05-19-2015, 04:59 AM
quote:You are irrational because you keep asking the same question, even when an answer has been given. The Akaka bill is the offered approach. The people against the Akaka bill are Republicans. The Republicans are behind the Hawaiian Kingdom movement. They know the Hawaiians can't organize properly behind a Hawaiian kingdom movement, since as even you have realized, there is no consensus possible.
Originally posted by Wao nahele kane
how to approach the situation becomes the million dollar question.
Start by reviewing the facts, then start forming opinions. The fact is the pre-contact number of native Hawaiians was estimated to be 300,000 to 500,000 in 1779, after the measles and other western disease epidemics were contained, the number was about 40,000 in 1884. Today, the estimate of native Hawaiians (50% or more bloodline) is 15,000. That number is rapidly declining. Native Hawaiians have a much younger mortality rate than almost all the migrants that have made their way to these islands. Overlay that declining population chart over a timeline of when a consensus of who forms a Hawaiian Kingdom, and the estimate is by the time the Hawaiian Kingdom is formed, there will be no native Hawaiians. It will be the ironies of ironies if that happens. Southern Rush says it best, will there be any left 100 years from now?
This guy really sums up a lot in the first few minutes, and he understands the situation better than most Hawaiians, even with the statement he is a non-native native Hawaiian in the first few minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P0VRfEfiCo
BTW, it is the Republicans that are saying the Akaka bill makes Hawaiians dirty redskins. Typical Republican tactic, use racism as proof they are not racist. "Dirty Redskin" is an example of a totally white American English phrase, from people that claim to abhor racism, not invented or used anywhere else on this planet.
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