Post #177927 by christiki295 on Sun, Aug 7, 2005 3:34 PM

Now that this is thread in Beyond Tiki, I no longer have to measure my Post:

The decision is a travesty and merely the latest in a long line of situations in which the federal government has, and continues to, subjugate Hawaiians.

The Court provided a strict scrutiny legal rational to justify overlooking the basic underlying premises:

1. Hawaii is, even more than Native Americans, a separate political entity. The imprisoned queen, Liliuokalani, was ruler of all of Hawaii, until imprisoned in her own palace and then forcefully made the 5oth state.

2. Hawaii is the land of Hawaiians - the US merely came and successfully occupied it, initially through force, and then by oligarchy and ultimately by deposing their own rulers.

Even the Court had to acknowledge the role the US government has played in subjecting Hawaiians and the how Hawaiians score the highest on the negative socioeconomic indicators: (1) lower education, (2) incarceration (3) homelessness, etc.

The KS schools are possible the last and best way to enable Hawaiians to help themselves, "by their own bootstraps," by the Hawaiian schools.