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Hawaiian Racism and the Maui Fires
Sultan Knish ^ | September 01, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 09/01/2023 3:40:15 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

........What looks like incompetence by government officials really reflects an ongoing racial conflict. Leftist activists, most of them white or black, have organized some activist Polynesian residents (often wrongly referred to as native Hawaiians) along the American Indian or Australian aboriginal model into their own system with extensive leverage over the bureaucracy.

Ongoing conflicts over water rights between plantations and so-called ‘native cultivation” led to a denial of water to fight the fires. The widely reported denial of water by M. Kaleo Manuel, the deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, to fight the fires led to national outrage, but local pro-Polynesian activists and the media rallied to his defense since what he was really defending was ‘native cultivation’ against the sugar cane plantations.

Even with the wildfires going on, the Hawaii Supreme Court rejected a petition from the state government to free up water to fight the fires. The state was not allowed to divert water from that being wasted for “customary Hawaiian practices and ecological balance”.

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And denying the plantations the water they needed to fight fires, like the Kunzelman assault, was about striking a blow against the hated ‘Haoles’ who colonized the land after the Polynesians had originally colonized it by enslaving the original inhabitants, tattooing their heads and then using them as human sacrifices while making Captain Cook look like a saint.

The ‘missteps’ that killed people, from failing to sound the sirens to setting up a barricade that blocked drivers trying to escape the fires, are typical of an insular society where things are often done informally and outsider ‘Haoles’ are deliberately denied the information they need unless they have lived there long enough to cultivate relationships and get a feel for what is going on

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fire; greenfield; hawaii; maui; mauifire; murder; racist; water
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SOOOO, all those deaths begin to look like systemic murder.
1 posted on 09/01/2023 3:40:15 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

(often wrongly referred to as native Hawaiians)
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I guess the author will go with Bora Boran-Hawaiian ???


2 posted on 09/01/2023 3:47:01 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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The author makes an excellent, obvious point. All inhabited land in the world has been subject to conquest.

The owners of land are those who have been able to hold against attempted conquest by the next group who tries to take it.

If you are not able to defend your land, you will not hold it for very long.

3 posted on 09/01/2023 3:52:40 AM PDT by marktwain
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“The widely reported denial of water by M. Kaleo Manuel, the deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, to fight the fires led to national outrage, but local pro-Polynesian activists and the media rallied to his defense since what he was really defending was ‘native cultivation’ against the sugar cane plantations.”

No, what he was really doing was denying the ability to fight deadly fires.

Tribalism is incompatible with representative government.


4 posted on 09/01/2023 3:56:51 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Polynesians had originally colonized it by enslaving the original inhabitants, tattooing their heads and then using them as human sacrifices while making Captain Cook look like a saint

Who could the previous inhabitants have been, except for other, earlier Polynesians?

5 posted on 09/01/2023 4:17:06 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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HI likes tourists though. They come, drop a bundle of cash and go. It so happens that I was vacationing on Hi and struck up a conversation with a white nurse who lived on the island. She said that she felt trapped and very alone. Very few suitable mates. Nice place to visit but not to live.


6 posted on 09/01/2023 4:17:55 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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This is also why the government has set up those “shelter in place” processes for dangerous incidents.

Government employees are sent periodic emails indicating in the event of a problem like a terror attack or extreme weather event, they may be asked to shelter in place instead of escaping outdoors, all with the intent of reducing mayhem.

The thing is, they don’t send those emails to white people.


7 posted on 09/01/2023 4:19:43 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: coloradan

I guess the next stat that’s needed is how many hoales died compared to the Kānaka Maoli death toll. You can bet your bottom dollar somebody’s working those numbers up. They dissemination will be underground of course.

I’ve worked all over the place in Southeast Asia and Western Pacific, visited many islands on the ships I was working on and one thing I know there are the “come here’s” and there are the “from here’s” - heck that’s true in ‘hoods, small towns, and regions across America. I reakon it’s part of our human nature.


8 posted on 09/01/2023 4:26:40 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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If cutting off water was an isolated incident, that can be attributed to ideological myopia. But the number of failures, such as not cutting off electricity, not turning on the alarms, not cutting the brush around the power lines, declaring a day off for school children, and using the police to entrap the residents trying to escape, indicates either a deliberate plan or stupidity at an Idiocracy level.
9 posted on 09/01/2023 4:26:48 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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Hawaii Electric is asserting they killed the power. So that may be a lie from the Climate Cultists and government officials looking to deflect blame for their incompetence that led to many fatalities.


10 posted on 09/01/2023 4:36:03 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“I guess the author will go with Bora Boran-Hawaiian ???”

Kānaka Maoli, I have also read about a Tongan origin. Dana called them Kānaka’s in “Two Years Before The Mast.” There are very few “blue-blooded” Kānaka Maoli’s left. The term Native Hawaiian is Haole-speak.

I should go visit a related Genome Project site and catch up on some of the updates of migratory dispersion patterns of the races.


11 posted on 09/01/2023 4:41:46 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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. It will be very hard to separate disdain from malice


12 posted on 09/01/2023 4:57:11 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: DeplorablePaul

Many get island fever and leave after 2-3 years…


13 posted on 09/01/2023 4:58:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

stationed Oahu 79-81

anti haole and anti popolo racism was very strong then, too.

Friend of mine was shot in the head for his watch once by kanakas, he lived, they were bad shots

lots of fights every 15th and 30th downtown Honolulu


14 posted on 09/01/2023 5:05:05 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: Clutch Martin

Actually the choices of ethnicities our government gives us is

Black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander etc


15 posted on 09/01/2023 5:06:52 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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One difference between the Lahaina disaster and the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks 22 years ago, or, further back, the 1960s assassination of the Kennedys and King, is that there now exists a vigorous alternative media that spreads the gross failure or conspiracy story as fast if not faster than the mainstream media spread the climate change narrative. In the past, it took months, if not years, for the assassinations and 9-11 stories to be debunked through books and, with 9-11, the early Internet.

When the powers that be pull the same stunts of secrecy, as using high walls to hide what they are doing, as was done in the pasr, they only increase the suspicion.

16 posted on 09/01/2023 5:07:24 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: heartwood

Yup it was Polynesians originally in Hawaii according to the articles I’m reading. They were the great open ocean voyagers who settled the Pacific. I’m guessing the author is confusing native/indigenous with different ethnic group.


17 posted on 09/01/2023 5:14:04 AM PDT by Varda
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To: 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; Absolutely Nobama; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

What looks like incompetence by government officials really reflects an ongoing racial conflict. Leftist activists, most of them white or black, have organized some activist Polynesian residents (often wrongly referred to as native Hawaiians) along the American Indian or Australian aboriginal model into their own system with extensive leverage over the bureaucracy.

Ongoing conflicts over water rights between plantations and so-called ‘native cultivation” led to a denial of water to fight the fires. The widely reported denial of water by M. Kaleo Manuel, the deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, to fight the fires led to national outrage, but local pro-Polynesian activists and the media rallied to his defense since what he was really defending was ‘native cultivation’ against the sugar cane plantations.

Even with the wildfires going on, the Hawaii Supreme Court rejected a petition from the state government to free up water to fight the fires. The state was not allowed to divert water from that being wasted for “customary Hawaiian practices and ecological balance”.

It is worth going over to the link to read the entire article and comments.

Looks like Greenfield is touching the third rail of politics - racism by "natives", whomever they may be. But only leftist "natives" are allowed any TV time.

Ping out to the Daniel Greenfield Ping! List.

As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the esteemed Daniel Greenfield ping list.

Daniel Greenfield's website: The Sultan Knish blog

18 posted on 09/01/2023 5:30:34 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Get out. Get ahead of the curve and give them the power before it’s too late. Starts with eliminating statehood and restoring the monarchy. Make it a protectorate for starters. Eliminate 2 senators.

These people are like Palestinians using terror. Give them their own nation and they’ll do nothing with it.


19 posted on 09/01/2023 5:34:16 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: Tennessee Nana

“Actually the choices of ethnicities our government gives us is Black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander etc”

Yeah it’s pretty weird, I always thought they check Male and Female but that’s gotten weird too. If they want to get rid of racism knock off the subdivisions on government forms and programs. That would be a start anyway.


20 posted on 09/01/2023 5:41:18 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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