Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 8, 1 August 2001 — Stupidity tax [ARTICLE]

Stupidity tax

I'm sorry to say that onee again, a single white person has risen up here in Hawai'i, and with a loud shout, demanded to be given more of what Native Hawaiians have left. How shamefully embarrassing to all the rest of us American folks who are trying to make amends and learn aloha from nā kanaka maoli. A destitute European-American man from California comes to O'ahu and demands some Hawaiian

homelands, money from Native Hawaiian programs, and suddenly the U.S. courts are considering it as a valid case of "racial discrimination." Why not send this man to Window Rock in the Navajo Nation to "stake a elaim," just like in the old pioneer days, according to the cowboy version of "constitutionality?" Mr. Barrett, you are a social stigma we have worked long and hard here to heal, you loud-mouthed, insensitive clod! You have absolutely no right to demand anything from Native Hawaiians' programs or their finances! If anything, you owe the kanaka maoli some kind of stupidity tax, or at least an apology! Hopefully, this case is headed for the dust bins of history, but as Rice and President George Bush have showed us, the corporate cowboys will not cease to amaze us while pillaging what's left of the world. The Fourth Reich is smiling beneath elown paint, serving up burgers and soda, robbing our grandparents and our children all the while. B.Z. Evans Hawai'i Nui