Turn of the Centuries

“The Hawaiians are the native people of Hawaiʻi nei. They are the children of Papa and Wākea. They are the Indigenous sources. They are the roots of the taro.” - Haunani Kay-Trask Wind me waist ʻUehe , ʻami, and slide Up and down we go We kū’ē side-by-side Skank away your blues Till the morning light Rise a new day E kū’ē for your rights Honolulu Rifles missionary white militia vision Clouded with ambition, greed, and dreams of annexation listen Treacherous design, the bayonets made him sign The misnamed Hawaiian League plotted schemes and aligned With foreign-born conspirators, criminal subjects Well-versed in conquest destabilize the object The context elitism, whiteness, supremacy Deception with words. Committee of Safety? Lied to the world they don’t act in accordance Laws that are broken, they acted in forces On the palace grounds where they landed a fleet Overthrew the Queen with the US Navy But Grover said no it belongs to the people Wanted restoration but the forces of evil Held the occupation till their own man got Put in into office now to finalize the plot McKinley’s doctrine illegal invasion The senate didn’t ratify the treaty he was chasing Still he went and took it when couldn’t get the votes The Kū’ē Petition held deep in the vaults! “Congress shall not pass or enforce any law or resolution outside of the existing borders of the United States.” From week in to the weekend we see them let the weak in When it leaks out and they depress it the lesions are deepened We descend off the deep end too deep in well it depends Who does the pen’s allegiance give credence (shh) Preventative reason or repress the reception Try to resend as of recent the pretext since pre-text To the present, press reset, control, alter, delete it Created a scenic achievement that pleases as long as the readers believe it Succeeded we built tables that we’ll never have a seat at Paid the price for our limited time But it’s always a little too high and a bit outta reach so continue the climb See the tracks on the landscape tax on the back pay mass cracks for vanishing acts on the pathway As they pass the transaction on that slate epitaph second class rates on a mass grave As the foreign tide is rising enterprising on the prize overtake our home Holding the line when the waʻa capsizing realign foundation stones Struggle and we strive through the day and night as we navigate our lives thru the great unknown Kānaka still alive and forever we survive for the future seeds are sown Never giving up never giving in spear or the pen that’s the element that we living in Renaissance is a benefit like a medicine, resistance to a mind like a vitamin We goin’ keep that native intelligence, slap that pahu till oppressor is irrelevant Kū’ē is the center of the sentiment, Hawaiʻi nei, kānaka hold precedence Foreign tides rise over take our home Rinse away the right to our foundation stone Struggle and a strife through the great unknown Forever we survive from the root we grow Wind me waist ʻUehe , ʻami, and slide Up and down we go We kūʻē side-by-side Skank away your blues Till the morning light Rise a new day E kūʻē for your rights “Well, as far as I’m concerned, I’m a patriot of the Hawaiian Kingdom.”- Haunani-Kay Trask Wind me waist ʻUehe , ʻami, and slide Up and down we go We kūʻē side-by-side Skank away your blues Till the morning light Rise a new day E kūʻē for your rights When they look at Hawaiʻi, paradise is what they see Not the water pollution, by the military This ainʻt the land of the brave, or the home of the free ʻTil this day, my people fight for political sovereignty I want the smoke with anybody, that desecrates land You can still get slapped by these lovely hula hands Decolonization, no more cultural degradation No more military bases, we want ʻāina restoration We want LAND BACK and de-occupation For my people I will stand with no hesitation Donʻt want dependency, sustainability’s the goal Tourism economies is Babylon control My language still spoken, ʻohana’s still growing They try, but our spirit will never be broken Aloha means Joey Carter types gotta go My advice to tourists; visit, spend, go home This aloha ʻāina action is for real Our kingdom occupied cause they couldn’t steal Patriots on Kahoʻolawe say no deals Hōkūle’a proved our kupuna had mad skills Brada Iz over da rainbow reaching the masses Pūnana Leo ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi classes Charter schools at the capitol chanting ’em down How Sudden Rush made us all super proud to be brown 1954 The Democratic Revolution Settler backdoor deals model minority collusion 1959, setting the stage To be a territory or the 50th state All in all, the process invalid Because the option for independence was left off the ballot Often debated as the less of two evils Between a rock and a hard place is an occupied people From a territory laced with haole plantations To a poisoned state, military and tourist destination No pineapples but still Dol(e)ing out poverty wages Cuz under 50 stars nothing fundamentally changes. We are not American, is what weʻve been saying Nor Republican vs Democrat but de-occupation Our time is coming, and we have been patient In the death of the state lies the rebirth of our nation Foreign tides rise, overtake our home Rinse away the right to our foundation stone Struggle and a strife through the great unknown Forever we survive from the root we grow Foreign tides rise, overtake our home Rinse away the right to our foundation stone Struggle and a strife through the great unknown Forever we survive from the root we grow Wind me waist ʻUehe , ʻami, and slide Up and down we go We kūʻē side-by-side Skank away your blues Till the morning light Rise a new day E kūʻē for your rights Wind me waist ʻUehe , ʻami, and slide Up and down we go We kūʻē side-by-side “We are here for our future! We’re gonna reclaim it one kuʻi at a time, one hā at a time—slowly but surely.”- ʻĪmaikalani Winchester Skank away your blues Till the morning light Rise a new day E kūʻē for your rights “So my call out to you, ʻōpio, take up the call to aloha ʻāina. Not just take care of the land, of course, but to take care of the nation, to take care da truth, to take care of our kuleana, to take care of ourselves.” - ʻĪmaikalani Winchester