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

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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.

My Brother’s Keeper

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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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Legislating Fictional History

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HCR82 Bill Status

Despite being informed of the nature of the Joke Proclamation upon which HCR82 is based, only one member of the Hawaii Senate Committee apparently minded passing a bill commemorating a hoax.

Senator Kokubun was sent the following message before his vote in favor of commemorating the hoax:

Aloha Mr. Kokubun!

As a fellow Punahou alumnus, I thought I'd drop you a note regarding
HCR82, which has recently been referred to your committee.

Perhaps the legislators are not aware, but the proclamation of Grover
Cleveland mentioned in HCR 82 is being incorrectly cited.

The actual proclamation did not mention April 30th, but "the first day of
April next", i.e., April 1st.  The proclamation is not in any of
Cleveland's letters or papers, but was printed in the New York Sun on
February 27, 1894 on page 6.

For more details regarding this proclamation, including images of the
original newspaper printing of this proclamation, please see:
http://morganreport.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Joke_Proclamation

More detailed information regarding President Cleveland, and his changing
reactions to the Hawaiian Revolution can be found here:
http://morganreport.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Rest_of_The_Rest_of_The_Story

There are, of course, other major inaccuracies in HCR 82, but this one
seems the most egregious.  I can only assume that it would be fairly
embarrassing for the Hawaii legislature to pass a bill based on a hoax.

Thank you very much for your time and attention to this matter, and if you
have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Mahalo!

-jere krischel

Perhaps they’ll recommend passage of a bill establishing October 30th as Martian Welcoming Day, based upon the Martian landing in 1938 at Grover’s Mill.

Honolulu Magazine

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Honolulu Magazine

Scrap Yard: The Akaka Bill

Meheula fails to recognize that the irony is that native Hawaiians asking for special racial treatment today are forsaking the wisdom of their kupuna. He states:

That’s just the Hawaiian way, to include others. It doesn’t make sense to say that Hawaiians programs are in violation of the equal protection clause because the Hawaiian government before the overthrow was an inclusive one.

What doesn’t make sense is having racially exclusive programs in Hawaii today, since they never existed during the entire time Hawaii has ever been under a single government. They are both a violation of equal protection, as well as the historical record of equality in the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Meheula also writes:

They also object to any type of affirmative action, and they’re just trying to find an angle to try and cut off people’s rights in that respect. Their philosophy is that everyone should sink or swim, and that’s how we’re all going to be a stronger America—that, by handing out these government benefits, we’re actually suppressing the growth of these weaker people.

I would submit to Mr. Meheula that native Hawaiians have never been a “weaker people”, and that we can identify those who need help without looking at their racial background. The “sink or swim” argument is completely separate from the race-based benefits issue – and in fact, if one was to use scarce government resources to hand out benefits to people, using race as a proxy for need would be a significant waste. If Mr. Meheula truly wants to help people, he’ll stop looking at the color of their skin, and start looking at their individual demonstrated need.