Obama moves to allow native Hawaiians a ‘race-based government exempt from U.S. law’

On March 18th, 2008 then Senator, and candidate for President, Barack Obama gave a speech at the National Constitution Center on the topic of race. Senator Obama stated:

“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.

Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. [Emphasis added]

Apparently the Constitutional “ideal of equal citizenship under the law” does not apply to some races.

An article titled “Midnight Regulations in Paradise” in National Review Ilya Shapiro writes:

In another end run around Congress, Obama moves to allow native Hawaiians a race-based government exempt from U.S. law.

Like Rasputin, the push for a separate, race-based “native Hawaiian government” refuses to die. As I’ve now written about for almost a decade, it is the fondest dream of some politicians to institute a two-tiered system of law in Hawaii, putting some citizens under the jurisdiction of a wholly separate government based only on their racial makeup.

For many years, this push came in the form of the “Akaka Bill,” named after its primary sponsor Senator Daniel Akaka (D., Hawaii). The Akaka Bill took several forms over the years as it was repeatedly introduced — and rejected — in several Congresses since 2000. But its core goal remained consistent: to create a government within the Hawaiian islands whose membership would be defined not by geography but by blood, which means an exemption from state and federal law for those with enough native Hawaiian lineage to pass the government’s test.

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The Department of the Interior recently finalized a rule that would allow the federal government to establish formal government-to-government relations with a native Hawaiian government, if such a government should ever come to exist.

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This Department of Interior rule is simply another example of the politics of not equal under the law imposed by the Obama administration upon the people. Perhaps candidate Obama was lying at the National Constitution Center when he stated:

But I have asserted a firm conviction – a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.

And Democrats are still wondering why Donald J. Trump was elected as President of these United States. To go on the path of a “more perfect union” by Making America Great Again!

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