Post #363191 by Thomas on Sun, Feb 24, 2008 12:01 PM

Excellent comments. It's always rewarding to see different viewpoints, even pointed disputes, stay totally civil and sharing-oriented.

My personal opinion is that ethnic Hawaiians who wish to advance the well-being of people who share their ethnic characteristics should run as fast as possible away from schemes that aim to create differential treatments of/for them in the realms of politics, law, taxation, social welfare policies, etc., for down that road lie weakness, insularity, and resentment.

Then again:
No one has asked for my opinion;
This point of view is rarely heeded anyway;
This is getting off the topic of this thread;
This is getting into a kind of historical discussion that has gone on a number of times previously on TC;
And it is also getting into the area of politics, which is discouraged here, and for good reason.