There are so many aspects to the problems in Hawaii. There is no going back to Hawaiian rule, they have Niihau, sort of. The stone age Hawaiian culture was not that mellow, either. There was cannibalism, for instance, as in many stone age Pacific Islands cultures. ANd currently many of the Hawaiian activists are serious extremists.
Now the corruptocrats ruling the state are not just haole but Hawaiian and Japanese and other races/ethncities. When I lived there the Hawaiian mafia had huge control, don’t know if it’s still the same, also the Chinese triad system was also powerful. So the problem is corruption, which needs to be rooted out. How? I don’t know. The tourism based economy is a recipe for corruption, that is part of the recipe.
YEah I did know the haoles were edged out of political power but I have to believe they didn’t give up the m-o-n-e-y and then again the other races aren’t any less avaricious than the haoles when it comes right down to it. Perhaps it was the measles that wiped out 9/10s of the Hawaiians and what’s left has really only been a remnant ever since. Went from about 400,000 to about 40,000 in something like only 10 years.