03-09-2024, 08:44 PM
Instead of realizing there are different ways of living our lives, of seeing things, of feeling things, they expect everyone else is just like them.
In one instance it’s colonialism.
In another, it’s called uniting the islands.
It all depends on how you define the borders, and where you designate the borders. There are some Native Hawaiians who still consider Kamehameha a usurper, and their former chief the legitimate ruler over a part of Maui. They spoke out when an upcountry school was named after Kamehameha many years ago.
I walked through the Ka’u Desert in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park recently. There are color information placards that discuss the many bloody battles which occurred there.
History is rarely the way people wish to remember it, especially if they are promoting an ideal or better times in the good old days. History in reality is generally messy, with a lot of the unpleasantness swept under the carpet or lauhala mat. Everywhere on earth.
In one instance it’s colonialism.
In another, it’s called uniting the islands.
It all depends on how you define the borders, and where you designate the borders. There are some Native Hawaiians who still consider Kamehameha a usurper, and their former chief the legitimate ruler over a part of Maui. They spoke out when an upcountry school was named after Kamehameha many years ago.
I walked through the Ka’u Desert in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park recently. There are color information placards that discuss the many bloody battles which occurred there.
History is rarely the way people wish to remember it, especially if they are promoting an ideal or better times in the good old days. History in reality is generally messy, with a lot of the unpleasantness swept under the carpet or lauhala mat. Everywhere on earth.