Akaka Bill Would Define Residents By Race To Extinguish Kingdom Rights Of All Hawai`i Nationals
Washington Times - June 1, 2006Hawaiian Sen. Daniel Akaka's seven-year project, the "Native Hawaiian Governmental Reorganization Act" often called simply the Akaka bill, has been labeled many things from manifest destiny in reverse to unhinged multiculturalism but what it really is is an attempt to legalize and codify what the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in 2000: a race-based government....
In his push to get the legislation back on the Senate's agenda, Mr. Akaka asserted that, "those who characterize this bill as race-based fail to understand the federal policies towards indigenous peoples."
[We understand very well, Mr. Akaka, US federal policies towards indigenous peoples. They include
- Being Left With About 2% Of Your Land - The US Governmnet Takes The Rest.
- Having The Worst Health, Social and Economic Profiles Of Any Demographic In The US.
- Living In Poverty For The Rest Of Your Life. Also Goes For Your Children And Your Children's Children.
- Having Absolutely No Legal Recourse Ever Again To Right These Brutal Wrongs.]
Mr. Akaka has referred to the bill as "my efforts to bring parity to Native Hawaiians."
But no matter how thickly veiled the legislation may be in the multicultural rhetoric of making up for past wrongs, the bill smacks of a divisive move toward racial separation, not inclusion....
Mr. Akaka's legislation should not have proceeded this far, and deserves to be firmly defeated.
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