It's bad enough a so called great country like the USA creates these legal definitions of what is or isn't considered "native Hawaiian" or "Native Hawaiian" or just "Hawaiian" by which all 3 plus the other more indigenous terms seem to define and redefine all of us, but to have others, outsiders, those who aren't familiar with who we are and our culture to constantly use some if not all or none of those terms I mentioned as well as any other criteria in their little minds as they see fit to define who we are.
It's always the result of seeing who our ancestors were, get a glimpse of our history, and what little inaccurate info. they receive from the media and somehow incorporate all of that to form an opinion, or use that as a criteria defining who we are, or how much we are what they feel we should be or isn't.
The most annoying part of this is that they will always believe that they are right, and that only they know the truth, that only they can be correct and that we aren't intelligent enough to know. And these people can use anything in the book, whatever info. they can gather on their own and try to analyze it in their own way or worse, make comparisons to something not related to our culture or our people and use that to form their own opinion.
Case in point would be Ken Conklin. Without going into details, he has used what little he knows of our culture, language and history and twists it to suit his own needs. Then he takes advantage of people who don't have the time to research on their own and spread these lies about us. Basically de-Hawaiianizing us, creating this idea that due to our past, we have become racists against Haoles. Of course he does this by preaching EQUALITY (a concept to many that means ALL FOR THE HAOLE, not really equal for all people) and begin to present examples that showed where Haole people (for the most part, if not trying to point out for other ethnicities too) have been disenfranchised by Hawaiians or Hawaiian programs, etc.
But it's the same concept because he is quantifying us. In his mind, if he can prove that quantifying Hawaiians, (to a lesser degree for the most part & a term he likes to use is "ethnic Hawaiian" , as oppose to non-ethnic Hawaiians) if not by blood, then by culture or any other means, then he validates why other non-ethnic-Hawaiians should have a right to live in the islands.
People will have their reasons for quantifying us. Ken Conklin does it to validate why he should have an equal share of using the islands for his own recreational use. "thotsins" whom I mentioned in my last post did it to Popolo-ize us, plus he was offended at me calling him out about co-opting biblical people as his own people & their culture. I mean, the list goes on and on.
If you have any examples as to why you were quantified, please share it with me. I should write a damn book about it, I bet that would make money. Hey, the Haole way, I should take advantage of that.
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