What is a “real” Hawaiian?  One with 100% Hawaiian ancestry?  Or one who “feels” Hawaiian, like Walter Ritte who has more Caucasian than Hawaiian.

What is a “real” Hawaiian?  One with 100% Hawaiian ancestry?  Or one who “feels” Hawaiian, like Walter Ritte who has more Caucasian than Hawaiian.

Letter in today's Tribune-Herald:

The claim game

It is an indisputable fact that many years ago a group of foreigners came to the peaceful Hawaiian Islands and overthrew their local governments and way of life, enslaving them and taking away all of their rights to self-rule.

They did this with the help of waves of their fellow foreigners, overpowering the Hawaiian people with their “might makes right” philosophy and many acts of violence. Arguably, the Hawaiian people have never recovered from this oppression.

Unless one agrees that “might makes right,” these foreign oppressors cannot claim any legal rights or moral standing in these islands, and the government they erected on the ashes of the real Hawaiian people’s culture has no claims to the control of any land or assets here.

Of course, these foreign invaders were the Tahitians, and the government they imposed on the peaceful Hawaiians was the slave state of Kamehameha.

No one who respects the real Hawaiian people can claim any cultural or religious rights to Maunakea or anything else in Hawaii based on the results of a 14-year war of domination of Kamehameha, who the real Hawaiians did not respect or want as their king, often fighting hand-to-hand with his racist warriors and being killed or enslaved.

Truth matters.

Carl Oguss

Just some added notes.
"Kamehameha soon used his relationships with traders to build up an armory of Western weapons,
 trading Hawaii's much coveted sandalwood for arms. Over time, he and his army were able to use
their superior firepower to take charge of most of the Hawaiian islands"
Kamehameha would not have been able to defeat
his opponents without us.
We are part of Hawaiian history,
not invaders.

all these facts should be posted on social media...because then it would be news...
well, in short bullet comments because the attention span and reading capability of some people are measured in grains....

Ren
This is part of my "social media".

Just some added notes.
We are part of Hawaiian history,
not invaders.

Letter in today's Tribune-Herald:

The claim game

It is an indisputable fact that many years ago a group of foreigners came to the peaceful Hawaiian Islands and overthrew their local governments and way of life, enslaving them and taking away all of their rights to self-rule.

They did this with the help of waves of their fellow foreigners, overpowering the Hawaiian people with their “might makes right” philosophy and many acts of violence. Arguably, the Hawaiian people have never recovered from this oppression.

Really, where did this author get this information?  A one-sided  American history book?


Unless one agrees that “might makes right,” these foreign oppressors cannot claim any legal rights or moral standing in these islands, and the government they erected on the ashes of the real Hawaiian people’s culture has no claims to the control of any land or assets here.

Of course, these foreign invaders were the Tahitians, and the government they imposed on the peaceful Hawaiians was the slave state of Kamehameha.

This author really likes twisting the truth.  Did he come up with this commentary by himself?

This author should tread carefully when he speaks of Kamehameha the Great.


No one who respects the real Hawaiian people can claim any cultural or religious rights to Maunakea or anything else in Hawaii based on the results of a 14-year war of domination of Kamehameha, who the real Hawaiians did not respect or want as their king, often fighting hand-to-hand with his racist warriors and being killed or enslaved.

And how does he know that?  Did he go back in history and tracked down the aboriginal population of these islands and asked them their views of Kamehameha the Great?


Truth matters.

Yes it does, but this author definitely does not know the truth.


Carl Oguss

Oh, by-the-way, if you really want to belittle Hawaiian history and insult Kamehameha the Great, you need to do better than post the opinions of a psychology professor and owner of the East Hawaii Dog Psychology Center.

Blah blah blah

Yes, you are a part of Hawaiian history.  You are residents who are residing in an illegally occupied nation.

Blah, Blah, Blah

Yeah, I am tired of your obvious hatred of anything Hawaiian too.

The exact same thing is true of all Hawaiians residing here if we grant that the nation is illegally occupied.

Hatred?  You say that like you believe I even care.   

Exactly my point.  Let all see that you do hate all Hawaiians.