U.S. Civil Rights Commission Draft Report
Here is a link to the U.C. Civil Rights Commission Draft Report that recommends the Senate reject passage of the Akaka bill, which the Commission then endorsed.
The document has several interesting observations, including:
In the words of one commenter, the legislation would “enshrine racial discrimination into law.” Some of these commenters stressed their own ethnic heritage, including Native Hawaiian ancestry, and argued that the legislation would be an affront both to their own personal identities and to those of their family members who lack Native Hawaiian blood.
Another commenter said:
Throughout the history of the Kingdom, the Republic, the Territory and the State of Hawaii, we have been a multi-racial and multi-cultural society. To separate out only those who had ancestors pre-1778, and take away from them their history of racial equality, their history of civil rights, and demand that they must govern themselves separately because of race, is an insult to the history of all the peoples of the islands of Hawaii.
These are people who have as much or more Hawaiian blood as those who are seeking to impose a government from above downward, as opposed to one generated from the people upward.
This is a document that should be read by anyone who is concerned with this issue.
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/060504NatHawBriefReport.pdf
Hat Tip: Ken Conklin
jere krischel said,
May 8, 2006 @ 5:46 pm
Even more interesting is the findings section of the draft report that got redacted at the last minute:
http://morganreport.org/mediawiki/media/4/43/60504_Draft_Report_USCCR.pdf
Mahalo to everyone who helped inform the commission and fight the false history posed by the Akaka bill!
Anonymous said,
May 10, 2006 @ 12:36 pm
This is NOT a ‘complicated’ issue. It is very simple. The so-called Akaka Bill that establishes a ‘Native Hawaiian Sovereign entity’ based on race is RACIST! Racism is WRONG and must not be tolerated. The US Senate must defeat this terrible bill.
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