FEDERAL RECOGNITION SHOULD OUTRAGE HAWAIIANS
The Maui News - Sunday, March 27, 2005
After being amended for the 10th time, the Akaka Bill is thinner than nonfat milk.
Hawaiians, why are you not upset about this? Why do you let people like the governor, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and two senators compromise you right out of your independence, freedom and your future native rights?
Remember, these people who are supposed to represent you consider themselves Americans.
Recognition is a joke. Do you need someone to tell you that you are Hawaiian?
Do you like them telling you if you're not 50 percent Hawaiian, you're not a Hawaiian so you don't qualify for affordable homes while the rich haole who has no Hawaiian blood buys up land by the acres and lives here three months out of the year?
You need to be concerned about our natural resources, our ceded lands, geographical location, our independence. These are the things that will afford education, health care and a future for our people.
We need to break free from the occupying oppressor. We are 400,000 Hawaiians strong.
Oni pa'a or die.
Gaby Gouveia
Makawao
