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.
Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water
US-occupied Hawaii is living sardine-packed 20-to-an-apartment next to methlabs, paying $3k / month, getting raped by Americans in tacky hotels, especially US soldiers. And then be arrested for speaking your own language, dying in prison, or of diabetes at age 39.
Help us Native Hawaiians keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. ko-fi.com/silverspook
As millions of Americans go hungry & #EastPalestine wrecks occur daily due to capitalist greed, remember Hawaii had world-class public owned rail, electric, and universal healthcare. If the US had learned from our socialist system, disasters like these would've been averted
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 mass transit, railroads. The city of Honolulu was lit by nationalized, renewable hydropower before the White House had electricity
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. We had the world's highest literacy rate (98%).
Kalakaua, one of our leaders, had invented a sub-aquatic vehicle when Jules Verne was still dreaming up 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Hawai'i was a living Wakanda - an indigenous future: more technologically, economically, and socio-politically advanced than any Western Nation.
The sovereign country of Hawaii had Black citizens before the US Civil War. In fact, US slaves that stepped onto Hawaiian soil were considered free. Chinese were full citizens in Hawaii as US chained them up to build railroads & West Coast, w/terrible racism, lynching of Asians.
An example of actual equality, democracy, existing socialism without racial hatred, greater technological advancement in a POC nation - it put the US, the West, and Europe to shame, blew their 'White Man's Burden' out of the water -- which was why they illegally crushed Hawaii.
Hawaii's coup - backed by US gunboat diplomacy - to smash a Non-White country's building of an actual anti-racist, socialist, thriving country was the blueprint that would later be used on countless Asian, Pacific Islander, Latin American, African, countries across the world.
To push the country back into poverty, dis-educate its people, 'obliterate the history', de-develop its infrastructure, and plunder resources and cheap labor. (Homeless tent city is where I worked as social worker/STEM teacher for impoverished Hawaiians / AAPI at-risk youth)
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.
War with China is a final, dangerous death-kick of the US empire. Here is a 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.
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:
More on the US ban of our Hawaiian language and culture, and how the US continues to punish Native Hawaiian children for speaking Hawaiian to this day with no consequences for the perpetrators.
We Hawaiians don't need 'representation' in the US empire, we need an end of destruction of our land, resources, culture, and genocidal, capitalist US occupation.
The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, let us die in Maui fires, devastated our universal healthcare, & 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
Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water
US-occupied Hawaii is living sardine-packed 20-to-an-apartment next to methlabs, paying $3k / month, getting raped by Americans in tacky hotels, especially US soldiers. And then be arrested for speaking your own language, dying in prison, or of diabetes at age 39.
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, and erasing the history.
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.
The US imperial rulers, the same ones bulldozing bodies at Al Shifa, is preparing for nuclear WWIII against China, using Hawaii as training ground. You are being prepped with daily g3noc!de images to accept coming mass annihilation.
"POHAKULOA TRAINING RANGE, Hawaii — The Marine gunner knelt... positioned the rocket launcher on his shoulder, focused the sights on his target, a rusted armored vehicle 400 yards away." The sickening glee in describing this WWIII nightmare, practiced in my homeland is revolting.
The US plutocracy knows it can't compete w/ China on EVs, next-gen tech, win-win planetwide cooperation etc. It could move military spending and billionaire financialization toward concrete housing, healthcare, infrastructure and join multipolarity, but the elite refuse.
School is where kids
-Get covid brain and organ damage
-Get bullied (especially if #trans #indigenous non-white)
-Be conditioned into an order-taking capitalist cog in your future tyrannical workplace
-be babysat while parents are capitalist cogs 8+ hrs / day spreading plague
In school you also
-Get substandard education (54% of US is below junior high reading level BEFORE covid neuron destruction)
-Forced indoctrination into American exceptionalism / capitalism / fictional history / brain poison.
...Wait nevermind. Schools out forever!
Everyone's immune systems are compromised, there are record covid cases (1 million+ /day). Every reinfection eats more brains and bodies.
The world will never go back to "normal". In work, play, education, travel. But "normal" was killing us and the planet. Accept it and change.
The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, let us die in Maui fires, devastated our universal healthcare, & 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
Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water
Help us Native Hawaiians keep doing more education and resisting colonial oppression. ko-fi.com/silverspook
The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, let us die in Maui fires, devastated our universal healthcare, & 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
Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water
Help us Native Hawaiians keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. ko-fi.com/silverspook