constitutional Convention which proposed many changes, including creation of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The amendment creating OHA passed by the smallest margin of any of the amendments on the ballot. Furthermore, it passed only because at that time ballots on which a voter left a particular question blank were counted as "yes" votes for that question. Twenty years later voters appeared to have approved a proposal to call a new Constitutional Convention until OHA, fearing that the people of Hawaii would abolish OHA, backed a lawsuit causing the Supreme Court to reinterpret the rule to require that there must be an absolute majority of all ballots cast (thus effectively making blank votes count as "No", and causing the proposal for a Con-Con to be rejected).
When OHA was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1978, a lawsuit was filed (Kahalekai v. Doi), in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Con-Con had not succeeded in creating OHA because the voters had not been adequately informed about the racial restrictions on voting, candidacy, and benefits in OHA; but the Legislature then somehow "fixed" the problem and OHA was created. OHA was founded on three pillars of unconstitutional racial exclusion: Voting for OHA trustees was allowed only for ethnic Hawaiians; candidates for OHA trustee had to be ethnic Hawaiians; and benefits distributed by OHA were for ethnic Hawaiians.
In 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Rice v. Cayetano that the racial restriction on who could vote is unconstitutional. Later that year the U.S. District Court in Honolulu (followed a year later by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals) ruled in the Arakaki case that the racial restriction on who can be a candidate for OHA trustee is unconstitutional. However, OHA continues to give benefits based on race because all efforts to have a court rule on that issue have been dismissed on technicalities such as "standing" and the "political question" doctrine.
How big is Hawaii's evil empire? There are two branches of the state government exclusively for the benefit of ethnic Hawaiians -- Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Department of Hawaiian Homelands. Court filings have provided evidence that OHA and DHHL cost the state treasury one billion dollars from 1990 to 2002, and were projected to cost an additional two billion dollars during the ten years thereafter.
But that's not all. There is also the state agency KIRC (Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission) which administers access and programs on the island of Kahoolawe until such time (described by state law) as the island is turned over to a Native Hawaiian governing entity recognized by the federal and state governments. There's also the taxpayer funded University of Hawaii Center for Hawaiian Studies, serving as a propaganda factory and recruiting agency for the evil empire, with headquarters at the flagship Manoa campus and satellite departments at all the community colleges.
But wait. There's more. In various court filings, and in the Akaka bill, OHA has stated that there are more than 150 (or 160) federally funded programs racially exclusionary for ethnic Hawaiians including such things as Alu Like, Papa Ola Lokahi, Na Pua No'eau, etc. Federal dollars flowing into Hawaii help the economy for all our people; but funneling those dollars through racially focused institutions for the benefit of racially exclusionary clientele gives tremendous political power to the evil empire.
In addition, Hawaii's largest private landowner, Kamehameha Schools (formerly Bishop Estate), has assets perhaps $8-15 Billion depending on how land is valued. All assets are supposed to support education, and a policy of the trustees (not required by the will of Princess Pauahi) requires all students to have at least one drop of native blood. The "school" maintains a large research division churning out "studies" to bolster the claim that ethnic Hawaiians are poor and downtrodden and therefore deserve government and philanthropic help.
There are other private institutions giving benefits exclusively to ethnic Hawaiians, such as the Queen Liliuokalani Childrens Centers.
Finally, there has been legislation in Congress for 10 years -- the Akaka bill -- to establish a racially exclusionary government for ethnic Hawaiians which would be authorized to negotiate for money, land, and jurisdictional authority. Thus the lands and people of Hawaii would be permanently divided by race.
The evil empire does not appear to be evil; it appears to be benevolent, to help people whose leaders claim they are poor and downtrodden.
What makes it evil is racial separatism -- an apartheid regime established by law. Hawaii's wall of apartheid is not (yet) visible as a physical structure like the Berlin wall.
Rather, it's a legal structure walling out anyone who lacks a drop of Hawaiian blood, preventing them from getting a homestead lease on government land; or getting benefits from OHA or 160 federally funded programs; or getting admitted to Kamehameha Schools. The most evil thing of all is the Akaka bill.
Hawaii's wall of apartheid might be destroyed brick by brick. The year 2000 saw decisions in two successful civil rights lawsuits aimed at OHA. Rice used the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to destroy the racial restriction on who can vote for OHA trustees, and Arakaki used both the 15th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1964 to destroy the racial restriction on who can run as a candidate for OHA trustee. But since then lawsuits to use the 14th Amendment to destroy the racial restriction on who can receive benefits from OHA and DHHL have been sidetracked by technicalities such as "standing" and the "political question" theory.
A lawsuit to prohibit the racial restriction for admission to Kamehameha School got all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and was awaiting its third conference wherein the Justices would decide whether to hear the case, when Kamehameha paid seven million dollars to the plaintiff child and his attorneys to "settle" the case and prevent the Court from hearing it. If the lawsuits against OHA, DHHL, and Kamehameha Schools are ever decided on the merits, the racial exclusions will almost certainly be overturned.
In 2009 a beleaguered State of Hawaii finally fought back against OHA's claim that the state has no right to sell any ceded lands without OHA's permission. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 9-0 decision clearly establishing that the state owns the ceded lands in fee simple absolute.
However, the state Supreme Court, to whom the case was remanded for further proceedings, later ruled that an ethnic Hawaiian plaintiff has a greater right to "standing" than non-ethnic-Hawaiian citizens, to complain about ceded land sales, on account of alleged special ties between "indigenous" people and the land. That issue will arise in future litigation that will become "ripe" if the legislature ever votes to allow the Governor to sell any parcel of ceded lands.
We cannot simply say "Abracadabra" or "Open Sesame" and expect Hawaii's wall of apartheid to fall down. Outside the courts, there is a simple way to start tearing down Hawaii's wall of apartheid.
Money is the mother's milk of politics. OHA is the primary political arm of the evil empire, and the main pusher of the Akaka bill. Since 1979 OHA has been funded by a law giving OHA 20% of ceded land revenues. That law was an ordinary law passed by the Legislature -- it was not required by the 1959 Statehood Admission Act, and it is not a part of the state Constitution. At any moment it chooses to do so, the Legislature could repeal that law.
Alternatively, the Legislature could reduce OHA's share of ceded land money to zero simply by passing a law to clarify that 20% of ceded land revenue should be interpreted to mean 20% of ceded land income after expenses. It turns out that the state spends more money to create and maintain revenue-generating capability on the ceded lands than the amount of revenue it receives. The public lands of Hawaii cost more money for the state to construct improvements and to maintain them than the money the state earns from fees and lease rents. Roads, schools, libraries, hospitals, and parks cost a lot of money and do not produce much revenue.
Either by repealing the law to send 20% of ceded land revenue to OHA, or by enacting a new law to define the 20% based on net income after expenses rather than gross revenue -- one way or another the state should cut off the flow of money to OHA, especially in this time of financial crisis when there's not even enough money to keep the schools operating on a normal schedule.
We can take inspiration from the words of President Obama, when he gave a campaign speech in July 2008 in the shadow of the Berlin wall. Mr. Obama said: "... the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. ... The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. ... Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but they have come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a way to live together; in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice; and in South Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people defeated apartheid."
The whole purpose of the Akaka bill is to divide the lands and people of Hawaii along racial lines -- to declare that the descendants of natives should be a hereditary elite with a racially exclusionary government walling out all who lack a drop of the magic blood.
Why should such an abomination be inflicted on us in the very place where King Kauikeaouli Kamehameha III proclaimed racial unity and equality as law? In the first sentence of the first Constitution (1840) of the multiracial Kingdom of Hawaii, the King wrote: "God hath made of one blood all races of people to dwell upon this Earth in unity and blessedness." Why should we now erect a wall of racial separatism in the land of aloha?
As I look at Hawaii's evil empire and our growing wall of apartheid, I say to President Obama and to the people of Hawaii: Tear down this wall.
Dr. Conklin's book "Hawaiian Apartheid: Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State" is in the Hawaii Public Library, and also at http://tinyurl.com/2a9fqa
REFERENCES
RICE V. CAYETANO (98-818) 528 U.S. 495 (2000) -- The right of citizens to vote, without racial restriction, in elections for OHA trustees Syllabus (unofficial) http://tinyurl.com/ye6am5q Decision (official) http://tinyurl.com/yeq75vw
Arakaki vs. State of Hawaii -- The Right to Run for OHA trustee, without racial restriction. Collection of some plaintiff legal briefs at both the U.S. District Court and 9th Circuit Court levels, plus news reports and commentaries. http://tinyurl.com/4t339
Arakaki v. Cayetano (became Arakaki v. Lingle after election) -- Seeking to abolish OHA and DHHL on the grounds they are unconstitutional. All legal briefs filed by plaintiffs and 5 defendants at U.S. District Court, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court; plus numerous news reports and commentaries. http://tinyurl.com/blhlc
OHA and DHHL Cost to State of Hawaii Treasury: $1 Billion 1990 to 2002. $2 Billion More Estimated for 2002-2012. See Spreadsheets On This Webpage for Details. http://tinyurl.com/62qs2
Open letter to President Obama regarding the Akaka bill (Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill) http://tinyurl.com/bl9rvv
Selling the Ceded Lands -- The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that the State cannot sell ceded lands without permission from ethnic Hawaiians; but the State appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court which reversed the state court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state owns the ceded lands in fee simple absolute. The state Legislature then passed a law probibiting the Governor from selling any ceded lands without approval from 2/3 of each chamber of the Legislature. See the original decision by Judge Sabrina McKenna in the state court; Hawaii Supreme Court decision; many legal briefs filed on appeal along the way; all briefs filed at the U.S. Supreme Court (both principals and amici); transcript of oral arguments; final decision by U.S. Supreme Court; final decision by Hawaii Supreme Court dismissing plaintiff Orosio; plus numerous news reports and commentaries at all stages of litigation. http://tinyurl.com/49sx9j
Kenneth R. Conklin, "Hawaiian Apartheid: Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State" (302 page book) http://tinyurl.com/2a9fqa
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I will quote a single paragraph from your advice at the Mabel Smythe Auditorium. Then I will express my reaction to the lack of clarity in your words.
"So where is the right of the State of Hawai'i, or a real estate developer, or a resort developer to destroy any of your temples, when these are your temples, this is your land, your right to worship is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration. I don't see that right any more, and indeed it will be hard for them to argue that right now that this law has been passed. ……….. Read through it and understand what your rights are, and proceed to assert them in your dealings with the State and Federal government."
The subject here being restoration, your approach here leaves Hawaiians on a level, one step removed from the action of restoration. Larsen v. the Kingdom seems more on the point than this approach you are using here.
I think I can carry 90% of my point in this very first sentence of yours. Your use of the word "right" here muddies the water. Allow me to paraphrase this sentence toward clarity: So where is the power of the State of Hawai'i, or power of a real estate developer, or power of a resort developer to destroy any of your temples, when these are your temples, this is your land, your right to worship is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration.
Point: Whereas restoration is a battle over powers, you are focusing Hawaiians on a battle over "rights". You are taking the Hawaiians to the wrong arena ! Larsen v. the Kingdom was the correct arena: The Kingdom has the power to protect my right to drive in the Kingdom without a drivers' license.
You seem to be sending Hawaiians off in pursuit of more and more rights as though rights can be accumulated to an amount that will arrive at power, domination, authority as the crowning achievement. This misunderstanding is making Hawaiians miserable. Hawaiians ask themselves "These 'rights' are not getting us to where we want to go; what's wrong ??" Well, even slaves have all kinds of "rights" but they also have masters along with their "rights".
Restoration is about having a government with authority, domination, and power to do battle with its own citizens even, malihinis, the U.S.A, the United Nations, etc. This is the road to Hawaiian happiness, an empowered government. Professor Boyle, how do we work to restore the power of our government; our "rights" seem subsidiary, not primary. We would be better off with our own government even if that government abused the "rights" of some, even most, Hawaiians. Lots of hated governments have existed. Teach us how to maximize, then expand the powers of our restored government. A powerful, dominating government will be able to do more for us than all the "rights" in the world.
Will "civil rights" agitation help restore the Kingdom government ? Black men and women love being Americans and the American government. They just want all their rights. Hawaiians, on the other hand, primarily are not interested in their "rights". You are portraying the Hawaiian movement as a "civil rights" movement. They are interested in the powers of their own government in the company of other national governments. What does it take to have the United States of America back off and respect the powers of the Hawaiian government ? What does it take to revitalize the powers of our government ??
Another quote:
"…., who has title to the land? It's the Native Hawaiian people who retain title to the lands of Hawai'i as a matter of international law. Not the federal government, not the State government, but the the people themselves."
A popular appeal. Better: Not the federal government, not the State government, but the Hawaiian government with the powers of government. The rights of the citizens is of little account at this level, the crucial arena.
Your lack of clarity encourages the misconception that Hawaiians have no real need of a government. Why not just huddle under the umbrella of the United Nations ?? A powerful government is too much trouble. Professor Boyle, your emphasis on "rights" takes Hawaiians in the wrong direction !
Pomaikaiokalani > kukuna o ka laNovember 19, 2009 at 11:06am
ALOHA Kaua, e Kukuna o ka la, The United States does not recgonized the "Rights" of the Hawaiian People. Living on Hawaiian Home Lands is a Privilege, not a Right.
When native Hawaiians sign up for their Hawaiian Homestead, they relinquished their Rights to their homelands for a Privilege.
When Blacks sat in the backs of the Bus, it was a Privilege. Untill Mrs Parks KUE for her Right to sit any where on the Bus.
The Rights of Hawaiians are deeply rooted in the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom, not the United States.
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomai
"The whole purpose of the Akaka bill is to " ........have authorized Hawaiians sign the Claims Extinguishment Paper. OHA would sign it but for some reason OHA cannot. That's why the US Supreme Court butchered OHA.
Kai Landow > kukuna o ka laNovember 19, 2009 at 4:37pm
I'm sure many Hawaiians here would disagree with me, but I seriously do not want that man breathing! His insides are sooooo pilau, it's something that I wish most people wouldn't turn a blind eye in some shape or form, but rather this man just needs to be stopped. Seriously if I had a way to do, I would.
lol!...that's why we should continually remind him that we are and always will be his "dear friend" no matter where he goes. I mean look at all the eha this guy has...why and for what? All because we not white like huim and so he believes we less than he is and so we cannot have what he has....or worst yet...we cannot (in his perverted mind) have we he does NOT have!
That's why....he has all this contempt and hate for us Hawaiians, lets all remiond him everyday...every chance that we are his dear and loyal friends that he cannot get rid of. No matter how much he would want that to be!
Thank you my friend Kenneth Conklin...if not for you, we Hawaiians would all be Americans just like you.
LOL! You are still a funny and silly character Mr. Conklin! You left out a most important fact...and probably not by accident either!....LOL!
AGAIN! As your President Reagan/Goerge Bush Sr. often said..."READ MY LIPS!" It WAS and remains so the White-Anglo "American Lawmakers"...HAOLE if you still don't get...that created EVERYTHING" YOU FIND racist, Discriminatory, etc.
You want to tear down the "...wall of apartheid separating people by race."? Well, figuratively speaking now, you can start by ripping out your racist heart of hate.
I'll end by suggesting you go see the movie "Avatar" when it comes out....it's about you.
He Conklin has been trying to do this to no avail. He does not matter. He is just a bitter angry "man" who has been hurt and now lashes out at some innocent people. He is not even a citizen of the Hawaiian Kingdom. However Hawaiians who are loyal to the queen are. I believe in the 80/20 rule aka the Pareto Principle: http://www.gassner.co.il/pareto/
IMHO I focus on the 20% who do matter. Ken Conklin is not one of them plus the more he writes the more some people see his true colors which inadvertently has helped to alter what some people think. Some people have even written to me via email to tell me that they think he writes as though he is drunk.
Others people write to me and tell me things like this:
"Read where you are a supporter of the Native People of Hawaii. After reading K. Conklins article I wanted to send a note saying that you are courageous and appreciated by me as an Alaskan Native.
I am Haida Indian from Southeast Alaska and I can empathize with what you are up against. It truly takes an evil person to profess a love of anothers culture while at the same time endeavoring to tear it apart. These Yaatzhadaa as we call them are raised in a dishonest tradition. They learn these two faced behaviors at their parents knee.
It is so common to see outsiders talk about how they love the Native Culture of Alaska while out the other side of their mouths they rail against our Subsistance rights to our foods,use of our language...this is very common in Alaska. When 2/3rds of the state lives in the Anchorage area; we are out voted everytime.
Just wanted you to know I'm proud of you and pray you will not give up the battle. Good luck and Sat'laana be with you."
I focus on the 20% who understand in life and in business.
This includes some people of Scottish descent as their nation was threatened in 1707 so many of them understand the plight of the Hawaiian. Those are the 20%....
As far as race... some people are translating "oiwi" "or "kanaka" to mean a race. Then there are some who are bitter pseudo intellectuals who are mad that they are on a fixed income so when they read about OHA's budget they like to make any kine yet are ignorant about title.
Thus an inherent problem when some haole usurpers continue to try to usurp the Hawaiian people. This excludes Kai and people like him of course :-) However I am not at all surprised. The past is prologue. There will always be these 80% who do not matter yet act as though they do. They are just noise.
It should be noted too that on a positive note... despite his numerous diatribes we are still here. We not going anywhere. Just saying....
Us Haole, including me still step on toes and we appreciate direct input. Big N, little n, no need. Hawaiian, the word, the olelo, like the aina is the Hawaiian nation. Conklin just wants to aihue the olelo to claim what is not theirs.
Conklin claims to be Hawaiian! He has to claim that to have an argument of rights. So who will define Hawaiian? pau already, 1839 declaration of rights.
e Ululani, There are Hawaiians behind Conklin. Many Hawaiians today do not want Justice for our people. Since they are involved and profitted off of the violations of the rights of our people. I know many of these Hawaiians and they know that I know of them.
The Greaterst Enemy to our people come from within our own people. Beginning with the Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs rigtht down to within the movement of our people. They play up on being Hawaiian in Blood.
For the FAKE State of Hawaii to use the Blood Quantum of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to dismissed Jon Osorio's case going back to the Hawaii Supreme Court is Racist.
The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom nation in 1893 was built on Racist. That Racist mentaility continues today.
In the past I've had the Blood Quantum of the Hawaiian Homes Act thrown into my face. But that has never stopped me in my support of the rihts of our people of the Hawaiian Homes Act. Since I know that it's only a few of our people who are Racist against our own people.
E Ola Mau Ke Aupuni Moi o Hawaii, o Pomai
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I will quote a single paragraph from your advice at the Mabel Smythe Auditorium. Then I will express my reaction to the lack of clarity in your words.
"So where is the right of the State of Hawai'i, or a real estate developer, or a resort developer to destroy any of your temples, when these are your temples, this is your land, your right to worship is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration. I don't see that right any more, and indeed it will be hard for them to argue that right now that this law has been passed. ……….. Read through it and understand what your rights are, and proceed to assert them in your dealings with the State and Federal government."
The subject here being restoration, your approach here leaves Hawaiians on a level, one step removed from the action of restoration. Larsen v. the Kingdom seems more on the point than this approach you are using here.
I think I can carry 90% of my point in this very first sentence of yours. Your use of the word "right" here muddies the water. Allow me to paraphrase this sentence toward clarity: So where is the power of the State of Hawai'i, or power of a real estate developer, or power of a resort developer to destroy any of your temples, when these are your temples, this is your land, your right to worship is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration.
Point: Whereas restoration is a battle over powers, you are focusing Hawaiians on a battle over "rights". You are taking the Hawaiians to the wrong arena ! Larsen v. the Kingdom was the correct arena: The Kingdom has the power to protect my right to drive in the Kingdom without a drivers' license.
You seem to be sending Hawaiians off in pursuit of more and more rights as though rights can be accumulated to an amount that will arrive at power, domination, authority as the crowning achievement. This misunderstanding is making Hawaiians miserable. Hawaiians ask themselves "These 'rights' are not getting us to where we want to go; what's wrong ??" Well, even slaves have all kinds of "rights" but they also have masters along with their "rights".
Restoration is about having a government with authority, domination, and power to do battle with its own citizens even, malihinis, the U.S.A, the United Nations, etc. This is the road to Hawaiian happiness, an empowered government. Professor Boyle, how do we work to restore the power of our government; our "rights" seem subsidiary, not primary. We would be better off with our own government even if that government abused the "rights" of some, even most, Hawaiians. Lots of hated governments have existed. Teach us how to maximize, then expand the powers of our restored government. A powerful, dominating government will be able to do more for us than all the "rights" in the world.
Will "civil rights" agitation help restore the Kingdom government ? Black men and women love being Americans and the American government. They just want all their rights. Hawaiians, on the other hand, primarily are not interested in their "rights". You are portraying the Hawaiian movement as a "civil rights" movement. They are interested in the powers of their own government in the company of other national governments. What does it take to have the United States of America back off and respect the powers of the Hawaiian government ? What does it take to revitalize the powers of our government ??
Another quote:
"…., who has title to the land? It's the Native Hawaiian people who retain title to the lands of Hawai'i as a matter of international law. Not the federal government, not the State government, but the the people themselves."
A popular appeal. Better: Not the federal government, not the State government, but the Hawaiian government with the powers of government. The rights of the citizens is of little account at this level, the crucial arena.
Your lack of clarity encourages the misconception that Hawaiians have no real need of a government. Why not just huddle under the umbrella of the United Nations ?? A powerful government is too much trouble. Professor Boyle, your emphasis on "rights" takes Hawaiians in the wrong direction !
When native Hawaiians sign up for their Hawaiian Homestead, they relinquished their Rights to their homelands for a Privilege.
When Blacks sat in the backs of the Bus, it was a Privilege. Untill Mrs Parks KUE for her Right to sit any where on the Bus.
The Rights of Hawaiians are deeply rooted in the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom, not the United States.
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomai
That's why....he has all this contempt and hate for us Hawaiians, lets all remiond him everyday...every chance that we are his dear and loyal friends that he cannot get rid of. No matter how much he would want that to be!
Thank you my friend Kenneth Conklin...if not for you, we Hawaiians would all be Americans just like you.
Again...Thank you Kenny. your dear friend always,
Foster
AGAIN! As your President Reagan/Goerge Bush Sr. often said..."READ MY LIPS!" It WAS and remains so the White-Anglo "American Lawmakers"...HAOLE if you still don't get...that created EVERYTHING" YOU FIND racist, Discriminatory, etc.
You want to tear down the "...wall of apartheid separating people by race."? Well, figuratively speaking now, you can start by ripping out your racist heart of hate.
I'll end by suggesting you go see the movie "Avatar" when it comes out....it's about you.
Your dear friend always!,
Foster
He Conklin has been trying to do this to no avail. He does not matter. He is just a bitter angry "man" who has been hurt and now lashes out at some innocent people. He is not even a citizen of the Hawaiian Kingdom. However Hawaiians who are loyal to the queen are. I believe in the 80/20 rule aka the Pareto Principle: http://www.gassner.co.il/pareto/
IMHO I focus on the 20% who do matter. Ken Conklin is not one of them plus the more he writes the more some people see his true colors which inadvertently has helped to alter what some people think. Some people have even written to me via email to tell me that they think he writes as though he is drunk.
Others people write to me and tell me things like this:
"Read where you are a supporter of the Native People of Hawaii. After reading K. Conklins article I wanted to send a note saying that you are courageous and appreciated by me as an Alaskan Native.
I am Haida Indian from Southeast Alaska and I can empathize with what you are up against. It truly takes an evil person to profess a love of anothers culture while at the same time endeavoring to tear it apart. These Yaatzhadaa as we call them are raised in a dishonest tradition. They learn these two faced behaviors at their parents knee.
It is so common to see outsiders talk about how they love the Native Culture of Alaska while out the other side of their mouths they rail against our Subsistance rights to our foods,use of our language...this is very common in Alaska. When 2/3rds of the state lives in the Anchorage area; we are out voted everytime.
Just wanted you to know I'm proud of you and pray you will not give up the battle. Good luck and Sat'laana be with you."
I focus on the 20% who understand in life and in business.
This includes some people of Scottish descent as their nation was threatened in 1707 so many of them understand the plight of the Hawaiian. Those are the 20%....
As far as race... some people are translating "oiwi" "or "kanaka" to mean a race. Then there are some who are bitter pseudo intellectuals who are mad that they are on a fixed income so when they read about OHA's budget they like to make any kine yet are ignorant about title.
Thus an inherent problem when some haole usurpers continue to try to usurp the Hawaiian people. This excludes Kai and people like him of course :-) However I am not at all surprised. The past is prologue. There will always be these 80% who do not matter yet act as though they do. They are just noise.
It should be noted too that on a positive note... despite his numerous diatribes we are still here. We not going anywhere. Just saying....
E malama pono.
Us Haole, including me still step on toes and we appreciate direct input. Big N, little n, no need. Hawaiian, the word, the olelo, like the aina is the Hawaiian nation. Conklin just wants to aihue the olelo to claim what is not theirs.
Conklin claims to be Hawaiian! He has to claim that to have an argument of rights. So who will define Hawaiian? pau already, 1839 declaration of rights.
Kai
The Greaterst Enemy to our people come from within our own people. Beginning with the Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs rigtht down to within the movement of our people. They play up on being Hawaiian in Blood.
For the FAKE State of Hawaii to use the Blood Quantum of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to dismissed Jon Osorio's case going back to the Hawaii Supreme Court is Racist.
The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom nation in 1893 was built on Racist. That Racist mentaility continues today.
In the past I've had the Blood Quantum of the Hawaiian Homes Act thrown into my face. But that has never stopped me in my support of the rihts of our people of the Hawaiian Homes Act. Since I know that it's only a few of our people who are Racist against our own people.
E Ola Mau Ke Aupuni Moi o Hawaii, o Pomai
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