Justice for Hawaiians

Senator Daniel Akaka does not post a direct link to the Akaka Bill on his website. Instead he posts press releases boasting about it when it is not something to boast about.

There is something inherently troubling when he posts his interpretation of the bill without a direct hyperlink to the information and how he posts basically bragging and boasting that it’s a great thing without posting the actual link to the information. As expected Senator Akaka does not explain how to find it or even where to find it which seems shady to me.

Here they are:

Go here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c111query.html

Choose “111th Congress” then enter “Native” Hawaiian but without the quotation marks

Look for H.R.1711 and S.1011.

It’s that easy. However it seems a bit shady that he does not post a link to the actual bill.

More later on the Akaka Bill and why I think it does a disservice not only to Hawaiians who are citizens of Ko Hawai’i Pae Aina but also to citizens of the United States.

Just say No to the Akaka Bill.

Later I will be updating this Wordpress as well as writing about Ehu Kekahu Cardwell. While I realize that some people want to suppress the truth, I believe in full disclosure so of course I give kudos to Ehu Kekahu Cardwell and to people like him. I will write more about him later and why I think that he ironically helps make America a better place for all.

Yes… comments are still turned off since some people refuse to be mature and civil when discussing Hawaiians and/or Hawaiian issues.

Aloha,
Lana Ululani Robbins

When I was a little girl I listened to Jon Osorio and Randy Borden singing “Hawaiian Eyes” (1977):

As of about 1996 he has had a PhD and has taught at the University of Hawai’i Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies

More “impressive” to me is that he is the President of Kāko`o `Ōiwi:

http://www.nativehawaii.org/aboutus.htm

I find it ironic that he sang “Hawaiian Eyes” only to be some Hawaiian eyes that is watching the watchers.

Kudos to Dr. Osorio. We need more people like him to watch the watchers.

One of my next posts will be about the Akaka Bill aka the Native Hawaiian Government “Reorganization” Act which is really the Native Hawaiian LAND Reorganization Act which is being used as a tool to try to set up a trust relationship between Hawaiians and their legal heirs and the Federal Government without the consent of Hawaiians and their legal heirs who still hold title to some land in Ko Hawai’i Pae Aina.

Other topics that I will post about include but is not limited to the following:

• The bright “stars” who are some of the hope of the Hawaiian po’e (i.e. people)… and the next generations
• Mental/emotional warfare against the Hawaiian
• Media bias in the Honolulu Starbulletin and Honolulu Advertiser

Just to name a few.

As for comments since some people still refuse to discuss issues with intelligence and resort to personal attacks I have decided to continue to restrict comments. This is specifically for those who are racist against Hawaiians and have come here to post their racist vitriol that single out and target Hawaiians based on their national origin (i.e. Ko Hawai’i Pae Aina also known as the “Hawaiian Kingdom” in English.) These racists resort to personal attacks and are unable to do so in my blog. It’s unfortunate that some people are racist against Hawaiians based on their national origin.

However I will continue to write about Hawaiians. This website (like my other websites) is dedicated to the children of Wakea, Papa, and Haloa.

A hui hou
Lana Ululani Robbins

The last time I have updated was in September 2008. My apologies.

I have been busy trying to raise money to donate to my causes by working over 60 hours per week. That is partly why I have been so busy.

I have even adopted two more dogs from the SPCA. They keep me busy so nowadays I have three dogs two who are from SPCA and Fluffy the cat. She is from the SPCA too

I will be overhauling this website when I have time.

Thank you SO MUCH for your patience and understanding.

Aloha,
Lana Ululani Robbins

While many Hawaiians are busy trying to survive, I read this article in the New York Times:

“Michelle Obama Adds New Role to Balancing Act”

The writers wrote:

While her husband’s story is singular — how many other Hawaiian-Indonesian-African-Midwestern sensations are there?

Senator Obama is not Hawaiian by ethnicity nor by nationality (i.e. the Hawaiian Kingdom.) This disrespect to Hawaiians is no surprise to us but fortunately one of us caught this and wrote a letter to the editors as well as to the two writers.

I wrote this to them:

To the Editor:

I am surprised that an inaccuracy passed the desks of the editors at the New York Times in this story about Barack Obama which does a disservice to Hawaiians. Writers Jodi Kantor and Jeff Zeleny inaccurately described Senator Obama as follows:

“While her husband’s story is singular — how many other Hawaiian-Indonesian-African-Midwestern sensations are there?”

In this article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/us/politics/18michelle.html?hp

It’s not only inaccurate. It is also disrespectful to some Hawaiians. He is not Hawaiian by ethnicity nor by nationality (i.e. the Hawaiian Kingdom.) Some Hawaiians perceive this as disrespectful and/or insulting. Please be mindful of us, Hawaiians, who read your paper. Mahalo.

I am not the only Hawaiian who feels this way. Sadly, some people still continue to disrespect us.

Recently Ken Conklin PhD who to me seems very racist against Hawaiians recently published a book called “Hawaiian Apartheid - Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State” that directly singles out and targets Hawaiians based on our national origin. Reviews were posted at Amazon.com here:

April 8th review by Lorenz R. Gonschor of Honolulu, Hawaii

Titled: “A lonely man hates all things Hawaiian”

Being myself a student of contemporary political issues in the Pacific, I read Conklin’s book with the intent to get an idea of how opponents of Hawaiian sovereignty rationalize their opposition to it. However, very early in the book it becomes clear that the author does not intend to provide a rationally based critical analysis of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, but rather a polemic display of hatred against everything Hawaiian. The quality of the text is very poor, and the style astonishingly un-academic for someone claiming to have a Ph.D. Besides frequent repetitions of the same facts in different chapters, most astonishing is his referencing system: About half of the footnotes do not reference any outside sources but provide links to the author’s own website. If there is no evidence supporting his point, Conklin simply cites himself.

His claims that the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was legal and that there was no conspiracy between the local Caucasian leaders of the overthrow and the US military is in clear contradiction to historical facts. As the sole source for his erroneous and misleading narrative of the 1893 overthrow, Conklin references a website set up by himself and some of his friends about the Morgan report (which was a whitewash orchestrated by pro-annexationist members of the US congress in 1894) but does not even mention the diametrically opposed findings of the Blount report of 1893 that were based on a thorough investigation by a special commissioner sent to Hawaii by the U.S. president. Both the Blount report and Ralph Kuykendall’s standard history of the Hawaiian Kingdom clearly point out that there was indeed a conspiracy between the insurgents and the US diplomatic representative who landed the US troops.

Conklin becomes even more polemic and un-scholarly when he describes contemporary Hawaiian activists. Movements to revive the traditional Hawaiian religion and the use of religious ceremonies in political protests are labelled “Hawaiian Jihad” and “Aggressive religious fascism”, as if there was any similarity between a peaceful Hawaiian pule (prayer) for pono (righteousness) and aloha (compassion), and fanatics calling for holy war against non-believers. No Hawaiian political activist has ever used violence against anyone, let alone based calls for violence on religious fanaticism. In fact the total absence of violence in the Hawaiian movement is one of its striking characteristics that makes it almost unique in the world. Whereas in most other comparable situations of contested sovereignty in the world there are always radical elements at the margin of the movement that engage in violent struggle, even the most radical wings of the Hawaiian movement are totally committed to non-violence. Conklin’s chapter on alleged violence is thus entirely humbug. In fact what he recounts is no violence at all but merely some statements that, if taken out of context, might under certain circumstances be interpreted as mere threats of violence. His most outrageous statement is his claim that the alleged racism of Hawaiian activists is “far more dangerous” than the historic racism by whites against blacks. Given the fact that no politically motivated violence has ever been committed by Hawaiian activists, does he intend to either ignore or insult the millions of African-Americans who suffered under slavery and the thousands that became victims of lynching?

Having lived in Hawaii for several years, I personally know most of the Hawaiian sovereignty activist labelled by Conklin as “Racists”, “Fascists” or “Terrorists”. None of them comes even close to any of those descriptions. Instead they are passionate community leaders, struggling for the welfare of their people, and intending to correct the tremendous injustices existing in present-day Hawaii. In doing so they display lots of aloha to everyone. Conklin states that he came to Hawai’i because “it was easier to feel the presence of the gods in Hawaii than anywhere else”. This is true indeed. It just seems to me that Conklin doesn’t want to feel it himself.

Source: Amazon.com reviews

And another review that Don Deboer PhD wrote on April 26, 2007

Titled: A Reaction To Facing One’s Own Guilt and Privilege

I am a Native Hawaiian meaning that I am part of the Hawaiian Geneology and I also have a Ph.D. I am not Hawaiian the same way I would say I am Californian if I lived in California. I mentioned the Ph.D. because Ken Conklin mentions his and I want to see more Hawaiians with Ph.D.s defining themselves and their history. I am also part white. I’ve grown up seeing at least two sides to every story. So imagine my hurt and disappointment when I see this side of the story.

A story about somebody who wants to rob what little is left of the Hawaiian people: namely their identity. Hawaii was once it’s own kingdom where the majority of people were Hawaiian, lived in harmony with the land, and spoke the Hawaiian language. Today they are minorities in their own ancestral home and frequently struggle with the ills that frequently accompany the long term consequences of colonization. It is hard for me to grow up and see my own people suffering the way they do (e.g. homelessness, health problems). I am not about to romanticize ancient Hawaii but I know a defeated people when I see one. Thank God Hawaiians still have their identity, pride, and ability to preserve some remnants of our culture.

So here comes a non Hawaiian who moves from the mainland and works actively to strip what little is left of the Hawaiian people. This book adds insult to injury. You see, Conklin believes that the Hawaiians were not on Hawaii long enough to claim they are indigenous people. He feels that they are no more indigenous than he is. When Hawaiians work actively to hang on to what little is left for them he likes to call that racism and apartheid. I know non Hawaiians who have showed respect to the Hawaiian people and actually let us define ourselves. They actually know how to listen. These are people we have loved and welcomed into our own families. This is how my mother and father met.

Perhaps Conklin cannot face his own privledge so he defends against these feelings by stating that it is he and other non Hawaiians who are the true victims of discrimination. With that attitude and lack of respect [sic] he will never be adopted into the Hawaiian ohana and will always feel like an outsider. Too bad.

Source: Amazon.com reviews

In addition, we should not tolerate his racism against us based on our national origin (i.e. the Hawaiian Kingdom.) Fortunately these two people are not tolerating Conklin’s racism.

We need more people like them in this world where racism against a group of people based on their national origin is not tolerated.

Comments are disabled for that reason. Unfortunately a couple of racist people have felt compelled to leave harassing comments here so I have disabled comments. However it is important for the entire world to know how Conklin and others like him continue to attack and harass us Hawaiians based on our national origin. This should never be tolerated.

In this letter to the editor, Ken Conklin PhD fails to mention that he repeatedly tried to bite a Hawaiian woman’s finger. Here is a still of the incident:

Here is the raw footage courtesy of KHNL of Ken Conklin PhD trying to physically bite her finger:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5301211

He forgot to mention this in his letter which singles out and targets Hawaiians based on our national origin:

Rudeness replaces aloha for patriotism

Sovereignty protesters used a sound system, bullhorns and in-your-face shouting to disrupt Statehood Day celebrations (Star-Bulletin, Aug. 19). They terrorized a high school band into leaving before the music could be played.

Five days later, I attended a blessing ceremony to open a $23 million renovation project at Windward Mall. Kamehameha Schools owns the mall.

I am an active opponent of Kamehameha’s racist admissions policy. But I left my bullhorn at home. I did not go to the podium, interrupt any speakers, yell or stick my finger in their faces. I did not harass the school kids performing right next to my seat.

A large American flag hangs permanently above center-stage; yet there was no Pledge of Allegiance. When everyone stood to sing “Hawaii Pono’i” I sat down because the U.S. national anthem was not also sung. That was my protest. I believe the anthem and pledge were deliberately excluded for fear that some in attendance would be disrespectful. That’s how bad things have gotten.

At the end we all joined hands and I sang along –”Hawai’i Aloha.” Indeed. Let’s hope so.

Aloha ke Akua. Aloha kakou.

Kenneth R. Conklin
Kaneohe

Seen at http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/27/editorial/letters.html

Unfortunately the Honolulu Starbulletin allowed Ken Conklin PhD to use their paper as a tool to try to spread racism against Hawaiians.

The Honolulu Advertiser helped him use their paper as a tool to try to spread racism against us Hawaiians too:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/OPINION02/608270302/1104

In this letter to the editor, Ken Conklin PhD fails to mention that he repeatedly tried to bite a Hawaiian woman’s finger. Here is a still of the incident:

Here is the raw footage courtesy of KHNL of Ken Conklin PhD trying to physically bite her finger:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5301211

He forgot to mention this in his letter which singles out and targets Hawaiians based on our national origin:

Rudeness replaces aloha for patriotism

Sovereignty protesters used a sound system, bullhorns and in-your-face shouting to disrupt Statehood Day celebrations (Star-Bulletin, Aug. 19). They terrorized a high school band into leaving before the music could be played.

Five days later, I attended a blessing ceremony to open a $23 million renovation project at Windward Mall. Kamehameha Schools owns the mall.

I am an active opponent of Kamehameha’s racist admissions policy. But I left my bullhorn at home. I did not go to the podium, interrupt any speakers, yell or stick my finger in their faces. I did not harass the school kids performing right next to my seat.

A large American flag hangs permanently above center-stage; yet there was no Pledge of Allegiance. When everyone stood to sing “Hawaii Pono’i” I sat down because the U.S. national anthem was not also sung. That was my protest. I believe the anthem and pledge were deliberately excluded for fear that some in attendance would be disrespectful. That’s how bad things have gotten.

At the end we all joined hands and I sang along –”Hawai’i Aloha.” Indeed. Let’s hope so.

Aloha ke Akua. Aloha kakou.

Kenneth R. Conklin
Kaneohe

Seen at http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/27/editorial/letters.html

Unfortunately the Honolulu Starbulletin allowed Ken Conklin PhD to use their paper as a tool to try to spread racism against Hawaiians.

The Honolulu Advertiser helped him use their paper as a tool to try to spread racism against us Hawaiians too:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/OPINION02/608270302/1104

In this letter to the editor, Ken Conklin PhD fails to mention that he repeatedly tried to bite a Hawaiian woman’s finger. Here is a still of the incident:

Here is the raw footage courtesy of KHNL of Ken Conklin PhD trying to physically bite her finger:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5301211

He forgot to mention this in his letter which singles out and targets Hawaiians based on our national origin:

Rudeness replaces aloha for patriotism

Sovereignty protesters used a sound system, bullhorns and in-your-face shouting to disrupt Statehood Day celebrations (Star-Bulletin, Aug. 19). They terrorized a high school band into leaving before the music could be played.

Five days later, I attended a blessing ceremony to open a $23 million renovation project at Windward Mall. Kamehameha Schools owns the mall.

I am an active opponent of Kamehameha’s racist admissions policy. But I left my bullhorn at home. I did not go to the podium, interrupt any speakers, yell or stick my finger in their faces. I did not harass the school kids performing right next to my seat.

A large American flag hangs permanently above center-stage; yet there was no Pledge of Allegiance. When everyone stood to sing “Hawaii Pono’i” I sat down because the U.S. national anthem was not also sung. That was my protest. I believe the anthem and pledge were deliberately excluded for fear that some in attendance would be disrespectful. That’s how bad things have gotten.

At the end we all joined hands and I sang along –”Hawai’i Aloha.” Indeed. Let’s hope so.

Aloha ke Akua. Aloha kakou.

Kenneth R. Conklin
Kaneohe

Seen at http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/27/editorial/letters.html

Unfortunately the Honolulu Starbulletin allowed Ken Conklin PhD to use their paper as a tool to try to spread racism against Hawaiians.

The Honolulu Advertiser helped him use their paper as a tool to try to spread racism against us Hawaiians too:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/OPINION02/608270302/1104