FEDERAL RECOGNITION CREATES PHONY NATION
The Honolulu Advertiser - Friday, March 11, 2005
...We would be forced to live with endless repetitions of a fake Hawaiian culture pushed in our faces if the Akaka bill becomes the law of the land: the phony, nauseatingly stupid, missionary hula; the castrati-falsetto hymn praising colonialist princes and princesses; senseless rewrites in Christian versions of Hawaiian myths as fairytales.
It's a kind of modern-day racist minstrel show with Hawai`i's numerous ethnic minorities costumed as Native Hawaiians and putting on demeaning skits...
A lie repeated often enough ends up becoming a kind of hyper-reality.
Existing law long ignored versus the lie made into new law by politicians serving the same special interests that have for too long held Hawai`i's economy in a monopoly death grip...
Like one of those charity schemes wherein they pretend to raise money for a good cause but give only a couple of pennies on the dollar to them, the Akaka bill is one of the most outrageous political con games ever - with newly minted fake Native Hawaiians serving as dumb shills to leverage increased government funds for yet more deadhead bureaucrats...
Maui LoaChief, Hou Band of Native Hawaiians of the Blood of Hawai`i Hale`iwa
