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He aha ia mea he hana pono?

For Saturday, August 11, 2012

Na Kekeha Solis

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 11, 2012

Synopsis: Some people who find the actions of the badminton teams who were disqualified at the Olympics to be immoral or unethical, actually have no problem with an illegal overthrow or a bayonet constitution.

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Aloha mai käkou e nä makamaka heluhelu mai ka pi'ina a ka lä i Makanoni a i kona welo 'ana i ka mole 'olu o Lehua, a pëlä pü me nä i'a i 'aki'aki i ka palu e lana ana ma ke kai. Ua nui nä känaka e ho'ohalahala aku ana i ka hana a ia mau hui pä'ani hilihili manu me ka 'ölelo 'ana, he hana pono 'ole ia, a he kü 'ole ho'i i ka lula maika'i. A 'o kekahi kanaka, ua ho'ohälikelike aku 'o ia i ia hana a läkou ala me ke kïpë 'ana aku i nä luna loiloi, a me ka hana 'äpuka ho'i ma ka ho'ohä'ule 'ana o kekahi kanaka i kona hui pono'ï. Akä, 'o ka 'oia'i'o, 'a'ole like iki. 'O kekahi, ua ho'ohä'ule läkou iä läkou iho ma ka ho'okükü ho'okahi, akä, 'a'ole i lilo aku ka mekala iä läkou ma muli o ia hana. He mau ho'okükü hou aku e lanakila ai. E hä'ule paha. A 'a'ole läkou i hä'awi i makana a i kälä paha i nä luna loiloi.

'O ka mea na'e i pü'iwa ai ka no'ono'o o ko 'oukou mea käkau, 'o kekahi mau känaka e 'ölelo a'e ana, he hana pono 'ole ia ho'ohä'ule 'ana o läkou iä läkou iho ma ia ho'okükü, he käko'o nö i kekahi mau hana pono 'ole a kekahi mau känaka pono 'ole ma ke aupuni Mö'ï o Hawai'i nei a ma këia au paha. Kohu mea lä, he 'oi aku ke 'ano nui o ka hana pono ma ka hana 'älapa ma mua o ka hana pono ma këlä me këia lä.

Eia mai ka mua, 'o kekahi mau känaka i kü'ë i ka hana a ia mau hui hilihili manu, he käko'o nö me ka mahalo i nä känaka näna i 'onou aku iä Kaläkaua i ke kumukänäwai 'elau pü. A he käko'o nö ho'i läkou i ka ho'okahuli aupuni. Pehea lä? He mau hana kü ia i ka pono? He keu aku läkou a ka ho'okamani. Ma nä hana 'älapa wale nö e hana pono ai?

Pehea ke noi 'ana aku i ke kökua a 'Amelika ma ka ho'okahuli aupuni, akä, i ke kauoha 'ana a'e o ka pelekikena o 'Amelika Hui pü 'ia, 'o Kaliwilana, e ho'iho'i 'ia ka Mö'ïwahine i ke kü 'ana i ka moku, 'a'ole i ho'olohe iki. He keu aku ia hana a ka höhë wale. Aia lä i hea ka hana pono?

A pehea ho'i ke kü'ë 'ana aku i ka palapala ho'oilina a ke Ali'iwahine Pauahi? He hana pono ia? He hana ho'i ia i kü i ka lula maika'i? 'A'ole, 'a'ole lä.

He nui aku paha nä hana i koe, akä, ua lawa paha ia no ka manawa. Ua möakäka paha ke 'ano ho'okamani o ia mau i'a 'aki'aki maunu.

Inä he makemake nä känaka a me nä aupuni i ka hana pono a me ka hana kü i ka lula maika'i ma nä Ho'okükü 'Älapa Helene, e kü läkou i ka pono ma nä hana 'ë a'e, 'a'ole wale nö ma nä hana 'älapa.

'O ia ihola nö i 'ike 'oukou. Ke ho'i akula ke keiki o Mänoa, ua ahiahi. Me 'oukou e nä makamaka heluhelu a me ka Hökü Avalataisa ke aloha.

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E ho'ouna 'ia mai na ä leka iä mäua, 'o ia ho'i 'o Laiana Wong a me Kekeha Solis ma ka pahu leka uila ma lalo nei:

>> kwong@hawaii.edu
>> rsolis@hawaii.edu

a i ‘ole ia, ma ke kelepona:

>> 956-2627 (Laiana)
>> 956-2627 (Kekeha)

This column is coordinated by Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawai'i at Mänoa.

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Ken_Conklin wrote:

Really Kekeha Solis? You think that political revolution against a corrupt and ineffective monarchy is comparable to the unethical behavior of a sports team which intentionally loses a match? Of course a revolution is illegal. That doesn't make it immoral. On the contrary, the Hawaiian monarchy had become immoral, and the righteous thing to do was to overthrow it. In 1887 an armed militia composed entirely of local people staged a revolution against Kalakaua, demanding that he sign a new Constitution severely restricting the monarch's powers. In 1893 that same armed militia overthrew the monarchy entirely when Liliuokalani tried to undo the revolution of 1887. Nobody got killed. One policeman got shot in the shoulder when he tried to block a cart of guns and ammunition headed for the government building; the policeman quickly recovered from his injury. What a genteel revolution, compared with the American revolution (thousands of deaths on both sides), the French revolution (hundreds of royals beheaded by guillotine in a public square) and the Russian revolution (Tsar and his wife and children massacred while held in captivity). Such a silly article by Kekeha Solis!

on August 11,2012 | 04:03AM

holokanaka wrote:

Ken, it is interesting how you use the phrase "entirely of local people" implying they were a mix of ethnicity in this phrase when in fact you know these local people were almost all if not all ha*le. The reason given for this revolution is "a corrupt and ineffective monarchy". There is another argument can be made here and that is the ha*le desire for control of these islands. You readily see this by reading the bayonet constitution. For instance the property and income requirements to vote denied a great majority of hawaiians from voting and for the first time foreigners could vote but ofcourse only american and europeans. Gee, what about the orientals (chinese, japanese etc). Furthermore you imply that the revolution was to clean up the government of and for the Sovereign Nation of the Kingdom when in fact the rvolutionest were not loyal to the Kingdom but loyal to america and was just another event in a series of events to effect annexation to the the united states unlike another event to clean up the government. (see Keawe, the Hawaiian History Columnest-The barracks revolt) Ken, your post is very misleading.

on August 11,2012 | 02:25PM

DiverDave wrote:

Holokanaka, Kingdoms and Capitalism don't mix well. Eventually the people producing the tax revenue clamour for more representation. You know: "There can be no Taxation, without Representation". The discussion of who got to vote before the constitutional changes after 1887 and after is all meaningless anyway because today everyone gets to vote! So, this discussion is moot. In the end Democracy came to the Islands. God Bless the U.S.A.!!!

on August 12,2012 | 09:40AM

holokanaka wrote:

Dave, you miss my point in my post or maybe purposely evaded it. I will again try to make my point and that is the ha*le which were loyal to amertica did not have the best interest of the sovereign Nation of the Kingdom at heart. They were greedy and power hungry people and were looking at any reason to initiate this "revolution". They were also racist, hypocites, lyers, thieves, and criminals. What happened to the -this is a nation of laws- usa.

on August 12,2012 | 01:43PM

DiverDave wrote:

Of couse not, why would anyone(and by the way mentioning someones race makes you a racist) support a unrightous dynasty? They were producing the economy that Kamehameha III, "The Great Capitalist" envisioned. And, I never evade a question that has to do with fact. Why evade? When the facts are on your side. Today everyone in Hawaii has the power in themselves to do whatever they want. Isn't it great? Today everyone votes! The metamorphosis of the Kingdom concept to the people rule concept is what happened here. Don't you realize it is better than your life controlled by a single person?

on August 12,2012 | 11:03PM

holokanaka wrote:

Dave, you seem to justify any wrongdoing by the ha*le with everyone gets to vote. You probably would justify the slaughtering of the indians, stealing their lands, and stuffing them on a reservation with "everyone gets to vote". How sad. Hopefully there are not too many people out there who think like you.

on August 13,2012 | 01:43PM

DiverDave wrote:

You are a racist. I will not have further discussions with you. We are done here! I am a card carrying Chickasaw Indian. Stop trying to equate the experience of the American Indians with the the history of Hawaii. Apples and Oranges. You are a fool!

on August 13,2012 | 10:49PM

peanutgallery wrote:

Your racist intent bleeds through all of your words.

on August 14,2012 | 02:51AM

holokanaka wrote:

This is a response to diverdave last post. You again avoid or ignore the issue which is the wrongdoing, which I have pointed out to you on some of your previous posts on this page and instead inject you own beliefs/philosophy/ ideology. Further more you calling me a racist is a copeout and hypocrtical because you did not address or even acknowledge the obvious racist provisions in the 1887 (bayonet) constitution which I clearly pointed out to you. Oh and by the way you calling me a racist and a fool means nothing since the only who defines me is me.

on August 14,2012 | 02:19PM

DiverDave wrote:

What wrong doing? Freedom?

on August 14,2012 | 11:09PM

DiverDave wrote:

You want to live in the past. That is the only thing you point out. Today is not yesterday. Things change. As time goes by things are refined. Today as part of this great nation, you can become anything you want to be. No one steps forward and stops you. Last time I was at the library there was no armed guard stopping anyone from going in. Stop with the racism. Stop with what happened 120 years ago. Stop with the poor little victim thing. Live and take advantage of the opportunities that abound around you. I did not live at the time of my ancesters demise. But, I also realize that no one alive today had anything to do with it. So, I can live in the dead past, the imagined future, or the here and now. I choose reality!

on August 14,2012 | 11:18PM

DiverDave wrote:

It is somehow fitting that Kekeha Solis would use the most corrupt, underhanded, out of control Monarch of all, King Kalakaua, as a comparison to the immoral and unethical badmitton team that was disqualified at the Olympics. Whether it was his wild drunken orgys at the boathouse with nude hula dancers, round the world trips, spending sprees that brought the government to the brink of bankruptcy, bribes from Chinese opium dealers, or kickback schemes with his European businessman friend Claus Spreckles, there is no doubt that the "Merry Monarch" cared little for his country and thought only for his own egocentric self. Perhaps the Polynesian-Hawaiians that rioted when he came to the thrown (causing the government to request that the British and American Navy come ashore to stop the riot and secure the peace) knew something Solis does not about the corruption and unrightousness that Kalakaua would, and did, bring to the country. As usual Solis thinks he knows more now than the people of Hawaii who lived at the time did.

on August 11,2012 | 06:34AM

DiverDave wrote:

My favorite Kalakaua story has to do with the money minting scheme that Kalakaua, and his good friend European business man Claus Spreckles hatched. After the Hawaiian Monetary Act of 1885 that made U.S. money the only excepted currency in the islands "for all debts public and private" Kalakaua decided that Hawaii should have its own coinage. Spreckles suggested that he would loan the money (1 million dollars) to the Crown at 6% interest and would use the money to make coinage. The scheme was to make coinage with less silver content (about 15%) less than a U.S. silver dollar. Then these coins where brought to Hawaii, exchanged for American dollars, and an immediate profit of $150,000 was made. People in Hawaii didn't readily know that these coins were fraudulent in metal value, but when it was discovered, everyone knew that onced again Kalakaua had certainly received the proper kickback from his very good friend Spreckles. From that time forward a premium was required when ever Kalakaua dollars were accepted for payment of anything. After the revolution most were melted down as they were looked at as just another example of how corrupt, and immoral, the monarchy had become.

on August 11,2012 | 09:56AM

DiverDave wrote:

Of course, the taking of a bribe to sell a Chinese business man and rice mill operator named Tong Kee, also known as "Aki",a license to sell Opium is yet another classic Kalakaua scandle. Tong Kee paid Kalakaua$71,000 in three installments. These were made at night, in gold, in a basket carried by Tong and accompanied by a baked pig. (sounds like something out of a mystrey novel)But, Tong did not get the license that was sold to another man, Chun Lung, for $80,000. When Tong asked Kalakaua for his money back, Kalakaua said it was all gone. Tong blurted out the whole story in public, had a heart attack and died! However, after his estate brought a law suit against the King, he admitted he had taken the money but could not repay it because he was a quarter of a million dollars in debt. Tong's estate was finally reimbursed by the government.

on August 11,2012 | 01:23PM

DiverDave wrote:

Side note: Claus Spreckels was by Kalakaua's bedside, in San Fransisco, when he died.

on August 12,2012 | 11:41PM

Notawannabe wrote:

Except of the Message to the Senate and House of Representatives from President Grover Cleveland..."A substantial wrong has thus been done which a due regard for our national character as well as the rights of the injured people requires we should endeavor to repair. The provisional government has not assumed a republican or other constitutional form, but has remained a mere executive council or oligarchy, set up WITHOUT THE ASSENT OF THE PEOPLE. It has not sought to find a permanent basis of popular support and has given no evidence of an intention to do so. Indeed, the representatives of that government assert that the people of Hawaii are unfit for popular government and frankly avow that they can be best ruled by arbitrary or despotic power."

on August 11,2012 | 07:57AM

DiverDave wrote:

"Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Territory of Hawaii, that the Congress of the United States is hereby respectfully requested to pass an Act enabling the people of this Territory to meet in convention and frame and adopt a State Constitution where under this Territory may be admitted as a State into the Union." This was the first action of the 1903 Hawaii Legislature adopted unanimously by the Senate and the Polynesian-Hawaiian dominated House and delivered to Congress by Hawaii's Polynesian-Hawaiian delegate to Congress, Prince Kuhio Kalaniana'ole. Apparently, not only did Polynesians in Hawaii have a taste of freedom and democracy, but liked what they saw only a matter of years after the revolution.

on August 11,2012 | 09:34AM