Governor, Legislature shouldn't mess with I-200
By Edward Blum and Roger Clegg
January 26, 2004


In this guest column in the Seattle Times, the writers analyze Washington State's continuing struggle with racial discrimination in university admissions. Washington state's governor is trying to overturn a 1998 initiative on the subject, I-200. which forbids the state from treating a person differently based on his or her skin color or ethnic heritage..

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The 'Indigenous Peoples' Supremacy Movement
By Stuart K. Hayashi
January 20, 2004

Shoots from the Grassroot Institute

Stuart K. Hayashi is a research intern at the
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. See its Web site at:
http://www.grassrootinstitute.org/

He argues here that all ethnicities should receive equal treatment under the law.

Hayashi is the founder of a news Web log, "The
Fiftieth Star," at: http://50thstar.blogspot.com to be
unofficially centered around activities at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa.

His older editorials can be seen at:
http://reason_club.tripod.com/stuart_editorials.html

and he can be reached at:
radical_individualist@hotmail.com









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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against OHA
By Vicki Viotti, Advertiser Staff Writer
January 20, 2004

A federal judge yesterday dismissed a case challenging the constitutionality of government programs for Native Hawaiians, ruling that the court should not interfere with the ongoing congressional debate over Hawaiians' political status.

While the Congress does have a bill under consideration, there has been no debate nor have any hearing been held in the four years the proposed bill has been in the hopper.

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Apology to Hawaiians forgot rest of kingdom's loyal subjects
by Thurston Twigg-Smith
November 26, 2003

Non-Hawaiian subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom are being ignored in the discussions of sovereignty and compensation that have grown out of the 1893 revolution and the 1993 Congressional Resolution of Apology.

But non-Hawaiians constituted a majority of those affected by the revolution, and their descendants and other non-Hawaiians are a majority of the present electorate. Approval by that majority will be needed for the success of most sovereignty goals, insofar as they depend on state assets and approval.

It seems time for the sovereignty movement to back off of its harmful and divisive race-based rhetoric and begin discussions with the majority of Hawaii's residents.

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