I’ve written many times on racial preference policies for native Hawaiians that use a noxious “blood purity” test to benefit the privileged from everyone else. The madness continues.

Jeff Goldstein notes a new federal lawsuit by five Hawaiians challenging a similar policy. The plaintiffs claim that the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs “is illegally spending dollars reserved for the benefit of those with 50 percent Hawaiian blood or more.” Some of that money, they say, is being used to lobby for the apartheid-style bill sponsored by Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka, which is still pending in Congress.

Goldstein writes:

How anyone can argue that this is not the natural (structural) offshoot of a culture that continues to support legally sanctioned race-based “discrimination” (in the strictest sense) is beyond me. In fact, this kind of lawsuit should act as a direct rebuke against identity politics, the superficial color-fetishizing of the “diversity” movement, and—in particular—the kind of results-based judicial pragmatism that allows us to persist with the anti-individualist program of group-based politics that has turned our democracy into a calculus of warring voting blocs pandered to by necessarily opportunistic politicians.

Spot on.

And I would add my observation about the “diversity” crowd’s unabashed support for racial profiling in every kind of domestic policy–housing, education, government contracting, etc.–except where homeland security is concerned.

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