Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 4, 1 ʻApelila 2001 — LEKA Kālele KWO FOCUS LETTER [ARTICLE]

LEKA Kālele KWO FOCUS LETTER

Iam responding to a letter that appeared in the Garden Island forum on Feb. 27, " Hawaiian Judges do Democrats Bidding," by Douglas E. Rapozo. For your information, non-Hawaiians created both the Hawaiian Homes Act and OHA. I believe these were put into plaee to appease Hawaiians for wrongs committed by these non-Hawaiians. The United States, in cahoots with its puppet state government, is still reaping the benefits of our stolen Hawaiian Lands and are throwing out "peanuts" by way of OHA, a state agency they control. "The case for Hawaiian Sovereignty" by activist Keanu Sai is now in tribunal at the Hague, the wor!d court of arbitration. located in the Netherlands. A decision is imminent, and if honesty prevails, it will favor the sovereignty movement. I do take offense that Rapozo, like other misinformed people, insists that Kamehameha Schools

should be opened to all ethnic races as he infers that the school has unconstitutional policies. Our noble Hawaiian Princess Pauahi Bishop, in her last will and testamenl, left her vast estate in perpetuity for the education of boys and girls of Hawaiian ancestry. Her will did not say Portuguese, Filipino, Japanese, German. English or other ethnicities. I take it that Rapozo is Portuguese. Have you ever heard of a Portuguese princess leaving her fortune to other racial groups? 1 think not. I'm of the Kamehameha Schools class of '42. Some of the better years of my life were spent boarding there. I pray that our present and future trustees will eonhnue to honor the wishes of our beloved princess. Paul D. Lemke Kapa'a