Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 5, 1 May 2001 — More on politics [ARTICLE]

More on politics

After the Florida elections, I tend to wonder about equality here in a democracy. After the dragging of a black man in Jasper, Texas, I tend to wonder who is fair in cultural backgrounds. After the decision and debates over Hawaiian organizations using state and federal funds, I find it quite intriguing that the Hawaiian people cannot make efforts to advance themselves by a voting pattern, because some foreign individuals decided we are not fit or eapable of making decisions. Thus this leads me to believe that if a non-Hawaiian was to govern the people of Hawaiian ancestry that we would be better off. For example: We would not be in the lower status of educational studies. We, the minority, the Hawaiian people, would not be the lowest ineome per capita. and the Department of Hawaiian Homelands would not be just a project organization that really ignores the housing conditions for all Hawaiian. Make your own judgment. I have mine. Alika W. Winchester Waimānalo