Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 1, 1 January 2008 — Hawaiions -- A race to reckon with [ARTICLE]

Hawaiions -- A race to reckon with

While Hawaiians have intermixed with other races, including haoles, Hawaiians are still a race to reckon with. I mean from elementary to college and all over, I see Hawaiians are feared and respected, and for some who spent their teens on the U.S. continent, they even enjoy star status with young wahine in California! And we must be something, obviously a race to be reckoned with, after all haoles have to use the courts to get into Kamehameha Schools

and to run for office in OHA. And after spending all that money to hire lawyers to get their kids into Kamehameha Schools, with one exception, most have dropped out, finding it's too difficult to learn our language, customs, music, hula, chants and our way of life now, and then! So why spend all that money to get their kids into Kamehameha in the first plaee, if only to slap the faces of the many Hawaiians whose kids do have Hawaiian blood and got in the usual way to Kamehameha Schools ! Rodney Souza Wailuku, Maui