Hawaii had the world's highest literacy rate (98%), world's first universal healthcare, renewable hydro-powered cities, near-zero homelessness and actual racial equality. The US invaded, destroyed our system, & banned our language and culture, turning us into a slave plantation.
Many Americans think that Hawai'ians lived in huts prior to colonization. The US actually de-industrialized Hawai'i. Before 1898, Hawai'i already had mass transit, railroads. The city of Honolulu was lit by nationalized, renewable hydropower before the White House had electricity
54% of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level TODAY, teachers quit in droves, w/ trillions in student debt which graduates can't pay. A stark contrast to Hawaii's universal free quality education. We had the world's highest literacy rate (98%).
Kalakaua, one of our leaders, had invented a sub-aquatic vehicle when Jules Verne was still dreaming up 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Hawai'i was a living Wakanda - an indigenous future: more technologically, economically, and socio-politically advanced than any Western Nation
The sovereign country of Hawaii had Black citizens before the US Civil War. In fact, US slaves that stepped onto Hawaiian soil were considered free. Chinese were full citizens in Hawaii as US chained them up to build railroads & West Coast, w/terrible racism, lynching of Asians.
An example of actual equality, democracy, existing socialism without racial hatred, greater technological advancement in a POC nation - it put the US, the West, and Europe to shame, blew their 'White Man's Burden' out of the water -- which was why they illegally crushed Hawaii.
Hawaii's coup - backed by US gunboat diplomacy - to smash a Non-White country's building of an actual anti-racist, socialist, thriving country was the blueprint that would later be used on countless Asian, Pacific Islander, Latin American, African, countries across the world.
To push the country back into poverty, dis-educate its people, 'obliterate the history', de-develop its infrastructure, and plunder resources and cheap labor. (Homeless tent city is where I worked as social worker/STEM teacher for impoverished Hawaiians / AAPI at-risk youth)
A thread on my game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions. My experiences refracted through the lens of satirical cyberpunk. https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/113092063894254681
Help us Native Hawaiians at the poverty line not become homeless again or get forced from our own land, and keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. https://ko-fi.com/silverspook https://patreon.com/c/neofeud
If you missed it, an indigenous 'Thanksgiving' discussion with Native Hawaiians, Mig Maw, Cherokee and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKr14hQ4zlA
As a Native Hawaiian, Disney should not make #Moana movies & stop stealing Hawaiian culture for profit. Also, end the $144 million Disney Aulani resort on our stolen land, & stop collaborating w/ the US military occupation that poisons our water, & banned our language & culture.
@silverspookgames thank you for the time and energy it must have taken to write all of this :blob_cat_heart:
@silverspookgames Thank you so much for sharing this. This is very interesting, and I never knew anything about this.
Jul 4, 2026, 10:30 PMSlotted between France and New Zealand for literacy. According to PIAAC, that's 'level 2', with only 6 countries at a higher level (level 3), none in at level 4 or 5.
Which implies no one is literate, never have been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_the_International_Assessment_of_Adult_Competencies
But... did it have McDonald's?