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To: Sully- who wrote (17360)	12/6/2006 5:10:27 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

The 9th Circuit Rides Again Betsy's Page The full 9th Circuit just upheld a discriminatory policy for Hawaii's Kamehameha Schools to admit only those with some Native Hawaiian blood. It was a close decision with 8 Democratically-appointed judges voting to allow the discrimination based on race. I just don't see how this gets by civil rights laws. I'm not a constitutional expert, but how can such explicit racial discrimination be legal just because it has the purpose of helping native Hawaiians. Remember that Senator Akaka has been pushing for a bill that would eventually lead to separate Hawaiian government for just native Hawaiians, no matter how small a percentage of someone's heritage actually is native Hawaiian. That bill failed in the past Congress, but watch for him to bring it back in the new one. This is all part of a continuing trend in Hawaii to separate people by race. In 2000, the Supreme Court struck down a plan to only allow native Hawaiians to vote in elections for a government body that administers benefits for Hawaiians. They want a separate government to be allowed by the United States Congress that only people with some drop of Hawaiian blood could register to vote for and they would set up some special office to determine who was and wasn't Hawaiian. And here the 9th Circuit is voting to allow a discrimination based on race that wouldn't be allowed in a private school that wanted to admit only whites. I hope that the Supreme Court will continue its habit of overturning bad 9th Circuit Court decisions. But the overall separatist trend from some Hawaiians is quite disturbing and doesn't seem about to stop any time soon. betsyspage.blogspot.com sfgate.com betsyspage.blogspot.com

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