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A review by kingofspain93
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani
5.0
If he [King Kalakaua] believed in the divine right of kings, and the distinctions of hereditary mobility, it was not alone from the prejudices of birth and native custom, but because he was able to perceive that even the most enlightened nations of the earth have not as yet been able to replace them with a ruling class equally able, patriotic, or disinterested.
profoundly sad to read this incredible historical document by the last queen of a country which was taken over by the U.S. less than 150 years ago, and to know that for the people in power today (whities) her testament is already ancient history. colonialism feels inexorable, in large part because of the myth of democracy, which doesn’t work and is no better or worse than monarchy. and even as she wrote this, her mind and her country had been thoroughly christianized, and her own perceptions of the U.S. conditioned to the point that she largely ignores the colonization of the north american continent and the genocide of Indigenous people. we can’t go back to what was, but is it too late for anything to change? take up arms; colonization is not an historical inevitability.
profoundly sad to read this incredible historical document by the last queen of a country which was taken over by the U.S. less than 150 years ago, and to know that for the people in power today (whities) her testament is already ancient history. colonialism feels inexorable, in large part because of the myth of democracy, which doesn’t work and is no better or worse than monarchy. and even as she wrote this, her mind and her country had been thoroughly christianized, and her own perceptions of the U.S. conditioned to the point that she largely ignores the colonization of the north american continent and the genocide of Indigenous people. we can’t go back to what was, but is it too late for anything to change? take up arms; colonization is not an historical inevitability.