Obama Calls for Creating Separate, Race-Based Legal Systems in Hawaii

Though the election of the first biracial president could have served as a unifying force in America, the result has, seemingly, been the exact opposite. Playing one race against another, President Obama has often stepped into the middle of controversies to weigh in on racial tensions, helping widen the divide amongst races in America and has presided over a period of deepening racial divides in America.

 

Now, it seems, President Obama is hoping to codify into law legal segregation in Hawaii.

 

On Friday, a day often used by the White House to release information quietly, the Obama Administration released a proposal to change the federal rules.

 

The policy proposal, an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, states:

 

“The Secretary of the Interior is considering whether to propose an administrative rule that would facilitate the reestablishment of a government-to-government relationship with the Native Hawaiian community.”

 

The document claims that the goal is “to more effectively implement the special political and trust relationship that Congress has established between that [Hawaiian] community and the United States.”

 

What this does is essentially create a two-tier legal system based on race in Hawaii. 

 

Hawaii remains a divided state with a continuation of acrimony between native Hawaiians and non-native Hawaiians. This policy would, essentially, create a codified, legal policy of segregation- a policy that would, no doubt, be defended as being a policy dedicated to “separate but equal” treatment between the races.

 

Critics were aghast at the proposal that seeks to implement racial separatism within the legal system.

 

Gail Heriot, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a law professor at the University of San Diego questioned,

 

“What’s to prevent creating similar groups out of say, Cajuns, or Orthodox Jews or Amish?”

 

“If you can do that with groups that are already part of the mainstream, you can balkanize the country,” heriot continued.

 

Carissa Mulder, a spokeswoman for members of the federal Commission on Civil Rights claims that the move by the Obama Administration is yet another example of the president overstepping legal boundaries in order to advance his policy agenda.

 

“There is no constitutional basis for conferring such status, and Congress has repeatedly refused to confer this status,” Mulder stated. “This seems to be yet another case of the Obama administration ignoring the law to achieve its policy objectives.” 

“If the reports are accurate, the Obama Administration is taking Plessy vs. Ferguson, which codified segregation, back from the brink. It would be wrong for any president in the 21st century to initiate such policy, but for the first president of color to do it is even more a moral outrage,” stated Niger Innis, a Congressional candidate in Nevada and the former national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). 

The proposed policy is likely meant as a remedy to address financial allocations for native Hawaiians via the Office of Hawaiian Affairs who distribute money generated from land entrusted to native Hawaiians.

 

In recent years, Hawaiian groups have pushed for legislation that would create a tribal government for Hawaiians, an effort that has failed.

 

Though the issue is nuanced, the fact remains that our president, a man who was elected with a unifying message, has turned to racial separatism as a remedy to issues that exist between native and non-native populations. 

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