Rise to King Sugar
Nov 10, 2011
This chapter of this book was so hard to read because it is all true, extremely depressing and just disgusting on every level. It clearly shows how the Hawaiian Kingdom was stolen, taken over by greedy businessmen namely the "Big Five" and forever changed and ultimately illegally and against the common will of the Hawaiian people annexed without documentation to the United States resulting in the complete control and dominance of the American forces and businessmen of the sugar industry, which dominated the social and economic structuring of the islands that led to Statehood. This mentality and Western way of thinking and doing business is completely opposite of the Hawaiian people and way of thinking with reverence and respect to the land that feeds us...WE ARE NATURE, NOT SEPARATE FROM NATURE. The influences of the sugar industry in Hawaii were the downfall of the Kingdom and the people. They came to dominate every town, land, water sources, economy, labor and politics it is just sickening to read this stuff. They brought in big industry, big machinery, big irrigation practices, chemical fertilizers and methods of farming that desecrates and destroys the natural ecosystems, the soil, the water flow, the forests, the reefs, the people of the land.....HAWAIIANS DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE AGAINST THESE MONEY GREEDY, CAPITALISTIC WESTERN ECONOMIC DRIVEN BUSINESSMEN. In my opinion this is still going on across America, and the world, to the small organic and community based way of life...Look at Monsonto and what they do and represent. They have their largest research and test fields here in Hawaii and in just a short time have come to dominate food quality, and sources in the world by poisoning our soil and organic seeds with the Genetic Modification process food. And our food source with 70% of our overall food being contaminated..We cannot be sovereign from the US until we can be sovereign with our food sources/practices as well as our economy in my view. Until we start to actually implement the wisdom of the kupuna and the elder generations to go back to healthy agriculture, organic farming, composting, recycling, getting back to being sustainable on a whole I do not see any chance at survival of any humans of any ethnicity or any place on the Earth. Food production has to be in our yards, our communities with the people being in control not big industry like the "The Big Five" taking over and dominating our futures and of our children. I could go on and on about this stuff but I do not want to preach anymore....I'm scared for our children and for our planet and all of our future. We have to take some responsibility and stop the mass hegemony that is going on at a world scale. We have to be aware of our farming practices, of our purchases (they equal votes), of our dependence on unsustainable ways of living....the big powers and controllers have us hooked like junkies on crack. We all need to wake up, get more educated to stuff in a quick hurry, spread the mana'o and use Mother Earth as the mirror of how to do stuff that is pono and in harmony with Earth. I have too much to say and I can feel a heart attack coming on right now so I have to stop for now....be back as soon as I can cause we are out of time people....WE HAVE TO LOOK TO OUR ELDERS WAY OF LIVING WITH THE LAND TOGETHER IN SUSTENANCE INSTEAD OF DEGRADATION HOW THEY HAVE BRAINWASHED US INTO DOING....WE DOING JUST WHAT THEY WANT....HEGEMONY PEOPLE.....MY FAVORITE QUOTE...."DON'T BELIEVE A WORD I SAY...GO LEARN FOR YOURSELF" Kumu Kaleikoa
mahalo
Annjulie
resources:
rise of king sugar from the book Hawaii under the Influence
Definition of Hegemony (one of on google)
short history of the “big five”
the big five in Hawaii Business Journal
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