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 Posted: Fri 30 Sep 2005 02:57 Post subject: Hawaiian "One Drop Rule" |
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| Quote: | Native-Hawaiian movement confuses avarice for aloha
By Phyllis Schlafly
Sep 26, 2005
Founder, Eagle Forum
Does Hawaii want to secede from the Union? That sounds like a preposterous question, but the official Office of Hawaiian Affairs reports on its Web site (www.oha.org) that legislation scheduled to be voted on soon in the U.S. Senate will give Native Hawaiians "self-determination" to choose "total independence" or any other form of government.
Hawaii is asking the U.S. Senate to create a Hawaiian race-based government for people with Native Hawaiian blood living anywhere in the United States. I'm not making this up; it's real.
According to S. 147, a Native Hawaiian is anyone of the "indigenous, native people of Hawaii" who is a "direct lineal descendant of the aboriginal, indigenous, native people" who resided in the Hawaiian Islands before 1893 and "exercised sovereignty" in that region. That convoluted definition must have been written by lawyers.
The use of the word sovereignty is peculiar because only nations and kings or queens exercise sovereignty. Hawaii was a monarchy in 1893, and Queen Liliuokalani exercised sovereignty, but the bill can't mean only her direct lineal descendants.
So, to be a Native Hawaiian, you don't need to have lived in Hawaii or ever had any affiliation with Native Hawaiian culture, language or politics. You just need to have one drop of the right kind of blood.
That reminds me of the greatest musical ever written, Jerome Kern's "Show Boat," where an essential part of the story line is that one drop of Negro blood made a man an African-American. I thought we had put all those racial notions behind us and moved on, but S. 147 is trying to bring them back.
S. 147 would create a racially separate government that would operate like an Indian tribe with its own laws and racial voting restrictions anywhere in the United States. This new "tribe" would include about 20 percent of Hawaii's residents plus some 400,000 Americans nationwide, making it the largest Indian tribe.
The people under the jurisdiction of this new government would not be defined by geography, community or cultural cohesiveness, but by race. This sort of racial division, separatism, and ethnic separation is so offensive that it's hard to see how grown-ups could be seriously considering it.
Hawaii is our pre-eminent example of the success of the melting-pot theory: people of all races have intermarried for nearly two centuries. Nearly half of all marriages in Hawaii are interracial, a figure that is 10 times higher than the rest of the United States.
Three-fourths of those who claim to be "pure" Native Hawaiians marry other races. More than half of those who claim to be "part" Native Hawaiian do likewise.
We are trying to spread democracy around the world, but that message doesn't seem to have reached the sponsors of S. 147. The bill does not assure that the new race-based government will be democratic; nothing in the bill prevents it from becoming a theocratic monarchy (with a new Queen Liliuokalani?).
Nor is there any procedure to enable Hawaiians to decide whether they want to authorize this race-based government in our midst. The procedure sounds like the high-handed way the European elite tried to put over the European Union Constitution without consulting voters.
Since the debate over U.S. Supreme Court nominees has made "settled law" a favorite expression, we should point out that when Hawaii became a state, it became settled law that Hawaiians would accept the U.S. Constitution, and that there would be no more monarchy and no more separate government or sovereignty for Native Hawaiians. We had a national consensus both in and out of Hawaii that Native Hawaiians would be U.S. citizens, not treated as a separate racial group.
Advocates for Hawaiian statehood repeatedly then emphasized that Hawaii is a melting pot of racial and national origins who are joined in a common patriotism and faith in U.S. institutions. So why are we spending time discussing this retro idea?
Follow the money to search for motives behind this oddball legislation. The clue to the mystery is Section 8(b) of S. 147, which ensures that the new Native Hawaiian government can negotiate gambling rights with the state of Hawaii and the federal government.
It appears that some politically well-connected Hawaiians want to cash in on the profitable casino privileges that have been given to American Indian tribes. Another possible motive is that a small group of Native Hawaiians is trying to grab some of the high-priced real estate in the beautiful islands and claim it as their tribal heritage.
To find these pots of gold at the end of the rainbow, the Native Hawaiians want to pretend they are a "tribe." This is fantasyland; the sponsors must have been reading too much "Harry Potter."
Creating a race-based society would take the United States in the wrong direction, a step backward, offensive to the Constitution and to a national commitment to equal justice for all. |
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Find this story at: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?cc92fa75-d9e0-46b3-bfcb-55c06780267f
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'Native Hawaiian' Population to Double by 2050
'Lilikala' Says Use Population Bomb to Blow Up Current Non-Native Majority
By Kenneth R. Conklin, 9/28/2005
The population of "Native Hawaiians" will more than double by year 2050.
So says a new "study" produced by PASE, the research/propaganda agency of the $6 billion - $15 billion Kamehameha Schools, which specializes in victimhood studies bolstering the Hawaiian grievance industry (note #1). The new population projection can be downloaded in pdf format at: http://tinyurl.com/cwehb
According to the new report, by year 2050 there will be 536,947 "Native Hawaiians" in Hawaii, and 987,602 nationwide.
Of course such projections depend on many variables, and many assumptions which may or may not be correct. But let's assume for the sake of argument that these predictions are correct.
One obvious conclusion is that Congress had better defeat the Akaka bill. Does America really want a million-member Indian tribe on the dole, demanding housing, healthcare, education and a plethora of other programs that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars every year forever?
Another obvious conclusion is that "Native Hawaiians" are not a dying race, contrary to what we have repeatedly been told. One of the best little tear-jerker "poor me" books ever published is "Then There Were None" (note #2). Each little chapter of this small-scale book (a perfect size for a Christmas stocking-stuffer) is focused on a short period of Hawaiian history describing loss and decimation, summarized by a single tombstone sentence like: "By 1878 there were only 48,000 pure Hawaiians left alive." But contrary to claims that "Native Hawaiians" are a dying race, what we see is that their population has multiplied tenfold in the first century of American sovereignty in Hawaii -- going from fewer than 40,000 in the U.S. Census of year 1900 to more than 400,000 in Census 2000. And now, according to this new report, there will be nearly a million by year 2050. Hawaiians are doing well as Americans.
A third conclusion has been drawn by Lilikala Kameeleihiwa, currently professor and formerly Chair of the University of Hawaii Center for Hawaiian Studies (if you have trouble pronouncing her made-up name, just call her by her birth name that appeared as the only name on her doctoral dissertation -- Lily Dorton).
On Sept. 27, 2005, the new population projections from PASE were summarized in The Honolulu Advertiser at: http://tinyurl.com/8prrv
"Lilikala" was quoted by The Honolulu Advertiser reporter Gordon Pang as follows:
"I'm seeing that we need to be a majority of the population if we're going to get political change," she said. "We, as Hawaiians, would like to have more control over our land base so that we can raise our children in a Hawaiian manner so we can practice our culture, so that we have land on which we can make our schools that we can use to produce healthy, happy Hawaiians." Kameeleihiwa said she's disappointed the Kamehameha study does not show Native Hawaiians growing at a faster clip. At a recent rally attended by approximately 10,0000 supporters of Kamehameha's admissions policy, she urged Native Hawaiians to make as many babies as they could. She continues to make that call. "I don't want to have to wait for 2050 for us to double our population," she said. "Instead of the next 50 years, I'd like to do it in the next 20 years."
So "Lilikala" seriously tells ethnic Hawaiians to make lots of babies -- as fast as possible -- in order to maximize the political bang of this population bomb. The population bomb is to be used as a political weapon against other races, in an all-out effort to become the absolute majority in a Hawaii where now everyone is a minority. Just think. To please "Lilikala" a 14-year-old girl with 1/32 Hawaiian blood could get pregnant today, give birth to a baby girl with 1/64 Hawaiian blood, who at age 14 gets pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl with 1/128 Hawaiian blood, who at age 14 gets pregnant and gives birth to a baby with 1/256 Hawaiian blood. Thus in 50 years there would be three new generations of "Native Hawaiians," all descended from a proud 60-year-old great-grandmother.
Making babies is not only fun, it's a power trip. Do it for the "movement" -- a great excuse for unbridled sex, forget pills and condoms, let government pay to raise the babies. After all, "Lilikala" also supports the Akaka bill, so she expects all of America to send billions of dollars per year forever to raise those babies to adulthood and provide housing, healthcare, and education (in a "Native Hawaiian" controlled school system of course. -- see note #3).
Since The Honolulu Advertiser reporter Gordon Pang spent nearly 1/5 of his article touting "Lilikala's" outrageously racist exhortation to "her people" to multiply like rabbits to take over political power, he is, in effect, giving a megaphone to someone shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.
Of course "Lilikala" assumes that anyone with a drop of the magic blood will choose to identify "Native Hawaiian" as their sole ethnic allegiance (as she does, trashing her Dorton heritage). After all, "Native Hawaiian" is the only part of one's ancestry that counts, right? And all ethnic Hawaiians make race the most important thing in their lives, just like "Lilikala." Right?
Unfortunately for "Lilikala," her population bomb would send lethal shrapnel throughout her beloved ethnic community. Families with too many children cannot accumulate enough wealth to maintain a modern lifestyle or properly care for the children. The victimhood statistics PASE loves to celebrate will become even worse. The tax base will shrink too small to support such a huge number of needy people and to incarcerate all the criminals and drug abusers the PASE data tell us would surely be produced. But hey, they could outvote everybody else and get the political power they have always craved. A real banana republic at last. Ignorant, disease-ridden, drug-abuser huddled masses living communally and utterly dependent on arrogant leaders like "Lilikala."
* * Notes:
#1: The PASE division of Kamehameha (Policy Analysis and System Evaluation) has become famous for producing a multitude of well-financed victimhood "studies" portraying "Native Hawaiians" as having the worst statistics for disease, low income, poor education, drug abuse, incarceration, etc. Those "studies" are then used by numerous powerful institutions as documentation to support applications for huge government and philanthropic grants to do more "studies" and to provide a network of racially exclusionary service agencies. See: "Native Hawaiian Victimhood Claims -- What Are They? Why Are They Being Asserted? How Can the Bad Statistics Be Explained?" at http://tinyurl.com/ccvuh
#2: "Haole Collective Guilt for Hawaiian Grievances and Pain -- A book review of 'Then There Were None' by Martha H. Noyes (based on Elizabeth Lindsey Buyers TV docudrama)" http://tinyurl.com/2z9dy
#3: "PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ETHNIC NATION-BUILDING IN HAWAII -- a legislative bill to create a separate statewide school system for Native Hawaiians" http://tinyurl.com/2h6uo
Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D., is an independent scholar in Kaneohe, Hawaii. His Web site on Hawaiian Sovereignty is at: http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty He can be contacted at: mailto:Ken_Conklin@yahoo.com |
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