While HHC/DHHL has been run by the state since statehood (hence why you're saying these administrators are now insiders as compared to the U.S. Congress in 1920-1959, is that what you're saying?), Oliver's notion that “Hawaii has long been run for the benefit of everyone but Hawaiians” probably still applies as while HHC/DHHL has done well with leasing out homestead lands to generate profits for the state, they haven't performed as well actually fulfilling their legally mandated Purpose - "to enable native Hawaiians to return to their lands in order to fully support self-sufficiency for native Hawaiians and the self-determination of native Hawaiians in the administration of this Act, and the preservation of the values, traditions, and culture of native Hawaiians."
Is requiring only 4 of 9 HHC members have not less than 25% Hawaiian blood make the Commission enough of an insider to these issues, or is the state agency still acting as outsiders? Not really for me to say, but looking at larger trends worldwide, I would be more inclined to move towards a Land Back approach where large swaths of Homestead lands are turned over to various Hawaiian groups for them to manage and determine how best to proceed for the benefit of their community, instead of the state dictating high-cost suburban style development that continually fails to provide the ability to "return to their lands in order to fully support self-sufficiency for native Hawaiians."
Hard not to see how government at all levels here has failed, and continues to fail, even from the outside.
Is requiring only 4 of 9 HHC members have not less than 25% Hawaiian blood make the Commission enough of an insider to these issues, or is the state agency still acting as outsiders? Not really for me to say, but looking at larger trends worldwide, I would be more inclined to move towards a Land Back approach where large swaths of Homestead lands are turned over to various Hawaiian groups for them to manage and determine how best to proceed for the benefit of their community, instead of the state dictating high-cost suburban style development that continually fails to provide the ability to "return to their lands in order to fully support self-sufficiency for native Hawaiians."
Hard not to see how government at all levels here has failed, and continues to fail, even from the outside.