HAWAIIAN INDEPENDENCE LEADER BUMPY KANAHELE OPPOSES AKAKA BILL - READ WHY
Maui Time Weekly: Why do you oppose the Akaka Bill?
Bumpy Kanahele: Let's say this table here represents the Hawaiian Nation before the overthrow.
Each Hawaiian has an interest in a part of this table. Then let's say that a tablecloth thrown over this table represents the overthrow and statehood.
Then there is all this stuff that has happened from then on and those are the things on top of this tablecloth.
So now we have this Akaka Bill that wants to set up a governing entity and address the Hawaiian people and what they want and need.
Okay, let's talk about it, but first pick up that tablecloth and ather all the things on it and take that away. Now we can look at our table of rights and interests and see it for what it is.
The Akaka Bill and its supporters are not willing to do that.
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