white caller - “—you blame it on the white man on how we took your land, I don’t understand when the Japanese are coming over and now buying it,and that’s ok? ….I-I-I don’t see how this is about the Haoles are coming over. You come over to our country and buy our land too, ya know it works both ways, I don’t see how you can have these rallies against the white man, this is america ya know.”
Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask - “Let me just say something to this caller, this is not america, this is Polynesia, our country was stolen. that’s one of your problems - you’re ignorant, woefully ignorant. I do! I am very active against Japanese ownership of our land, I have testified repeatedly at various commissions and legislature at opposition to any foreigner owning Hawaiian land. But you, caller, need to learn about Hawaiian history and about where you are.
And that attitude is the same attitude that you have, is the same Joey Carter has. You think you are in america, you are not in america, You are in a colony that is in Polynesia that was forcibly taken, just as, I might add, all of Eastern Europe was forcibly taken by the Soviet Union - Which americans think is a “very very bad” place. “the bad bad Soviet Union”. Well the “bad bad” united states of america took Puerto Rico, it took Alaska, it stole Indian land, it took Hawaii, it took Guam, it took Micronesia, Palau, and you better learn that history because you are the recipient of an imperialist tradition.”
Haunani-Kay Trask literally saved my life everyone please read From A Native Daughter
