06-30-2016, 05:13 AM
ophikao
Your post deserves a reply, even though this issue is "the 3rd rail" to politics in Hawaii. With all due respect....
Ms Trask was young when this occurred. She painted a picture of the Hawaiians that was a "Madge Tennent", broad strokes, extremely evocative, two dimensional. She knows, as do you, that the history of the Hawaiians did not begin (or end) with the Queens abdication. The previous 100 years of unification under a common government was one of constant change, with multiple occasions where individual Hawaiians, both common and Royal , made decisions that shouldn't be lumped under "the Overthrow". Indeed, many of these decisions led directly and indirectly to that event, which was like all revolutions tragic and controversial. But a revolution it was, like the American and the French, and it stood. However this events "history" did not reside solely with the victors, as we note the survival of many of the trusts and institutions that were part of the Kingdom. The state is finally (slowly) coming to a reckoning, no doubt partly because of the stridency of voices like Ms Trasks
However it does not do any good for the uninformed to rely on a single sound bite, especially that one where you essentially had a naïf arguing with a politician. Talk about a soft floater that was easy to hit out of the park! That question/ opinion from the haole/newbie was the "hanging curve" of 3/2 pitches...
If I may extend that point to a current common concern , what's going on at Mauna Kea. One could argue that Ms Trasks argument is the one being carried forward now by the "the Protectors" who can be viewed essentially as sovereignists, cloaking themselves in environmental and religious cover to gain standing. Do you share that perspective as well ?
Your post deserves a reply, even though this issue is "the 3rd rail" to politics in Hawaii. With all due respect....
Ms Trask was young when this occurred. She painted a picture of the Hawaiians that was a "Madge Tennent", broad strokes, extremely evocative, two dimensional. She knows, as do you, that the history of the Hawaiians did not begin (or end) with the Queens abdication. The previous 100 years of unification under a common government was one of constant change, with multiple occasions where individual Hawaiians, both common and Royal , made decisions that shouldn't be lumped under "the Overthrow". Indeed, many of these decisions led directly and indirectly to that event, which was like all revolutions tragic and controversial. But a revolution it was, like the American and the French, and it stood. However this events "history" did not reside solely with the victors, as we note the survival of many of the trusts and institutions that were part of the Kingdom. The state is finally (slowly) coming to a reckoning, no doubt partly because of the stridency of voices like Ms Trasks
However it does not do any good for the uninformed to rely on a single sound bite, especially that one where you essentially had a naïf arguing with a politician. Talk about a soft floater that was easy to hit out of the park! That question/ opinion from the haole/newbie was the "hanging curve" of 3/2 pitches...
If I may extend that point to a current common concern , what's going on at Mauna Kea. One could argue that Ms Trasks argument is the one being carried forward now by the "the Protectors" who can be viewed essentially as sovereignists, cloaking themselves in environmental and religious cover to gain standing. Do you share that perspective as well ?