The Mystery of Hawaiian History

On January 10, 2008 Ken Conklin gave testimony to a Kaneohe Town Meeting hosted by state Senator Jill Tokuda and Representatives Pono Chong and Ken Ito.  All of them are either chair or vice-chair of the committees that focus on “Hawaiian Affairs.”  

The testimony identified racial separatism as the most important issue facing the Legislature.  

Recommendations to the Legislature were as follows:  (1) Do not pass any resolution supporting the Akaka bill; on the contrary, place a question on the ballot for November to see whether Hawai’i’s people want Congress to pass the Akaka bill.  Stop giving away state resources even before the Akaka bill passes and before negotiations begin between the Akaka tribe and the state government regarding how to carve up Hawai’i.  (2)  The ceded lands belong to all Hawai’i’s people; the Legislature should rescind the law it passed in 1980 awarding OHA 20% of ceded land revenues.  (3)  In June 2006 a confidential OHA memo became public which outlined Plan B to set up a state-recognized Akaka tribe even if the Akaka bill fails in Congress; that plan is likely to unfold in 2008 and the Legislature should resist it.  (4)  The Legislature should resist paying for OHA boondoggles like a new headquarters building; OHA has over $400 Million in assets plus an annual income of tens of millions and can easily pay for whatever it wants.  (5)  The government funded “host culture” charter schools should be held accountable for violating the separation of church and state, for indoctrinating children with religious views asserting racial supremacy, and for teaching twisted history supporting anti-American and anti-Caucasian attitudes.  (6)  The Legislature should resist proposals from a special commission on bioprospecting that would strip landowners of basic property rights to invite researchers onto their land and to profit from technological discoveries.

For full text of the testimony see
http://tinyurl.com/27p59j

Honolulu Advertiser says “Mixed-martial arts superstar B.J. “The Prodigy” Penn, 28, was sentenced today [December 11] to one year probation and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution for hitting a Honolulu police officer during a melee outside of Waikiki bar two years ago.”
Since the crime happened two years ago, OHA clearly knew about it when they chose him to be the star of a Kau Inoa commercial. The ad shows him throwing a rapid flurry of punches while background music features an ipu [gourd] being hit, slapped, and pounded (just as Penn hits, slaps, and pounds his sports opponents and that policeman).
Obviously there’s a message of strength and pride being sent to ethnic Hawaiians. Equally obviously there’s a message to the larger community that ethnic Hawaiians are quite capable of using violence to get what they want.
Mr. Penn laments that someday there might be no “pure” Hawaiians left — thus implying that 99% of ethnic Hawaiians are impure, having their genealogies stained by “outsiders.” He concludes: “Before anything, be proud to be Hawaiian.” That’s what Kau Inoa is — a racial registry. There is one thing and only one thing required to sign up — a drop of the magic blood. Individual accomplishment is irrelevant.
See transcript, complete analysis, and link to movie of the commercial, at
http://tinyurl.com/33j6qk

In late 2007 Malia Craver made two commercials for Kau Inoa. One was in Hawaiian language, using her prestige to ask ethnic Hawaiians to sign up on the racial separatist registry despite her previous speech to the United Nations urging love, forgiveness, and inter-racial unity. The other was in English, scolding Caucasians for coming to Hawaii in the 1800s and not helping ethnic Hawaiians (false), inferring that Hawaiians were not capable of managing their own affairs; even while she supports a program whose purpose is supposedly to foster self-reliance and self-determination. Transcripts and commentary on both commercials are provided on a webpage, along with an English translation of the Hawaiian ad. The commercial by Dennis Kamakahi gets straight to the point, saying that ethnic Hawaiians share one thing (and only one thing) in common — the blood. Therefore sign up for Kau Inoa (whose only requirement is to prove a genealogy including at least one drop of the magic blood). See:

http://tinyurl.com/ypev3b

From August through November, 2007 a special committee established by Legislative resolution has been holding “informal community discussion forums” on several islands regarding bioprospecting. This committee is racially and ideologically “stacked” with a legislatively mandated majority of ethnic Hawaiians, including two OHA trustees and the two top leaders of the sovereignty activist organization ‘Ilio’ulaokalani; and by being housed inside OHA.

What is bioprospecting? Should ethnic Hawaiians be given a disproportionately large share of any revenue generated from bioprospecting? Should the Legislature give away licensing rights, revenue, and jurisdictional authority to ethnic Hawaiians as a racial group even before the Akaka bill passes, before there is a Native Hawaiian governing entity, and before there are any negotiations in which the State (on behalf of all Hawaii’s people) might get something in return for such giveaways?

A webpage contains the press release announcing the committee hearings, some news reports describing bioprospecting and the hearings, the testimony of Ken Conklin for the forum at Windward Community College on November 27, and links to other related webpages. See

http://tinyurl.com/yud9gw

Half of Hawaii’s charter schools are referred to in various ways as “host culture” or “Native Hawaiian” or “Hawaiian culture” charter schools. [These schools are not the same as the Hawaiian language immersion schools.]

The host-culture charter schools are helping to foster ethnic pride. But they are also being used as madrassas to indoctrinate children with religious beliefs and twisted history designed to promote feelings of entitlement to racial supremacy, racial separatism, and ethnic nationalism.

The Hawaii State Senate Education Committee has scheduled an informational briefing on (all the) charter schools for Thursday November 29.

Ken Conklin submitted written testimony. That testimony, along with the published notice of the briefing, and links to related webpages about the “host culture” charter schools, can be seen at

http://tinyurl.com/2wfxvl

A lawsuit against OHA by native Hawaiians with high blood quantum was resurrected by U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2007 after having been dismissed by Judge Mollway of the U.S. District Court in Honolulu (the same judge whose dismissal of Arakaki v. Lingle was also overruled by the 9th Circuit Court). A motion to intervene was filed in November 2007 by a group of 6 plaintiffs with no Hawaiian native blood, who seek to protect the rights of a million Hawaii citizens to share in the ceded lands trust. A webpage provides news reports and commentaries from August, plus full text of the November plaintiffs’ motion to intervene and opposition to State of Hawaii position. See
http://tinyurl.com/yo2ovk

On November 13, 2007 OHA suddenly published a slick 67-page document which tried to smear the Hawaii Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just two days before a long-scheduled public meeting. The document also tried to twist history to support the Akaka bill and tried to discredit earlier testimony opposing the bill.

OHA’s 67-page document is entitled “Correcting the Record: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Justice for Native Hawaiians.” It can be downloaded in pdf format from the OHA website at

http://oha.org/images/stories/071113correcting.pdf

and a list of appendices can be downloaded at

http://oha.org/images/stories/071113appendices.pdf

A rebuttal to OHA’s 67-page document was published by civil rights activists one day later. It is entitled “Correcting OHA’s Deceptive ‘Correcting the Record’.” It was written by a few civil rights activists operating under urgent time pressure with zero budget, to counteract the slick OHA document produced by a large staff with large budget over a period of about two months. The civil rights rebuttal describes how the previous civil rights committee from 1996 to 2006 was overwhelmingly stacked with supporters of race-based government and private programs, and worked closely with OHA and the powerful race-based institutions to counteract the Rice v. Cayetano decision, to facilitate development of the Akaka bill, and to support the Akaka bill throughout the first six years it was pending in Congress. The rebuttal straightens out some of the twisted Hawaiian history presented in the OHA report. This rebuttal can be found at the GRIH Wiki.