cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13985166

Day gecko

Any local folks know what's needed out there and where to go? I want to help but also times like this is when sometimes scams pop up.

Ok, there is this candy (pictured) which is Family Foods International brand Coconut Candy (the green bag). It is very much not fancy but also very much hard to find on the mainland.

Would someone be willing to go to the store, buy about 10 bags and mail them to me in Washington state?

I'll pay up front with Zelle or ETH or BCH or Monero or even (Paypal). Happy to pay cost of product plus shipping plus $50 for your troubles.

Bought some poke today from Foodland Farms Ala Moana and it was $35/lb! Got the fresh one though and haven't gotten fresh poke in awhile so maybe just haven't kept up with the prices. Usually get the ones in the plastic boxes towards closing which are maybe $12/lb.

Was ono but so expensive.

A Hawaiian scholar explains the multifaceted movement, which is pushing for the United States to return land taken during an 1893 coup d’état that overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy.

Howzit? Trying to see if anyone from r/Hawaii have made it over here?

Text Mirror:

What does decolonization of Hawaii, and the US look like? From one Native Hawaiian's perspective (me)

The US military is destroying our islands along with the 12 million tourists under foreign billionaire-owned tourism. Too many Americans are buying up our lands forcing us out by jacking home prices to $1.5 million etc.

But the solution in places like Hawaii, North America is not as simple as everyone who is white or non-indigenous simply leaving.

If the people in Hawaii & North America could repair the inequities with the indigenous people there, respect treaties, allow indigenous and ethnic minorities to exist as equal yet different - the way Vietnam, China have 50+ ethnic minorities who co-exist, allow them to speak languages, don't mass-arrest imjpoverish, etc - then everyone would not need to leave.

If the colonizer-mindset people in Hawaii leave and go to N America, that pushes the problem to Native Americans. If they go to Europe, at least you don't have re-settler colonialism.

When the French colonizers were defeated and kicked out of Vietnam, they were < 5% of the population, had clearly delineated 'us and them' lines, and so decolonization was more straightforward. Most French chose to leave Vietnam, because they were there to extract resources and labor from their 'coolies' and when they couldn't anymore, they went back to Europe.

At the same time, all people of French/white heritage were not required to leave Vietnam after the dismantling of colonial yt supremacist rule.

As an example, my Vietnamese friend Luna Oi has a white American husband in Vietnam, and he is not required to 'go back to America' because he's white. He simply has to follow the rules of Vietnam, its socialist anti-imperialist country, and co-exist peacefully, and it is fine. Vietnam is 98% indigenous.

Bolivia is ~60% identifying as indigenous, with a unique history, but they have had great successes with their indigenous-led socialist plurinational - meaning many language, many peoples, coexisting within one state - in the Western sense.

They do not require the 40% white/non-indigenous identifying people to leave Bolivia and go back to Spain, Europe, US, etc. but over time, they will need to learn to co-exist in actual equality with the indigenous.

The US is 98% identifying non-indigenous, with ~20-30% non-white identifying.

The US is the worlds' largest European settler colony by far with 330 million people, and the worlds' capitalist superpower that dwarfs and puppeteers its parent Europe itself.

The process of undoing colonization, and healing the broken people and ways (including indigenous and non-white people who have had our ways and languages severely harmed by colonization) will not look identifical to either Bolivia or Vietnam, and will be unprecedented in human history - but we can learn from each of these struggles.

Education, listening to the marginalized, indigenous etc. and implementing that education in concrete ways is certainly an important part of the process. Which is why the US is banning CRT, anything that makes white people 'uncomfortable' from schools. Because it would indeed be the undoing of the US over time.

Long story short - it will be a long story and there is no easy shortcut out of it, lol.

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Transcribed by OCR Bot on Mastodon, corrected by me.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser - July 4, 2021

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@​STARADVENTISER.COM

[Image] Astatue of President William McKinley stands in front of the high school named after him.

What Fourth of July means to Hawaiians

By Leon Kaulahao Siu

hile Americans celebrate July 4 as Independence Day, the date signifies quite the opposite to many Hawaiians and to people of many countries around the world. This year, July 4 marks the 123rd anniversary of the launch of America’s brand of overseas imperial ism.

On July 4, 1894, the traitorous ca bal that had seized control of the Ha waiian Kingdom, which proclaimed itself “The Republic of Hawaii,” deter mined to annex Hawaii to the United States.

On July 4, 1898, having failed twice to annex Hawail by a proper treaty, the U.S. Congress resorted to passing the “Newlands Resolution” to simu late an annexation, With both July 4 actions, the perpe trators virtually gave themselves per mission to take over the Hawallan Islands, That's like someone saying to you, “I now own your home because I wrote a document yesterday that says I own your home.” Preposterous, right? But that Is essentially what happened to Hawaii,

On July 7, 1898, three days after Congress passed the Newlands Reso Jution, President William McKinley signed the bogus measure. And five days alter that, on July 12, a cere mony was held at Iolani Palace in Ho nolulu whereby the leaders of the “Republic of Hawall” continued their high treason and deception by hand ing over Hawall to the United States.

Thus, the real legacy of July Fourth in Hawail is not Independence, but the loss of independence. So why does the general public not know this?

Once the U.S. took over, the public education sys tem of the Hawaiian King dom (one of the best in the world) was turned Into an Indoctrination device to: 1) conceal the truth of what re ally happened to the Hawaiian Kingdom, and 2) seduce generations of Hawaii's chil dren into embracing Amer ica as their mother country.

As the years passed, all vestiges of Hawailan national identity, and much of Hawaiian culture, faded away. Gen erations of Hawail's children became loyal, patriotic Americans.

A key to the re-education program was changing the name of Honolulu High School to President William McKinley High School. It became the flagship of the propaganda campaign to inculcate the American way, The school’s bronze statue of McKinley holds in its right hand a fictitious, “Treaty of Annexation,”

While the academic achievements and espirit de corps of the high school {s undeniable and admirable, the name “McKinley” Is an anathema, perpetuating the monumental lie that Hawaii was duly annexed when It was actually ruthlessly hi-jacked.

That's like being told you were adopted, but then finding out you had been kidnapped! But now the kidnapper and many victims suffering from Stockholm syndrome, deny anything Is wrong and that being abducted was for thelr own good and Hawaiians should be grateful, forgive, forget and move on.

President McKinley not only oversaw the viola tion of the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom, he unleashed a virulent brand of Ameri can Imperialism that caused havoc, suffering, death and destruction all over the world for the past 123 years,

As longas the school bears the name of President McKinley, It will bear the stigma of the fake annex ation and the abusive policies of American Imperialism he instigated.

Removing the stigma of the McKin ley name would serve to: preserve the merits, dignity and legacy of the students, faculty and staff of the school itself; be truthful and historl cally accurate; maintain the integrity of the state's education system (by not perpetuating falsehoods); and serve as an Initial step toward truth, reconciliation and recovery for the generations of Hawaiians who sul fered from the loss of thelr country.

ISLAND VOICES

Leon Kaulahao Siu is a Hawaiian national, musician, diplomat and advocate for the reinstatement of the Hawaiian Kingdom