“The widely reported denial of water by M. Kaleo Manuel, the deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, to fight the fires led to national outrage, but local pro-Polynesian activists and the media rallied to his defense since what he was really defending was ‘native cultivation’ against the sugar cane plantations.”
No, what he was really doing was denying the ability to fight deadly fires.
Tribalism is incompatible with representative government.
I guess the next stat that’s needed is how many hoales died compared to the Kānaka Maoli death toll. You can bet your bottom dollar somebody’s working those numbers up. They dissemination will be underground of course.
I’ve worked all over the place in Southeast Asia and Western Pacific, visited many islands on the ships I was working on and one thing I know there are the “come here’s” and there are the “from here’s” - heck that’s true in ‘hoods, small towns, and regions across America. I reakon it’s part of our human nature.
. It will be very hard to separate disdain from malice
I haven't seen a breakdown by race on those impacted by the fire, but I'd be surprised if native Hawaiians weren't at the top of the list.