Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 11, 1 November 2008 — U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report, dated May 4, 2006 [ARTICLE]

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report, dated May 4, 2006

Considering the Akaka Bill, the Comission on Civil Rights found that the Hawaiian Kingdom "included Native Hawaiians, but also included residents of other races and ethnicities." They recoimnended strongly against the Akaka Bill as "legislation that would discriminate on the basis of race or nahonal origin and further subdivide the American people." We are not tribes, this hill is wrong, to ignore Article 15 of the Hague Convention, "everyone has a right to their national identity." The Akaka Bill should be addressing and restoring our govermnent that its troops displaced in 1893). It's a contradiction of our ratified treaties! The hill denies status for Hawaiian nationals and ignores other ethnicities who are still Hawaiian subjects till today. Remember 'ohana, kūpuna said, Kaulana Nā Pua, famous are the children of Hawai'i. We will not be hobbled and controlled under the laws that have hobbled Native Americans. Consequently, Hawaiian Nationals object to the Akaka Bill's present language and its greedy message of annexation babe! Kūpuna said in the Kū'ē Petition, "NO" to annexation. Mr. Akaka is a good man and is being used. If he listens to the wind, he will hear the voices of his kūpuna and of Pono Kaulike, and heeome who he really is, a Hawaiian Nahonal. 'Ike maka 'ohana. See more information at hawaiian kingdom.org and leam more about the continually existing Hawaiian nahon. Aloha no, I 'O lako 'ohana, ua mau ke ea o ka 'āina i ka pono. E3