jessehimself:

Haunani Kay Trask – Island Issues, 1990

White caller: “—you blame it on the white man on how we took your land, I don’t understand when the Japanese are coming over and now buying it,and that’s okay? …I-I-I don’t see how this is about the haoles are coming over. You come over to our country and buy our land too, ya know it works both ways, I don’t see how you can have these rallies against the white man, this is America ya know.”

Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask: “Let me just say something to this caller, this is not America, this is Polynesia, our country was stolen. That’s one of your problems—you’re ignorant, woefully ignorant. I do! I am very active against Japanese ownership of our land, I have testified repeatedly at various commissions and legislature at opposition to any foreigner owning Hawaiian land. But you, caller, need to learn about Hawaiian history and about where you are. And that attitude is the same attitude that you have, is the same Joey Carter has. You think you are in America, you are not in America, you are in a colony that is in Polynesia that was forcibly taken, just as, I might add, all of Eastern Europe was forcibly taken by the Soviet Union – which Americans think is a “very very bad” place. “The bad bad Soviet Union.” Well the “bad bad” United States of America took Puerto Rico, it took Alaska, it stole Indian land, it took Hawaii, it took Guam, it took Micronesia, Palau, and you better learn that history because you are the recipient of an imperialist tradition.”

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“You, caller, need to learn about Hawaiian history and about where you are.”

Throwback Thursday: In 1990, Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask was featured on an episode of Island Issues discussing racism in Hawai’i. Here she responds to one of many “woefully ignorant” callers.

Haunani-Kay Trask (born October 3, 1949) is an American-born academic, activist, documentarist and writer. Of Native Hawaiian descent, Trask is a professor of Hawaiian Studies with the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and has represented Native Hawaiians in the United Nations and various other global forums. She is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunani…

There is the virtually unknown story of Hawaii and the hidden genocide being committed by the American government with the use of ‘blood quantum’ for the purpose of eliminating the Hawaiian national; and the reason America does this? Because according to their own laws, America never lawfully annexed Hawaii*, therefore according to law Hawaii never became a state, and if the Hawaiian land was never lawfully annexed, the only true claimant to the land, is the Hawaiian national.
“Nichols O’Keefe”

The people of the United States find themselves in such a position right now, forced to choose between a moral and ethical position that carries with it the potential for “inconvenience,” or supporting the status quo and having to admit to themselves that they are not the champions of justice they imagine themselves to be. By the end of this article, you will know for yourself which one you are.

Most folks have heard that Hawaii is a state, one of the United States of America. Most people, including those who live in Hawaii, accept that statement as a fact.

But the reality is that in a world in which nations are as bound by the rule of laws as are the citizens of nations (if not more so), the truth is quite different!

The truth is that each and every step along Hawaii’s path from sovereign and independent nation, to annexed territory, to state, was done in violation of laws and treaties then in effect, without regard to the wishes of the Hawaiian people. Many people, including President Grover Cleveland, opposed the annexation of Hawaii.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTI…

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