Corbett Kalama appointed as Kamehameha Schools trustee
Advertiser
reports:
"The state Probate Court yesterday appointed First Hawaiian Bank executive
Corbett Kalama as a trustee of the $7.7 billion Kamehameha Schools."
Star-Bulletin
also has the story.
With his background as a banker touted
as one of his main qualifications, I just hope folks remember his bank's record of denying
loans to Native Hawaiians at a highly disproportionate rate (for example, First
Hawaiian Bank denied refinancing applications from native Hawaiians and other
Pacific Islanders at a rate 4.5 times greater than applications from Caucasians
and 3 times the denial rate for Asians, even when Hawaiians were in higher
income brackets), and push him to use KS resources to help start a Native
Hawaiian Bank. Probably over 10 years ago, Bumpy and I had lunch with
Corbett and he personally committed to us, face to face, that he would support a
Native Hawaiian Bank. Still waiting. Now he is really in a position to do
it.
Posted: Tue - February 6, 2007 at 09:39 AM