U.S. OBSCURES REAL HAWAIIAN HISTORY
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Letters to the Editor
Saturday, January 15, 2005
James Kuroiwa Jr. is an American who has no roots during the time of the U.S. invasion of the kingdom or prior to it ("Akaka bill opposition will lead to dialogue," Letters, Jan. 13). He is preaching to the choir who are directly involved and many who never acknowledged the United States as possessing our country.
Most of the islanders living here today have no knowledge or involvement of that part of our history. They only know the one-sided American revisionists' version of the events, which white-washes the U.S.' involvement in destabilizing the kingdom's government and its takeover.
We know the truth, and Kuroiwa has yet to learn it. The plebiscite of 1897 has been ignored and the Statehood Organic Act has been deemed irregular and thus illegal and unlawfully executed.
The United States contends that the people of Hawaii voted for statehood, but only Americans were allowed to vote. Many Hawaiian subjects were barred from participating. Now that's the truth.
David M. K. Inciong II
Pearl City, O'ahu
