The US banned Hawaiian language, poisons our water, devastated our universal healthcare, overthrew our country, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon, but the destroyer of independence.
As America 'considers' canceling student debt, remember 1800's Hawaii had the world's highest literacy rate, invented submarines when Western sci-fi dreamt them, had first-class rail & hydro powered cities & we had FREE education before the US' treachery and privatization.
Hawaii was the first country in the world with high-quality mass-accessible public education, with over 70 newspapers in a country of less than 1 million. It's no wonder we electrified, provided mass transit, and invented torpedo-proof vessels, leaving the West in the dust.
Betsey Stockton, born into US slavery, owned by the President of Princeton. Unlike the US, she enjoyed equality as a women of color in Hawaii, & helped build schools. Hawaii became the most literate country in the world (98%) when Europeans & the US only educated the oligarchy.
54% of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level TODAY, teachers quit in droves, w/ trillions in student debt which graduates can't pay. A stark contrast to Hawaii's universal free quality education. The US should've learned from Hawaii instead of destroying us.
There are countries free of US capitalist shackles, like Cuba, which has universal healthcare, higher literacy rate, and Cubans live a full year or more longer than Americans under socialism. (700+ US overthrows of Cuba have failed so far, good job!) Hawaii should follow.
More on Hawaii that had the world's highest literacy rate, world's first Universal Healthcare, invented submarines before Jules Verne published 20,000 leagues, before the US invaded, banned our language and culture, ghettoized us, and buried the history.
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A thread on my game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions. My experiences refracted through the lens of satirical cyberpunk.
#BlackHistoryMonth More on the racial equality in 1800's Hawaii during US slavery, & in 2023 the US continues to pay mere lip-service while committing more racialized police killings and racial inequity grows:
The history of both Hawaii and Taiwan, and how we both need liberation from Western imperialism from a Native Hawaiian perspective. (Taiwan's Austronesian people are relatives of ours)
More on the US' ongoing poisoning of its own troops and Native Hawaiians dumping jet fuel in our water at Red Hill. US should take care of its suffering citizens rather than pushing unhinged war on China.
The US has 34 million hungry citizens & is cutting the meager lifeline of 1/5 its population, throwing everyone deeper into starvation as billionaires are raking it in. Shameful.
Hawaii pre-US occupation never let this happen.
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Since the US banned our Hawaiian language, it nearly went extinct. Less than 100 kids spoke it in the 80's. Kids are STILL punished for speaking Hawaiian today.
The fact we've 30,000+ Hawaiians speakers now is testament to our struggle to preserve our culture from eradication.
Hawaii also leads the US in the school-to-prison pipeline - #1 in rounding up children, especially Native Hawaiians. Part of the continued US attempt to destroy us indigenous people and lifeways.
Since US invaded our sovereign country, Hawaii also tops the US in police killings, disproportionately Pacific Islander, and Hawaii is by far #1 most economically unequal. (I worked with homeless/at-risk kids in that tent city in Honolulu).
Pele is coming for y'all military & colonizer resorts. The US' been bombing Hawaii for a century, made an island uninhabitable (Kahoolawe). You stage, train, & launch most US wars from Hawaii - Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan, dumping toxic waste & jet fuel. Lava is aiming for you
The US military has been bombing our sacred mountain Mauna Kea and burning thousands of acres in Hawaii, to practice for more imperialist, genocidal war in the Asia Pacific. The fiery eviction notice was a long time coming.
Klein's 'international left' is a liberal ivory tower. For the West who forget the US & friends is currently run by authoritarian zero-democracy regimes who suppress us Hawaiians, mass-arrest us, poison our water, and worse, here is a history lesson.
The US has zero-democracy, admitted even by Ivy League'ers like PRINCETON, whereas China has a government approved by the people. Do you do anything but bald-faced lie?
Cancel your Hawaiian vacation, sell your 'piece of paradise', before the lava swallows it up!
Treat Your Earth / Mama Right - A song for our Hawaiian goddess Pele who burned countless disrespectful men to ash with roaring streams of lava. silverspook.bandcamp.com/track/treat-yo…
Pele is coming for y'all military & colonizer resorts. The US' been bombing Hawaii for a century, made an island uninhabitable (Kahoolawe). You stage, train, & launch most US wars from Hawaii - Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan, dumping toxic waste & jet fuel. Lava is aiming for you
The US banned Hawaiian language, poisons our water, destroyed our universal healthcare, stole our land, erased our history, and abuses Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Since the US banned our Hawaiian language & culture, it nearly went extinct. Less than 100 kids spoke it in the 80's. Kids are STILL punished for speaking Hawaiian today. The US also stole our land, imprisoned our leaders, and is poisoning our water.
Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Many Americans think that Hawai'ians lived in huts prior to colonization. The US actually de-industrialized Hawai'i. Before 1898, Hawai'i already had electricity, mass transit, railroads. Iolani palace had electric lights before the White House.
Hawaiian pizza isn't 'Hawaiian' but a colonizer's invention to make tons of money in collaboration with Dole, who helped overthrow our sovereign country, resulting in genocide of Hawaiians, banning our culture, language, etc. (Neither is 'Hawaiian spaghetti')
It was created in Canada by a Sam Panopoulos, who used pineapples Hawaiian Canned Pineapple Co.. HCPC a brand of the now Dole Food Corporation, a company founded by James Dole, cousin of Sanford Dole - a wealthy oligarch who collaborated with the US military to steal our country.
Pineapples, not at all native to Hawaii, were instilled in the world as 'Hawaiian' by Dole's global marketing. He made millions selling his near-slave-labor grown pineapples while he & his cousin helped suppress Hawaiian language & culture, stripping us of our wealth and dignity.