08-04-2019, 09:37 AM
So, if you're defining marginalization as "no longer ruling the land" I agree, but the statehood vote (and 125 years under US rule) makes me think most people have moved on from that. We live in a democracy where anyone can run for office, speak or protest, use the courts, etc. What would the alternative look like? Would it be better, fairer, more inclusive, more prosperous?
Part of not being marginalized is convincing others that your way is better. Say some fraction of 200,000 native Hawaiians believe in making Mauna Kea kapu to more telescopes. Being generous, say it's 50%, or 100,000, instead of the 25% in the 2018 survey. So 100,000 people have to convince the other 1,300,000 people living here that they know better, they should be in charge, their religious views are the right ones, there should be kapu on building on mountains, that our economy can afford to pass up hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few decades. Do you think that would fly? Do you think the other 1.3 million people living here should not have a say?
Part of not being marginalized is convincing others that your way is better. Say some fraction of 200,000 native Hawaiians believe in making Mauna Kea kapu to more telescopes. Being generous, say it's 50%, or 100,000, instead of the 25% in the 2018 survey. So 100,000 people have to convince the other 1,300,000 people living here that they know better, they should be in charge, their religious views are the right ones, there should be kapu on building on mountains, that our economy can afford to pass up hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few decades. Do you think that would fly? Do you think the other 1.3 million people living here should not have a say?