Aloha, Segregation

Wall Street Journal ^ | DECEMBER 17, 2009

[kingattax]

crazier and crazier

[Da Coyote]

I’d give them freedom from all taxes...and we mainlanders also have freedome from giving them medicare, medicade, social security, welfare, etc. Fair deal.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Perhaps we only need 49 states (or 56 in President Obama’s math.)

[boomop1]

But think of the casinos.

[Locomotive Breath]

Can we put them on the reservation and keep them there?

[skr]

As long as the U.S. no longer has to spend money on them, give them an island and let them be as Hawaiian as they would like to be.

[GeorgeTex]

Amen, brother! If the natives don’t like us, then we will keep our money and let them become another enlightened tropical island chain. I will not set foot on their islands until they decide to be Americans, again.

[xjcsa]

Proponents say the plan would duplicate the legal scenario set up for Native Americans...

Right, because that's worked out so well.

[Vendome]

"If ethnic Hawaiians can be accorded tribal status, why not Chicanos in the Southwest? Or Cajuns in Louisiana?"

 

Uhm, because those are not distinct ethnicities.

 

Oh, and I don't care for the Akaka bill.

[GeronL]

Can Freepers get tribal status?

[smokingfrog]

Hawaii has 8 major islands, so we could turn each one into a state and that would give us 57. Just imagine 14 more democrats in the senate!

[Tarpon]

If we dump Hawaii does Akaka go with it?

[NonValueAdded]

IIRC all it would take is one great-great-grandparent. Pro’ly have to show your birth certificate, though.

[Mount Athos]

terrible. I pray this can be stopped

[pogo101]

We stole that state fair and square. In the 1850s or something. It was still legal then.

/tongue in cheek

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Lived in HI for 3 years - the native racism is well known to all whites, Japs, and others. When I was there, the self proclaimed natives would take over state parks and live there year round. God help the wayward white that would stumble into a HI state park. They stayed drunk most of the day. Don’t have a clue how they got money. Sen Inoyu passed legislation the last year I was there prohibiting DoD from discharging any main land service members in HI. This forced us to go through discharge in Camp Pendleton. Hate the little HI hitlers. Aloha - Shaka Bro - eat Sh*T and die.

[Secret Agent Man]

I thought the japanese and chinese have pretty much taken over hawaii anyway right now.

[Vendome]

Can’t I just direct them to my website, where they can view my Certification of Live Birth?

[BenKenobi]

We did this up here. Don’t do it, or you’ll pay the consequences. Horrible situation. Whatever you do, don’t do like the Indian act and distribute benefits based on race.

[Verginius Rufus]

If native Hawaiians are “Indians,” then why don’t they do the same for the Chamorros of Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands, and for the Samoans of American Samoa? Same logic.