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2026-08-07 07:58 UTC
**idk when my great-grandparents immigrated, whether it was when Hawai'i was still an independent kingdom or after the plantation oligarchs illegally overthrew it. My best guess would be either just before or right at the start of the Bayonet Constitution, which coincided with a lot of people leaving the Kyushu and Hiroshima regions due to crop failures, and my family is from those regions. But like I said. I don't actually know lol, because of *jazz hands* anti-Japanese racism during that time
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@renkotsuban@maestoso.org 2026-08-07 08:03
tbh I think it's a crime that mainland USians don't learn the history of their own imperialist overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, or the looting and rampaging across the Pacific (Guam, Philippines, Samoa and other Polynesian civilizations, etc). Who doesn't know about the Bayonet Constitution, or why it's called that? lol. The basic ass shit I learned in school would be considered radical even before the Trump push to ""de-wokify"" education, it's kinda wild