123 years ago in 1893, US marines at the behest of US sugar companies, violently ousted the Hawaiian government & installed white supremacist colonial rule causing a diaspora of hundreds of thousands of Hawaiians. Many live in poverty & squalor in California & elsewhere in the US. In 1959, Hawaii was made a US state.
Iz Kamakawiwo’ole was a traditional Hawaiian singer & Hawaiian sovereignty activist who represented the traditional culture & aspirations of Hawaiians. A national liberation movement still exists & this is posted in solidarity with them. At some point, Hawaii will have to be returned to Hawaiian control.
Iz died in 1997. The final moments of this video are Hawaiians scattering his ashes in the sea.
Love dancing but over the years “Dancing With The Stars” has become too dull to watch. Still I had to watch Rick Perry (rightwing former governor of Texas & two time candidate for president) debut his wooden-ass on the dance floor. I have a real mean-streak when it comes to politicians like him.
He said he was thrilled to perform so he could dance at his daughter’s upcoming wedding. After his regrettable performance, resembling not so much dance as a scare crow flailing its straw limbs in a cyclone, the daughter might want to call off the wedding or at least bow out of the father-daughter dance.
What is a guy like that good for? He stinks at politics, he can’t dance & it’s likely he’s never done an honest days work in his life. The only dancer worse was Ryan Lochte, the lying-assed Olympian swimmer who went on a drunken vandalism spree in Rio & claimed he was robbed at gunpoint.