Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 4, 1 ʻApelila 2007 — Federal recognition [ARTICLE]

Federal recognition

This is in regards to Alan Parker's "Attacks against Native Hawaiian Recognition aimed at all tribal rights" (Malaki 2007). Blood quantum is a U.S. WASP racist

tool to subjugate people under the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Thus, the U.S. government redefines Native American status and redefines Hawaiian Kingdom status as being only one ethnicity. However, contrary to popular belief, the Hawaiian Kingdom is composed of a multi-ethnic citizenry. Hawaiian nationals reject the U.S. proposal to diminish our status from a peer to the U.S.A. to a subjected wardship of the U.S.A. Our status is like that of Switzerland, a neutral state with external sovereignty recognition. The U.S., being historical revisionists, is trying its damnedest to fit us into its nefarious box, hoping that we will acquiesce to its fallacious plot. The U.S. leads everyone to believe that there are only two factions in the Akaka Bill argument: one for and one against based on racism. This is a U.S. domestic law and a policy external to the Hawaiian Kingdom, whieh is subject to its own laws. We deem the U.S. plot repugnant and sinister. We deplore the illusionary Akaka Bill and will continue to fight it. We are the third faction in this debate, and we have been barred from participating and are being suppressed. Support us to get the word out and blow the U.S.'s plans out of the water in the name of justice, liberty and freedom. Hawai'i's situation is an embarrassment to the U.S.A. Tane lnciong Via the lnternet