The Mystery of Hawaiian History

National Center for Public Policy Research press release

For Release: October 24, 2007

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a far-reaching bill that would create a race-based government with substantial power over the affairs of the state of Hawaii.

The “Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007″ (H.R. 505, also called the “Akaka Bill”) was adopted by a 261-153 vote.

Members of the Project 21 black leadership network say the legislation directly conflicts with the spirit of inclusion and equality that civil rights activists fought so hard to create.

“It is contemptibly dishonest, not to mention completely disingenuous, for the very politicians who are best known for decrying racial division to eagerly push legislation to institutionalize race as the guiding principle for a body of government within our United States,” said Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie. “Surely, such a radical proposal deserves more attention and certainly a lot more debate.” Read the rest of this entry »

A radio interview with Ken Conklin, 37 minutes, taped July 2007, is now available on the internet and for download as an mp3 file on kenconklin.org (right-click link and save-as to save the mp3 to your computer). Mr. Conklin was interviewed by JP Muntal, formerly of Hawaii Public Radio now at The Hawaii Radio Project.

Topics include Conklin’s book, Hawaiian apartheid, racial separatism, ethnic nationalism, Hawaiian religious fascism used to justify racial supremacy, Kamehameha Schools admissions policy, how a historical falsehood was asserted on the floor of the U.S. Senate in June 2007 to push the Akaka bill.

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(as printed in the July 20, 2007 Honolulu Advertiser)

Congresswoman Mazie Hirono’s press release on the appointment of William Burgess and Paul Sullivan to the Hawai’i Civil Rights Advisory Board in which she states that the “group does not appear to reflect the position of the majority of the people of Hawai’i” misrepresents what I know to be the more prevalent public opinion about the Akaka bill.

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by Ken Conklin

On July 14, 2007 the Honolulu newspapers reported that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has approved the nominations of 14 new members to its 17-member Hawaii State Advisory Committee. News reports and commentaries are compiled in references further down in this post.

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By Ken Conklin

On Friday June 8, 2007 a group of ethnic Hawaiian organizations and individuals staged a protest against the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii in front of the building where its office is located. The event had the outward appearance of a 1960s-era street demonstration by “little people” using guerilla street-theatre tactics (prayer and folk songs) to protest at the headquarters of a powerful corporation or government agency.

But in fact it was a form of intimidation by a group of extremely wealthy and powerful race-based institutions complaining that a small local think-tank dares to challenge their “right” to exercise racial exclusion and their demand to expand their already-existing racial supremacy by establishing a race-based government.

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On June 8th, 2007, a motley group of native Hawaiian supremacists, radical sovereignty activists, Kamehameha Schools representatives and unfortunately indoctrinated students made a protest at the Interstate Building at 1314 South King Street. They were protesting the civil rights activism and educational activities of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, making the bold and unfounded claim that, “The Grassroot Institute, both corporately and via its members and affiliates, is part of a reactionary movement to expropriate the collective inheritance of the indigneous peoples of Hawaii.”

They further went on to claim that the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii engaged in “the deplorable tradition of the jingoists”, while themselves stating with no hint of recognizing their own hyperbole that the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii “aims to dismantle women’s rights, minority rights, LGBT rights, ecological sustainability, international cooperation, and supports for working families.” It is surprising that they did not also blame the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii for global warming, hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, AIDS, cancer and the sexual abuse of parishioners by Catholic priests.

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Abusing Hawaiian History: Hawaiians Knew Their History in 1959

by Erica Little and Todd Gaziano

Read at heritage.org

(A more detailed version of this article may be found here.)

A hoaxed 1894 Presidential Proclamation by Grover Cleveland was used as the basis for a 2006 propaganda circus spanning 5,000 miles, in April 2006, by Reverend Kaleo Patterson. It was covered by the Associated Press in an April 21, 2006 article apparently taking the hoax at face value. A year later, after being presented with concrete evidence regarding the nature of the hoax, Reverend Patterson nevertheless pushed a resolution through the State of Hawaii Legislature declaring the same date of April 30 for a day of prayer for Hawaiian restoration, and specifically citing Grover Cleveland’s (fake) proclamation in the whereas clauses justifying the resolution.

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In the News Tribune of Tacoma Washington on Feb 16, 2007, Dan Voelpel reports on a complicated Washington state story about Indian Gaming permitting and Governor Gregoire’s involvement. It seems the governor opposes gambling but supports it if Indians run things. Voelpel then investigates campaign contributions from tribes with some startling results.

This subject is very relevant to the proposed Akaka bill which provides for meeting between federal, state and new native Hawaiian nation representatives to take people and land and assign them to the new entity.

Could you imagine money sloshing around here and there pointed toward influencing outcomes? The Indian Tribes are very supportive of the Akaka bill. They have lots of money. Keen interest and lots of money might well produce something like bribery.

(Also covered in The Hawaii Reporter, 2/27/2007)

In the Valentine’s day edition of The Honolulu Advertiser this year, OHA took it upon itself to inform us with a slick advertisement on page A4 that we must define ourselves by race. Not content to use traditional ethnic terms like “oiwi” or “kanaka maoli”, they’ve decided that the only proper use of the word “Hawaiian” is to refer to a pre-1778 immigrants to the Hawaiian island chain.

Such a bald statement of abject racism cannot go unchallenged - Hawaii is a place, not a race, and all the immigrants to Hawaii, whether before 1778, during the Kingdom period, or as a part of the United States of America, have just claim to the distinction of being Hawaiian.

Their question was stated as “Who is Hawaiian?” Here are their answers, with corrections:

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