Unite For The Benifit Of Our People

As a child growing up on Maui I learned little about Hawaiian culture, history. School for me as a child seemed very standardized and rigid. Leaving little room for young students to use their imaginations and open up their minds. Western schools(Haole schools) are set up this way to assimilate young Hawaiian students into the Western culture. I learned Hawaiian values at home living in a Hawaiian family. Then I would go to school to have my brain overloaded with ideals that were deemed important by the Western culture. This was very confusing for me because Hawaiian and Western values are so much different. For example: In Hawaiian culture the people belong to the land and they are there to make the land shine and prosper. With out the land there would be no Hawaiians so they respected and nurtured the land. In Western culture the land and its resources were given by “God” to benefit Western people. You can see how much the Hawaiian way of thinking differs from the Western way of thinking. Western culture is very self-centered, materialistic, and greedy. Hawaiian culture is very generous culture that sees its lands people as a whole instead of singular entities and shows utmost respect for their responsibilities to the land.
I have learned much in college and have come to realize the wool was pulled over my eyes for most my life. I was only taught lies in my Western minded school. They only want you to hear their glorified and self justified story of history that is just too good to be true. History is a length of time interpreted by any one person or people. He has his story, she has her story, and our people have a story too. Western history is founded on lies, theft, and cruelty. Its funny they don’t teach that in your history schoolbooks. Yes I said theft and cruelty. Every square inch of the United Stated lands were stolen through means of lies cruelty and theft. When the first Westerners first landed from York in North America the first thing they did is loot the native Indian burial grounds. Then they proceeded to kill off nearby Indian tribes stealing their lands, raping their woman and enslaving the native survivors. I don’t think the natives were very thankful of these monstrosities and yet Westerners choose to celebrate their self justified wrong doings with the Thanksgiving holiday. Westerners came to Hawaii with the same plan in mind. Westerners came to Hawaii with the racist assimilation of the vulnerable and trusting Hawaiian culture in mind. Hawaiians were wrongfully discriminated against because of their way of life and religious beliefs. This is in fact a form of racism. Western education, religion, brute force and cultural oppression were used like a lever for Westerners to gain power in Hawaii, with the goal of total domination of the Western peoples. If Westerners could convert Hawaiians to their culture then they would gain power over Hawaiians giving Westerners certain privileges. Assimilation of any peoples or culture is racism through prejudice towards that certain groups culture. This is how Westerners gained power over the Hawaiian peoples stole from their greatest asset. Stolen was Hawaii and the responsibility of the Hawaiians to make the land and its resources prosper. Hawaii was wrongfully and internationally illegal because of Westerners prejudice and greed. President Cleveland in fact deemed the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy unconstitutional. It is also a fact that there has been no internationally legal treaty for the annexation of Hawaii. This is possible because of America’s military brute force and their willingness to use force. The right thing to do is to give the responsibility of these lands back to the Hawaiian peoples to form a sovereign nation.