{"id":5358,"date":"2005-10-17T16:18:39","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T23:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2005-10-17T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T23:18:39","slug":"native-blood-quantum-at-issue-in-federal-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5358","title":{"rendered":"“Native blood quantum at issue in federal suit”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Honolulu Advertiser<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A lawsuit filed by five Hawaiians claims that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is illegally spending dollars reserved for the benefit of those with 50 percent Hawaiian blood or more.\n<\/p>\n

\nAll nine OHA trustees as well as two former trustees are named in the suit, which states that they “expended trust funds without regard to the blood quantum contained in the definition of native Hawaiians” as spelled out in the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe lawsuit was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court.\n<\/p>\n

\nOHA administrator Clyde Namu’o said he wanted to discuss the points of the litigation with attorneys to determine whether the case has merit. He declined to comment on the specifics of the lawsuit until then.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe trustees, the lawsuit said, have spent trust funds in lobbying Congress for passage of the Akaka bill, which seeks to create a government entity that would represent all with Hawaiian blood regardless of their quantum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nNot surprisingly—but certainly ironically—our institutional obsession with keeping alive “race”<\/a> and identity politics<\/a> has led us to the point where race is being used by certain purportedly aggrieved groups as a way to beat back race-neutrality in favor of group identity entitlements based around the idea of essentialism (which I’ve argued <\/a>necessarily<\/i> underlies notions of “race)”.  That is, we’ve returned to the thinking that animated the One Drop Rule<\/a>—only now we’ve managed to flip the terms so that the formerly aggrieved are assuming the position of power over determining identity designations.\n<\/p>\n

\nHow anyone can argue that this is not the natural (structural) offshoot of a culture that continues to support legally sanctioned race-based “discrimination” (in the strictest sense) is beyond me.  In fact, this kind of lawsuit should act as a direct rebuke against identity politics, the superficial color-fetishizing of the “diversity” movement, and—in particular—the kind of results-based judicial pragmatism that allows us to persist with the anti-individualist program of group-based politics that has turned our democracy into a calculus of warring voting blocs pandered to by necessarily opportunistic politicians.\n<\/p>\n

\nNotes Roger Clegg<\/a> at the Corner, in his review of the thinking behind this 1920 Act:<\/p>\n

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Compare First Regulation to the Reichs Citzenship Law of November 14, 1935: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201c1. A Jew is anyone who descended from at least three grandparents who were racially full Jews. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 2. A Jew is also one who descended from two full Jewish parents \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIndeed.  This is a goosestep backward in our country’s racialist past—and it makes perfect sense, given the way we persistently (and “progressively”) seek to redress wrongs in wayw that fliy in the face of our own Constitution, leaving us vulnerable to the erosion of individual liberties through the law of unintended consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Honolulu Advertiser: A lawsuit filed by five Hawaiians claims that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is illegally spending dollars reserved for the benefit of those with 50 percent Hawaiian blood or more. All nine OHA trustees as well as two former trustees are named in the suit, which states that they “expended trust funds without regard to the blood quantum contained in the definition of native Hawaiians” as<\/p>\n

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