Akaka Amendment Dead

[Annie]

Good thing, would have put the native Hawaiians at the same point as Native Americans, we know how well that has worked out:


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Race-Based Government in Hawaii Defeated

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01:57 PM - June 8th, 2006

It is a core moral and constitutional principle of the United States that equal protection of our laws and equal participation in our government should never again be denied to Americans because of race or ethnicity. And it is a clear provision of our Constitution that American states be guaranteed a “Republican Form of Government.” Both would be endangered by Senator Akaka’s Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, which was just defeated on the Senate floor moments ago.

Senator Akaka’s legislation would have created a new, independent government within our country – a government defined by and composed of a specific racial group. Worse still, Senator Akaka recently made clear that this race-based government would have been under no obligation to remain within the United States or to adhere to the most basic of our political principles: “[T]he governing entity will make a decision as to what happens to independence or returning to the monarchy.”

I am amazed and saddened that some would undo the great success story of Hawaiian assimilation into our country that we’ve seen since the people of Hawaii voted overwhelming to become America’s 50th state in 1959.

Vital issues of the greatest consequence face our Nation. If this to be another American Century, we must affirm and strengthen those principles and values that unite our people and oppose the fragmentation of our government and our society along racial and ethnic lines. That’s why I am proud to have voted to defeat Senator Akaka’s proposal and proud that the United States Senate has shown the common-sense to reject this divisive legislation once and for all.

Written by Bill Frist, M.D.

 

[5stringJeff]

Bill Frist is an idiot. But he's right. This bill was nothing but trouble.

 

[Annie]

Bill Frist is an idiot. But he's right. This bill was nothing but trouble.

I wouldn't vote for him for dog catcher.

 

[jasendorf]

Akaka knew it didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell... but he's got a constituency to listen to.


As a side note, the Republicans sure are throwing around the word "assimilation" a lot these past few months. Why do I think that we're going to see a lot of Trekkies voting Dem in the near future?

 

[theHawk]

Akaka knew it didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell... but he's got a constituency to listen to.


As a side note, the Republicans sure are throwing around the word "assimilation" a lot these past few months. Why do I think that we're going to see a lot of Trekkies voting Dem in the near future?

This Trekkie certainly won't be voting Dem in the near future.

 

[William Joyce]

I don't know. Ethnic self-determination may well be the future of The Country Formerly Known as America.

In Iraq, now that Saddam has fallen, the land is falling to its natural state: Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. Some have proposed that Iraq be broken into three states, accordingly. Absent that, the sectarian violence will either not stop or require brutal measures to put down.

The U.S. isn't so different. Once 90 percent white, it's now flooded with a massive group of Hispanics who demand that their race, culture and Spanish language be given reign. Some blacks seek their own nation. Some whites seek theirs.

Why not? It may not solve all problems, but it at least buries the lie that all human beings are interchangeable. Way I see it, keeping up the multiracial lie is far more costly than acknowledging how things really are. Maybe giving Hawaiians some autonomy isn't such a bad idea.