Post #183493 by christiki295 on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 6:18 PM

Aloha, Geeky Tiki & Thomas,

Your question, "Tell me how that's a more enlightened culture than what is in place now" was already addressed by my issue that Hawaii was its own nation and the U.S. took it over. Now the U.S. continues to subjugate native Hawaiians by depriving it of the full access to the K-Schools.

Your comment that as the US can overtake over nations, just so long as it does "not undertake genocide" of those peoples appears, at best, misguided.

I do not believe in "might makes right," nor our subjective belief that our "moral authority" based on having a "better democracy" provides the U.S. with post-hoc justification for the invasion of Hawaii and the overthrow or annexation of the Hawaiian government.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court failed to provide weight to the historical facts in order to justify its decision against the K-schools.

The Court also failed to acknowledge that native Americans are just as much as a race as native Hawaiians because native-Americans are a protected race, not merely a political institution under Title VII, which Congress also passed.

[ Edited by: christiki295 2005-08-31 18:24 ]