My takeaway from the lesbian bar with mask requirement discourse is now I want to start a lesbian bar / arcade / library with a mask requirement. Like dang, wish I'd heard of it sooner! Opening day, everyone has to come as Kitana, Mileena, Sub Zero or Scorpion for Mortal Kombat night. #LastDitch
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%).
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.
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.
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
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.
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Thomas McCants Steward was born in US slavery. Inspired by his true equality, and opportunity to prosper in Hawaii as a Black person, Stewart fought against the US coup that shackled people of color into 'beasts of burden' under yt capitalist oligarchs like Dole.
Many women of color contributed greatly to Hawaii's success. Emma Na'ea Rooke founded the world's first Universal Healthcare system in Hawaii, raising money on foot. She also helped build academies and a nursing school to staff the hospital.
Since the US illegal invasion of Hawaii, we now have terrible racial & economic inequality. Black and Hawaiians are the most over-incarcerated and murdered by police. Black families in the US are 10x poorer than yt counterparts & 2.5x more likely to be chained up for prison labor
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! Before the US banned Hawaiian language & culture, Hawaii had true equality for Black people, who prospered & helped build schools, hospitals & started Hawaii's first bowling alley.
The Hawaiian system of worker cooperatives also known as hui challenged the white capitalist system and allowed for common moderate prosperity of all people. Many Chinese specifically married into Hawaiian families hence names like Akana, Akau. Black families such as that of Anthony D. Allen 'Alani’, also succeeded and helped build hospitals, schools, and Hawaii's first bowling alley.
Betsey Stockton, born into US slavery, was in possession of the President of Princeton. She was another of many women of color who helped build schools in Hawaii. Hawaii became the most literate country in the world (98%) when Europeans and the US only educated the elites.
I made a game 15 years ago about this dystopian future where humans are equated to inefficient meat computers as a pretext for unhinged plutocrats to eradicate humanity with AI-automated robot militaries.
Today marks 133 years since the US' illegal overthrow of our sovereign country of Hawaii, not unlike #venezuelainvasion. The US banned Hawaiian language and forcibly made us a fruit & tourism colony & military outpost for imperialism. But we Native Hawaiians continue to resist. #Onipaa
Creator of Neofeud, a dystopic cyberpunk adventure game. https://bit.ly/2OrX9ib Also a Native Hawaiian, social worker, parent, and STEM robotics teacher. They/he/she (Mahu - Hawaiian 3rd gender)