Since the US banned our Hawaiian language, it nearly went extinct. Less than 100 kids spoke it in the 80's. Kids are STILL punished for speaking Hawaiian today. The fact we've 30,000+ Hawaiians speakers now is testament to our struggle to preserve our culture from eradication.
Hawaii also leads the US in the school-to-prison pipeline - #1 in rounding up children, especially Native Hawaiians. Part of the continued US attempt to destroy us indigenous people and lifeways.
Help us Native Hawaiians keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. https://ko-fi.com/silverspook
Since US invaded our sovereign country, Hawaii also tops the US in police killings, disproportionately Pacific Islander, and Hawaii is by far #1 most economically unequal. (I worked with homeless/at-risk kids in that tent city in Honolulu).
Native Hawaiians / PI have the HIGHEST rate of incarceration in the US, and the lowest healthy life expectancy. Settler colonialism is ongoing as we're being cleared from the land for resorts, used to make maitai umbrellas, etc. in the prison-industrial complex.
Our Native Hawaiian children are also targeted by the US for child removal to prevent parents from passing Hawaiian language, history, and lifeways down to the next generation. CPS is a tool for cultural genocide.
I am guessing this is a GOP policy ?
@zleap @silverspookgames Try #NeoLiberalism or #ManifestDestiny, definitely something both parties that suckle at the teats of their #Oligarch masters do.
State politics are lead by Dems, while local positions are non-partisan
(#Source:
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/government-politics/2020-11-09/what-local-election-results-reveal-about-hawaiis-politics
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