Those who think threatening Kamehameha Schoolsʻ right to educate Hawaiians will divide us, keep dreaming.

[mahina]

https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2025-09-05/anti-affirmative-action-group-targets-kamehameha-schools-admissions-policy
A Virginia-based group, with no ties to Hawaiʻi, has launched a website criticizing Kamehameha Schools' admission policy for students with Native Hawaiian ancestry.The anti-affirmative action nonprofit Students for Fair Admissions was founded in 2014 by conservative activist Edward Blum, who is known for opposing classifications and preferences based on race and ethnicity.
The website is looking for plaintiffs to challenge the school's policy.

“We believe that focus on ancestry, rather than merit or need, is neither fair nor legal, and we are committed to ending Kamehameha's unlawful admissions policies in court,” the website states.
The group has already won major cases against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina over their affirmative admissions programs. That drew concerns from Native Hawaiian organizations and community members who say Kamehameha Schools was created to honor the legacy of founder Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The private K-12 campuses have taught thousands of Native Hawaiians in the state about their identity, history, culture and language.


“We want to assure you that our kula and operational leaders are prepared and committed to vigorously defending the vision of Ke Ali‘i Pauahi,” according to the KS statement. “We are confident that our policy aligns with established law, and we will prevail.”

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We will not be divided. Imua Kamehameha!

[JI7]

1. Yet another thread is about a white supremacist senator

going on about how the land belongs to white people becsuse their descendants conquered it.

[elleng]

3. Seems like native Hawaiians conquered it BACK!!!

[elleng]

2. "We want to assure you that our kula and operational leaders are prepared and committed

to vigorously defending the vision of Ke Ali‘i Pauahi,” according to the KS statement. “We are confident that our policy aligns with established law, and we will prevail.”

We will not be divided. Imua Kamehameha!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. Kick!!

[DFW]

6. Having lived in a land where a fascist dictatorship forbade children to be educated in their own language

I can only applaud the Hawai‘ians‘ efforts to preserve their own language and culture in the face of a foreign language and culture forced upon them by conquest.

Of course English should be taught, as fluency is essential (this does NOT extend to Republicanese). But the Hawai‘ian language was spoken in those islands hundreds of years before disease-ridden Europeans showed up with their numbers and culture or religion. The Hawai‘ians have every right to ask that their own language be given at least equal status with the language of invaders from halfway around the world.