Suit on Kamehameha admissions dropped – The Honolulu Advertiser – Hawaii’s Newspaper

So how much did it cost KSBE to buy off this court case? Were our collective civil rights worth 1 million? 2 million? A billion?

Sigh. KSBE has their press release on the confidential settlement here.  I guess at this point we’ll have to wait for the next person unconstitutionally denied admission to Kamehameha Schools on the basis of race to file a lawsuit…of course depending on just how much it cost KSBE to pay off John Doe, they could just start handing out checks to people.

I started this blog on a very personal note, sharing the news of my wife and I expecting a child. Since then, on and off, I’ve mostly made very short comment on news stories of interest to me, and spent a little bit of time fighting the good fight for civil rights against racial separatists in Hawaii. But this entry is much different, and something difficult to share – but for the sake of my uncle Anthony Krischel, I feel that this story must be told.

This is the story of William Solomon, once William Joseph Krischel, my biological father who disappeared from me and my brother’s life when we were children. This sad man has spent the last six years of his life destroying his marriage, avoiding his children and grandchildren, frittering away his mother’s fortune, and since his mother passed away he has been stealing from his elder disabled brother Anthony Alonso Krischel, who was born with cerebral palsy and is legally blind. Allowed to continue unabated, my uncle will become yet another grim statistic of elder abuse, left homeless and lost.

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