The Story of Occupied Hawai'i:
Forced overthrow, Violent cultural suppression - US Military Occupation.
Aloha was Crushed by fortune-hunting FORCE
Hawaiians now can't afford life under Occupation
The Story of Occupied Hawai'i:
Forced overthrow, Violent cultural suppression - US Military Occupation.
Aloha was Crushed by fortune-hunting FORCE
Hawaiians now can't afford life under Occupation
Aagamaarthamtu devaanaam
gamanaarthamtu rakshasaam
Kurve ghantaaravam tatra
devataahvaahna lakshanam
It's criminally misleading designating 20-years in Afghanistan as "America's Longest War."
𝘽𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙩!
The US waged continuous active genocidal war on native Americans from 1775 to 1924, stealing land & resources.
From 1492 to today, indigenous people remain under attack.
https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2021/09/01/opinion/from-the-left-lawrence-odonnell-of-msnbc-to-right-wall-street-journal-agree-today/100488.html
Each of us is afflicted by efforts to deceive: email and phone scams, Facebook 'news' & wider media tropes.
Legacies of US imperialism, Native American genocide, Hawai'i's forced military occupation, slavery reparations, etc., remain unresolved.
Deregulation & market choice invite fraud.
As the dispossessed & battered seek justice, stolen wealth is protected by distractions.
"Murder Hornet" !!
𝘝𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 or オオスズメバチ are danger if disturbed & a threat to beehives.
But as with the scare 20 years back of KILLER BEES!!!, media yanks your chain.
Our Japanese farmhouse had a huge nest. Told not to disturb them, we didn't; six years, All OK.
𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁?
Hawai'i chills COVID corpses in three mobile mortuaries = morgue trailers. My Hawaiian auntie strongly advises tourists "Don't Visit Hawai'i!" with a grim edge of fear: "We don't want to end up in the morgue trailer ..."
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/08/27/green-warns-life-preserving-restrictions-are-looming-city-deploys-mortuary-trailer-morgue/
Chillin' in Texas. Rest in Peace! |
The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects ...
-- George Orwell, 1948
"Sorry!" can't excuse enslavement, profiteering, continued violence, American racism.
American guilt.
Better
education opportunity in the USA would be a helpful step. High-priced education maintains upper class domination and racism.
Non-resident housing speculators BLEED local workers... 🩸🩸🩸
(Hawai'i, Cape Cod, Lake Placid, etc.) 🩸🩸🩸🩸
"One outsider, pissing in ..."
Original, often strident essays
(more await added courage)
My poetry is written under the penname Genki 元気 meaning 'original spirit' or healthy/happy