Brave New Voices: "1893" Jamaica (HBO)

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[snd263]

amazing poem filled with truth and passion, and an excellent poem written with absolute truth.

to those defending christianity: whether or not you choose to believe it christian missionaries shoved religion down MANY cultures throats and broke down the peoples beliefs and tongues. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Christian missionaries did it to north american natives as well. so before you defend christians, think about all the cultures that were BRUTALLY killed by them. So much for love huh?

[Hbabii17]

I love that there is no clapping during her poem, I feel like the clapping ruins the essence and disturbs the poet's flow that they got going on

[iLiMA808xx]

i am in tears...

that was beautiful <3

KU E!

[ainahau808]

Maika'i no.....mahaaaalo....!

[keabhebs]

It also saddens me that our own people are not educated enough to know that you were not blaming Ke Akua but merely stating how the MISSIONARIES used Ke Akua to change our culture, language, LIFE! Cmon nā kanaka come together and understand what TRUELY happened to our kupuna.

[keabhebs]

Amazing video !! With so much mana'o and love and mana behind your words !! Its sad that people feel the need to give negativity yet we still open our island wth warm aloha. When will people realize that HAOLES took away our beloved aina.

[chyanchyan]

@DarkJudger Hawaii WAS forced to become a state... It was overthrown. The Hawaiian people had no choice... seriously, do some research before you say anything :p

[bethnicole10]

@snd263 When it comes to Christianity 90% of them are fake 10% are real. I met a lot of them that a lot are fake and real. I'm a Christian and i love everyone.I don't judge as long u don't lie to me or betray me.Judging us Christians as one like we are bad is not right to me. Every Christian heart is different some good and some bad.

[PULUSIBAGOOMBA]

@eJAMAICAtor Yes I do hear it in your voice. I hear your cry. I hear your pain. It's my pain as well. NOTHING infuriates me more than the injustices towards the Kanaka maoli even today. I just think you would reach the Hawaiian Christians more to your cause if you reflected towards the false teachings of Christianity than what you portrayed. I'm sure there is a silent majority who feel the same way and want to unite with you and the cause but are confused because of the delivery.

[eJAMAICAtor]

@PULUSIBAGOOMBA

the intention is not to blame god. its an ironic literary device to call attention to the ridiculousness of the way god was used as an excuse for the colonization of native people. if you listen and watch close your hear it in my voice- its sarcasm pointed directly towards missionaries who in fact told hawaiians that hawaiian hula, dance and other practices were anti god.

[PULUSIBAGOOMBA]

@eJAMAICAtor I understand what you are saying and am all for Hawaiians and their rights. I AM HAWAIIAN myself. But I feel that your words towards it being the fault of Ke Aku and Iesu are wrong my sistah. Christianity is not flawed, it's just delivered by flawed men who taught it wrong to the Kanaka. Queen Lili'uokalani even spoke from the bible and said "If my people would call on my name and seek my (God's) face then I will hear their suffering and heal their land" She believed.

[PULUSIBAGOOMBA]

@rebelcharlie Brah, you sound STUPID! stay off of this video post because you are not Hawaiian and if you were I'd be ashamed of you. Go back to Iran, Iraq, or wherever you came from that teaches you to sound so stupid.