12/21/2015
Could a state "Office of Caucasian Affairs" be part of the white future?The U.S. Supreme Court recently put a stop to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' attempts create a voter roll of native Hawaiians. The ultimate goal here was to run an election for delegates to some kind of constitutional convention on the future self-government of native Hawaiians.
In 2011 the state legislature created the Native Hawaiian Roll, a voluntary registration list of voters who, based on ancestry and blood quantum, could theoretically form a tribe. But participation was so low — nine months after its inception, only 9,300 Native Hawaiians had registered, compared with the goal of 200,000 — that the Roll Commission bolstered its numbers by importing names from other lists. Then, earlier this year, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs hired Na‘i Aupuni, a private organization with significant connections to the OHA and the Roll Commission, to conduct an election for delegates to a convention that would decide the format of a Native Hawaiian government. The state claimed this election was legal because it was a “private” poll, though it was paid for by state funds. [The Racial Spoils System Invents a Tribe for Native Hawaiians | The Supreme Court has stopped a race-based election, but not a planned constitutional convention, By Keli‘i Akina, WSJ, December 18, 2015]No doubt about it — however much they try to style it as a "private group", the bottom line is that tax dollars are funding a race-specific project. It’s raw enough that you can see the equal protection offense (though I note that when it comes to government spending, the Constitutional bar on race-specific action is lower).
The typical conservative reaction is to oppose such efforts. That makes some sense: why fork over cash for some other race when yours — the white race — gets nothing?
Hawaii itself is actually minority-white, and always has been.
It’s amazing to me that there exists, to begin with, an Office of Hawaiian Affairs — an entire government office dedicated to native Hawaiians, and exclusively native Hawaiians. They've got land (200,000 acres) and a budget of $50 million, the existence of which has not, apparently, been challenged.
Should whites get in on this action?
I say yes. The only practical way forward for the coming white minority is to acknowledge that we're players in a game that everyone but us is playing.
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