so yeah that fire in Lahaina, Maui? That was what indigenous activists were trying to prevent. That is why Land Back movements wants indigenous people to be the stewards of the land that was once theirs. Not kick out white people and settlers. But to prevent shit like that where a bunch of tourists/settlers wonât destroy the planet in their ruthless pursuit of productivity and profit. So yeah, think on that.
People are asking how was this white people fault?
Power lines, in Hawaii they are owned by Blackrock and Vanguard, keep catching on fire because they forget to turn off their shitty electricity. So when they eventually topple over, white people forgot to cut the Guinea grass planted by colonizers 200 years to feed cows which changed Lahaina from a a swampland to the fucking tinderbox that it is today.
But hey, grass is grass and no need to mow an invasive species, right colonizers? Oh shit, that global warming that these fucking oil companies spent decades telling us wasnât real is real and that dried up the land in Maui?
Now motherfuckers are trying to buy land off of the indigenous people in Maui because colonizers just love having part time homes, right?
But yay letâs celebrate the fucking billionaires who own homes in Lahaina because they are donating. Nope, no fucking correlation there right?
Indigenous Hawaiians have been saying how tourism is killing their islands for over a decade yet you fucking assholes keep mentioning how Tourism is the point of Hawaii as if that culture wasnât just about living instead of living for profit.
They donât want you there but you fuckheads insist of making it your timeshare goal. So yeah. Itâs absolutely settlerâs fault that this shit happening.
My mom pointed out that there was an âofficialâ request for people to come back to Hawaii, specifically Maui (from the Governor) in August.
NPR had a related article, but the people they interviewed were not native, they were people who had moved to Hawaii to profit - a surf instructor who had lived there for 60 years; there are other places to surf, a wealthy landowner with multiple different vacation rentals; a kind of business I actively want to fail because that is exactly the kind of behavior that prices native Hawaiâians out of housing they would otherwise be able to afford. (At least, this is how I am currently understanding Hawaiiâs economy.)
So anyways here are statements from native Hawaiians because this isnât about my perspective, itâs about theirs
The rebuilding effort must center the vision and leadership of Native Hawaiian people, while calling for the termination of any current leaders who have historically supported land dispossession and tourism over the health and well being of Native Hawaiians and residents.
