Thank you, Peter.  Your article explains that OHA impacts the interests of all Hawaii residents.

OHA as a quasi-state agency exists "to formulate policy relating to affairs of native Hawaiians and Hawaiians..." (state constitution).  If people do not like the policies being formulated or how resources are being allocated, please vote accordingly.

Tourism ( and its low paying service jobs) is the economic engine of this state, that impacts all residents.  The indigenous culture has been used to make "aloha $" for this state.  In the meantime the state has a "blight" of homelessness (many of whom are indigenous), with solutions that address the "blight"...but lack root cause analysis (development free for all, no rent control, GET, low paying jobs, bloated home values).

OHA provides possibility for pathways that can address the issues of a large segment of our nH and H population.  

The evidence of pain and fear exists everywhere. Racism (its perceptions and forms) is pain & fear.