Father Lehi in Hawaii (part 1)

Hawaii is the epitome of the missionary efforts in North America. It revolves around the notion of colonization and the appropriation of native lands, culture, traditions, and language. It represents a small portion of what has happened and what is happening currently in the "New World."

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a worldwide church that also preaches the concept of the Lamanite to native peoples of the Pacific similarly to the indigenous of the United States continent. However, their experiences and definitions vary in myriad of interesting and challenging ways.

Two native Hawaiians, Haunani-Kay Trask and William Wallace III, each have two different perspectives and give their take on the ideology and the influence of the "Lamanite" upon their islands and people. These diverse views give us a greater understanding and broader sense of the complexity of Lamanite Identity.

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[SkipHawaii]

@MSW121185

Greed? I’m not the one sponging off the government. I work for a company that competes on the global market and wins. It does this while it and I pay the taxes so that fools like her can sit on their ass and bitch and whine. Hawaii has no industry and imports everything including 90% of their food. They are a parasite on this country and the sooner the US cuts them loose the better.

And by inbred do you mean like the Hawaiian Aliʻi? What a fucking clueless twit.

[MSW121185]

Will all the white trash please stand up.

[MSW121185]

@SkipHawaii - another piece of right-wing American white trash. Typical. Greed, greed, greed is all you and your inbred lot care about.

[SkipHawaii]

Trask, what a professional victim, all these assholes do is bitch about the evil haole and then stick their hand out. They’ve never fought for their owner queens land and never will. Get this sorry ass island of whiners off of the fed tit and out of the US.

[UniteHawaii]

@revolution123ize. (#2) Yes. He did ordered Her Majesty and Her government to be restored. They made a treaty in 1897 called the "Cleavland-Liliuokalani Exective Agreements," which requires the U.S. President and their sucessors in office to administer Hawaiian Kingdom Law and to restore the government. Those agreements are still active to this present day! But, yeah, when President Mckinley came into power, he denied it existed!

[UniteHawaii]

@revolution123ize. #1. Yes, I do know about that. Her Majesty did not surrender Hawaii. She yielded Her authority and transfered it to the U.S. President to undo what their U.S. Ambassador had done. And, yeah, when President Cleveland came into power, he launched an invistigation and concluded that because the U.S. Ambassador conspired against a foreign nation, not to mention used military force to aid Hawaiian citizens who commited treason. (BTW, Hawaiian is a nationality), it was an Act of War

[revolution123ize]

In response to this, nonwhites have been mainly defensive. At this point I have exhausted my feedback on this page. Ironically, none of the posts reflected the topic in the video. For those who stumble upon this page, I suggest checking out the past posts. You may find them interesting. Anyway. Aloha. Ano ai.

[revolution123ize]

Also in her book, again I paraphrase since I can't find the quote, Trask I think said that nonwhites peoples have never committed violence. If so this is wrong. Examples: Native American intertribal warfare, Imperial Japan's violence against the Chinese/the Koreans, even pre1778 Hawaiians w/ at least periodic warfare. But for the about the last 700 yrs white racism/ violence has been on a worldwide "offensive" first w/ European colonialism & later w/ U.S. imperialism.

[revolution123ize]

In Trask' book, From a Native Daughter, I think she said that U.S. whites share in the blame in the continuing occupation of Hawai'i. I'm paraphrasing her since as yet I can't find the quote. If so, she's right & wrong. Whites w/ institutional power have no doubt contributed. Common whites w/o that power have done less so or not at all. Regardless racial supremacy have "endowed" whites w/ social status based on skin color, e.g.

[revolution123ize]

is characterized by verbal violence. I emphasize the word verbal. To compare, we have had actual violence repeatedly committed in the name of U.S. imperial interests w/ massive deaths of local/indigenous populations worldwide. Then we have this poem. Do I really have to say which is worse?