05-04-2015, 05:55 AM
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Originally posted by Rob Tucker
Let me be the first then to point my finger at DHHL and say they aren't doing their job.
What they are doing with great skill is consuming the funds intended for our native Hawaiian neighbors and spending the money on themselves and their friends. They are very good at developing and maintaining policies that make it exceedingly difficult for a Hawaiian family to gain a leasehold on a DHL plot.
Look down along the Kalapana shoreline where a small subdivision with good water and roads sits basically unused for a decade. If you take the time and research those improvements cost you will be impressed.
Families have died of old age waiting for leaseholds.
I have long been puzzled by how quietly the Hawaiians allow this to continue. I think that they are afraid of retribution if they speak up.
Would this be different in a kingdom?
@ dakine quote...Considering the wealth, held in trust, of the many Hawaiian entities, Kamehameha Schools alone being the wealthiest private trust in the US, I don't think it's as much an issue as those suggesting poverty make it out to be.
As to lands, besides the disputed ceded lands, again entities like Kam Schools have a lot of it. The one entity not listed by Ka Lahui that I believe should be is Bishop Museum. I feel their holdings on this island are central to the discussion.
question..any reason these 2 entities, Bishop estate/Kam schools and DHHL are not being confronted/protested aginst by haw'n activists who are up on the mauna? Demanding from ones own would seem to lend credibility to the cause.