The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, stole our land, destroyed our universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon, but the destroyer of democracy. #election
Happy #ElectionDay ! The US rigs its own elections & over 95% of we Hawaiians voted no to joining the US. They then did a military coup, forcibly making us an enslaved fruit colony, banned our language & culture.
The US has never been democratic with native Chamorro people of Guam, who have only a moot bubble-filling exercise, as the US fills them with weapons, bases, pollution, and corrupt officials, under the authoritarian US-installed regime.
The United States, and the UN it controls, has never been democratic with Cuba. Over 130 billion dollars worth of embargoes have strangled the country for decades, giving suffering and death to their people. #election
The majority of Americans want to stop the ongoing horror in the Middle East in an open-air prison, but all major US parties support it. How can the US pretend to be a so-called 'democracy' or for 'freedom' and 'human rights'?
The US has also never been democratic with Puerto Ricans, who are a forcefully colonized, but claimed by Americans as 'citizens'. At the same time, suffering Puerto Ricans don't even get the pretense of 'democracy' -- a vote in US elections.
A thread on my game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions. My experiences refracted through the lens of satirical cyberpunk. https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/113092063894254681
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)
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.
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.
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.
54% of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level TODAY, teachers quit in droves, w/ trillions in student debt which graduates can't pay. A stark contrast to Hawaii's universal free quality education. We had the world's highest literacy rate (98%).
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 mass transit, railroads. The city of Honolulu was lit by nationalized, renewable hydropower before the White House had electricity
US-occupied Hawaii is living sardine-packed 20-to-an-apartment next to methlabs, paying $3k / month, getting raped by Americans in tacky hotels, especially US soldiers. And then be arrested for speaking your own language, dying in prison, or of diabetes at age 39.
Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water
The richest men on Earth buy up luxury estate in Hawaii while most Hawaiians don't "own" a single acre of our home. The US military poisons our water as Mark Zuckerberg OWNS a RESERVOIR, kicks us off 1,200 acres of Kaua'i.
Happy #ElectionDay ! The US rigs its own elections & over 95% of we Hawaiians voted no to joining the US. They then did a military coup, forcibly making us an enslaved fruit colony, banned our language & culture. The US also had their soldiers fake the Hawaii statehood vote.