Sapain proactively went after this project while Ige twiddled his thumbs and worried about 45 protesters, mostly white and mostly from the mainland.  Protesters are a  dime a dozen.  Polls show that Hawaiians want this project and are just as capable of science and math as any other racial or ethnic group.  But there are some "activists" who want to see Hawaiians repressed and held back under the theory they can only follow orders of the ali'i.