Abusing Hawaiian History: Hawaiians Knew Their History in 1959
by Erica Little and Todd Gaziano
Read at heritage.org
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(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.
Hawaiian Misrecognition
Feb 15
(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:
What would a Native Hawaiian government be like? Just look at Fiji which was freed from British rule a few decades ago.
The military seized control of Fiji on Tuesday after weeks of threats, locking down the capital with armed troops and isolating at home the elected leader whose last-minute pleas for help from foreign forces were rejected.
The coup was the fourth armed takeover in the South Pacific country in 19 years, and had its roots in the same ethnic divide that produced the previous three.
Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of FreedomWorks wrote a column that ends with this sentence:
Let’s hope the recent Senate vote will be the last we hear of this divisive piece of legislation.
It is time to return to the principle that he refers to in his first sentence.
The concept of e pluribus unum holds that the diverse peoples of the various states are bound together in a government that protects the rights of all.
The program of trying to implement increasing entitlements for Hawaiians hasn’t worked in improving their lot. It is time to try something else. No one wants to admit it but OHA is an utter failure. Time to move on.
Whole article by Matt Kibbe here.
KITV – The HawaiiChannel.com reports:
The “Akaka Bill” is set for an important milestone Tuesday, when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is expected to introduce a measure to bring the controversial bill to the Senate floor.
This would be the Cloture vote. Stay tuned.
Article here.
The People On The Sidewalk
Jun 10
Posted by jere in Commentary, News | 1 Comment
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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