Posted on 05/28/2014 7:48:58 AM PDT by John S Mosby
President Barack Obamas administration has quietly suggested it is willing to create a two-tier race-based legal system in Hawaii, where one set of taxes, spending and law enforcement will govern one race, and the second set of laws will govern every other race.
The diversity proposal is portrayed as an effort to create a separate in-state government for people who are native Hawaiians.
If Obama succeeds, whats to prevent creating similar [self-governing racial] groups out of say, Cajuns, or Orthodox Jews or Amish? said Gail Heriot, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
If you can do that with groups that are already part of the mainstream, you can balkanize the country, said Heriot, who is a law professor at the University of San Diego.
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No Punahou is just the run of the mill elite-rich 1%er school. Anyone can attend if you can fork up the bucks. No doubt Punahou gives scholarships to those it feels it needs to enrich and multi-culturalize its campus - maybe like The One - although his grandparents were well off.
Bernice Pauahi Bishop ( she married white guy Charles Bishop who started First Hawaiian Bank ) bequeathed all her lands for the establishment of a school for Hawaiian children. Bernice Pauahi Bishop, great grand-daughter of King Kamehameha I, was land rich on all the islands
( including Waikiki on Oahu). Today her estate, Kamehameha Schools, owns 365,000 acres of land.
Students that get accepted basically get a free education. Yearly tuition rarely exceeds $1000 a yr.
http://www.ksbe.edu/pauahi/bio.php
How someone would prove "native" ancestry whose only connection was one great-great-grandparent, I don't know. It might be easy enough to determine the typical DNA types of pureblooded Hawaiians (but how to tell them apart from other Polynesians?) since there are some still living, but probably the part-Hawaiians are far more numerous.
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