U.S. CONGRESS ADVISED TO REJECT AKAKA BILL
The Honolulu Advertiser - Friday May 5, 2006
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recommended yesterday that Congress reject a bill granting federal recognition and self-government rights to Hawaiians.
The action was a blow to supporters of the controversial bill, which was introduced six years ago by Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawai`i, and
other members of the Hawai'i delegation....
Local opponents of the Akaka bill were happy with the recommendation, however.
Ikaika Hussey, a member of Hui Pu, an umbrella group of Native Hawaiian groups opposed to the Akaka bill because they feel it does not go far enough in providing reparations, said the recommendation shows that Hawaiians should not be dealing the U.S. government in the first place.
"I think that the fact that the Civil Rights Commission voted the way it did on the Akaka bill is an indication that we need to move from
talking about the civil rights, which is a very limited way of talking about the issue, to human rights," Hussey said.
"We need to talk about what a real reconciliation process is like."
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