Not true Zuri, the Republic of Hawaii's Constitution gave a two thirds majority vote to the Polynesians as you had to have been born in the Kingdom, or a naturalized citizen of the Kingdom in order to vote.  All the full Polynesians, and what they called "half-castes" partial Polynesians had all been born here and so could participate.  There total was about 45,000.  There were only 2,500 folks that could trace their ancestry back to the U.S. and only half had been born here.  There were also Germans and other Europeans.  But the far majority of disenfranchised people were the Japanese 25,000, Chinese 22,000, Portuguese 8,000, and a smattering of other folks that were brought here by the Kingdoms Board of Immigration, that could not participate because they had not been born here. This is why Robert Wilcox said what he did in his speech to fellow Polynesians down in Kakaako.  "You all know we control 2/3rds of the vote.  If you want to rule it is for you to decide".