Freeman doesn't know that the vote for statehood was a move away from being cheap labor for the sugar plantations.  Dad was born on one in Maui.  He cut cane before he walked to school.  There were open sewers on that plantation, running right by the huts.  He left and went to work as a stevedore in Honolulu, not many jobs for local boys from Maui & Molokai.  He worked for the Big Five hauling stuff on his back for the descendants of the missionaries.   In 1959 Dad & all his ohana voted for statehood, it was the way to get away from "the man".   Everyone on our street in Kaneohe voted for statehood.  People came by to talk about it.  Everyone wanted a different chance in life.  As for the Hawaiian's can't go to university?  I received a race based scholarship years ago just to attend UH.  Our history is more complex than Freeman knows. It's not simple.