Did you know that in Hawai’i, the death toll is so high, it takes 3-4 months to schedule a cremation?
Did you know there are freezers behind hospitals and mortuaries, holding peoples dead ‘ohana?
Did you know that Covid-19 disproportionately effects Hawai’i’s nonwhite residents?
Did you know there are only around 298,000 Native Hawaiians left on Hawai’i? Only around 5,000 of those are 100% Kānaka Maoli.
Did you know there are only an estimated amount of 560,000 Native Hawaiians left in the world?
It is estimated that 1 in 17 Native Hawaiians died after our first exposure to European diseases. The population dropped around 70% in the decade after first contact.
We have struggled to survive, we have fought for cultural revival.
And here we are again.
My people are dwindling and dying, and since the mandates are expiring, now there is nothing stopping the greed of tourists from finishing my people off with disease.
Restore Hawai’i to Hawaiians and don’t fucking vacation in a pandemic
