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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.

Hawaii also had a higher literacy rate than the US, and Europe before colonization, the banning of our culture and language, erasure of our history, and ghettoization. Hawai’ians were also often bi- or trilingual, and world-renowned diplomats.

https://cechambers.com/hawaii-highest-literacy-rate-in-the-world/

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)

But the US & Western imperialism’s days are numbered. Hawaiians are learning our olelo (language) & history - despite US attempts to stop it - & we are building the prosperous, advanced, yet culturally Hawaiian world in solidarity w/ the rest of the rising Global South & allies.

Also, do follow

@adamkeawe

@jamaicaosorio

@ihikapalaumaewa

@kue_kawena

for more on Hawaii #kanakatwitter

@Veselekov is another PI indigenous dev

Asian part of #AAPI :

@LunaOi_VN - Vietnamese comrades

@SpiritofHo

@qiaocollective - left Chinese media

@catcontentonly

(Note these are Twitter usernames/hashtags since the original thread is on Twitter)

Help me do more indigenous education and make anti-capitalist anti-imperialist games at the Silver Spook hui (cooperative/commune) where we’re trying to house and feed as is our kuleana (responsibility):

patreon.com/neofeud

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