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All letters must be typed, signed and not exceed 200 words. Letters cannot be published unless they include a telephone contact for verification. Send letters to Ka Wai Ola, 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500, Honolulu, HI 96813, or email [email protected]. Akaka Bill opinion it educates the public about not twice, but three times in her but that is only very recently when This responds to the summary Hawaiians, their history and short piece. In response, I will just you look at it historically. And, it about me in your recent “Who’s the plight of their neediest point out that it is the Akaka bill was only after most of the Native Board of Trustees Who.” No one at the Commission constituents. Hawai‘i would not – not its critics – that would use a Hawaiian population had been on Civil Rights asked, and I have be Hawai‘i without Hawaiians. one-drop rule to create a favored killed off by foreign diseases, so not expressed, my opinion on the Whether the Hawai‘i Advisory racial group. Hawaiians that were left standing Akaka Bill, an opinion which is Committee ever votes to express Roger Clegg had little choice on who to marry! haunani Apoliona, MsW Chairperson, Trustee, At-large now evolving as a result of public an opinion — or not — on the Center for Equal Opportunity I’m not sure how Mr. Twigg- hearings being conducted by the Akaka Bill is for it to decide in the Smith defines intermarriage, but Tel: 808.594.1886 Hawai‘i Advisory Committee. I future after full public input on and Twigg-Smith my definition does not include the Fax: 808.594.1875 Email: [email protected] particularly appreciated hearing thoughtful consideration of this I read with bemusement the letter further obliteration of the Hawaiian the perspectives presented by most important civil rights issue. written by Thurston Twigg-Smith culture, or my surrendering it to your trustees, Haunani Apoliona Michael A. Lilly in response to Rowena Akana’s anything or anyone, and definitely John D. Waihe‘e iV Vice Chair, Trustee, At-large and Boyd Mossman, and attorney Chairperson, Hawai‘i Advisory thoughts on his registering with not to someone like Thurston Justice Robert Klein at the Sept. Committee to the Kau Inoa. Thurston’s comments – Twigg-Smith! Tel: 808.594.1838 5 session, as well as from other U.S. Commission on Civil Rights like so many other settler-families Although your words are Fax: 808.594.0208 Email: [email protected] members of the public, pro and in Hawai‘i before him – stink smooth and mellow, Mr. Twigg- con, at that and other meetings. Clegg testimony of blanket generalizations that Smith, I can see that your actions Rowena Akana To put my background into In your October issue, Rowena seriously lack any factual basis. are pilau and your intent hewa. Trustee, At-large better perspective, I am a keiki Akana (“Hawai’i’s hijacked Civil For him to claim that Hawai‘i has Kana‘iaupuni Gomes hänau o ka ‘äina in a family of Rights Advisory Committee”) “never been a place that separated Honolulu Tel: 808.594.1860 Fax: 808.594.0209 Hawaiian subjects and citizens criticizes the testimony that people on the basis of race” Email: [email protected] since the 1840s. An ancestor of I delivered in August before only underscores my point that E kala mai our family (J.S. Walker) was a Hawai‘i’s State Advisory Committee privilege – and, in this case, white In our October issue, we Donald B. Cataluna royalist, advisor and minister to the U.S. Commission on privilege – is severely blinding published an incorrect telephone Trustee, Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau to Hawaiian monarchs until, Civil Rights. In that testimony, and is still damaging and hurtful number for the Lau Ola clinic at Tel: 808.594.1881 according to Queen Lili‘uokalani’s I argued that the Akaka Bill is to Native Hawaiians till this day. Kuakini hospital, which is run Fax: 808.594.0211 book, his death in May 1893 “by unconstitutional as a matter of law He seems to forget that there by the UH Department of Native Email: [email protected] the treatment he received from and divisive and unfair as a matter were and are many institutions Hawaiian Health. The correct the hands of the revolutionists. of policy. who have denied, and continue to number is 294-1778. Doctors see Robert K. lindsey Jr. He was one of many who from Ms. Akana mischaracterizes my deny, access to Native Hawaiians. patients at the clinic four days a Trustee, Hawai‘i persecution had succumbed to testimony in a number of respects, Although it may not be expressly week, regardless of insurance. Tel: 808.594.1855 death.” I recall my grandfather but rather than address them all, I said in letter, it is said in practice. Fax: 808.594.1883 saying all his older royalist would just suggest that those who When you look at the make-up Email: [email protected] brothers were incarcerated in the are interested read my testimony of these institutions and businesses, Your Thoughts… Armory during the revolution. for themselves and make up their you still see a preference for non- Send them to Ka Wai Ola. Walter M. heen I provide this background to own minds. It is posted on the Hawaiians over any Hawaiian. Is All letters must be typed, signed and Trustee, O‘ahu assure you that whatever opinion Center for Equal Opportunity’s my grandparents being forbidden not exceed 200 words. 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