No it's not an "op-ed".  It is a "community voice", defined above, "to encourage broad discussion". Prof Freeman says "give Hawaii back to the Native Hawaiians" but offers no pragmatic way to actually do so.  I want peace on earth today!  See how easy it is to espouse an opinion without a solution.  You can't straw man pie in the sky.  You can however disparage it and that is what I did.