They've just got to step up. They're so Hawaiian. Lilikala Kame ' leihiwa, director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai ' i, agreed. Earning respect Clayton Hee, chairman of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, said both Thompson and Akaka are likable men who have worked hard for their positions of respect. Future leaders will have to do the same, he said.
Leadership tends to be earned.
The leadership from within the Hawaiian community will be the product of lengthy public service. I don't see any magical emergence of any individual. Poll, physicians Emmett Aluli and Kekuni Blaisdell, both active in Hawaiian sovereignty issues, received favorable ratings of just more than half of those polled. But neither was extremely well known, with don't-know ratings of approximately 40 percent for both. Aluli has helped lead the battle for the return of Kaho ' olawe to the Hawaiian people and serves on the Kaho ' olawe Island Conveyance Commission.