We would all like to think that we are preservers of our culture, people, nation or organization and that we know everything there is to know about it. We would all like to honor our own kupuna as the ones who knew the way. Let us also keep in mind that to put such importance to something so trivial is kind of insane. Let's come together as a people and prioritize.
Our history goes way deeper than 1893 and in being realistic with you, the damage was already done long before then. If you are one of those people who touts that you know your history, look deeper than the American legacy that you are currently a part of. We are all a part of that system and cognitive dissonance is no factual reason to be thinking the way many of us are.
Getting recognition from foreign entities does you no good if your own people don't recognize you.
Going back to the oppressor to complain and beg for freedom does you no good, when we as a people are incapable of governing ourselves. How is that evident? Look at the leaders we have produced. Sell out after ever loving sell out, while the good ones go silently to community affairs.
What do you see wrong with this?
Our kupuna are dying off, never having seen our kingdom returned.
They spend the last of their days watching the modern ways of society tear their families apart while all the makua stand around pointing fingers at one another, not grown enough to take responsibility for their roles in affairs. It is time for us to recognize what is truly kapu within ourselves and within the current state of affairs that we are in as a people, start treating it as though it were kapu like it should be, and carry on in a better way than we are right now.
Our land is sacred, our souls are sacred.
Why aren't our actions sacred?
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