>The sun-draped Hawaiian Islands first made contact with Europeans when British explorer James Cook arrived there in the late 18th century, and met his end in an argument with the natives in 1779. By the early 19th century, Hawaii was a layover island for American merchant vessels traveling to the Far East and the first missionaries arrived there in 1820. They brought Christianity and proper clothing to the natives and did well; their children did even better, and Honolulu came to look like a New England town. Hawaii came to be regarded in time as a de-facto US protectorate; in 1843, President Tyler and Secretary of State Daniel Webster declared that the islands were off-limits to the European powers and any attempt to seize control of them would be considered an act of war on the United States.>The annexation of California a few years later gave the US a Pacific coastline and allowed a more direct connection to Hawaii. In 1875 a reciprocal trade agreement with Hawaii was made and 12 years later a lease on a naval base at Pearl Harbor.
>Trouble was nonetheless building. The immensely profitable sugar business in Hawaii was hurt some when the 1890 McKinley Tariff imposed duties on the crop as a concession to Louisiana sugar planters. Further, the mostly American sugar planters in the islands were irate at the high-handed behavior of Queen Liliuokalani, who made the not entirely unreasonable claim that native Hawaiians should be in charge of their own country. The planters staged a revolt in January 1893 with the assistance of Army troops, called to the islands by the unauthorized orders of the American minister in Honolulu. "The Hawaiian pear is fully ripe and this is the golden hour for Washington to pluck it," he wrote.>Like Texas half a century earlier, the time seemed to be at hand for Hawaiian annexation to the United States and a treaty was sent to Washington. However, it didn't reach the Senate until outgoing President Harrison left office in March. Grover Cleveland began his second term and, always with a strong sense of justice, felt that the planters had wronged Liliuokalani. He withdrew the treaty from the Senate and sent a Congressional fact-finding mission to Hawaii, which reported back that the natives largely did not support annexation to the US at all. However, the only way to depose the planters was with military force, and that was politically unacceptable.
>The deposed queen could not be put back on her throne, but Hawaiian annexation was held off for another five years. Cleveland's refusal to annex the islands touched off a good deal of controversy and he was strongly criticized for it. A popular jingle went "Liliuokalani/Give us your little brown hannie." Nonetheless, Cleveland's sense of honor in an era of rampant land-grabbing around the globe was commendable. The Hawaiian pear continued to ripen for a bit yet.
Is this gonna be one of those things where Mexicans from LA move to Hawaii, pretend they're natives, and insult visiting tourists as haolis?
And oh hey, she had a nice rack.
>>18407574While one appreciates Cleveland's scrupulous sense of honesty, fact is if we didn't take the place one of the European powers would eventually.
>>18407589too bad she has that melanesian shrek phenotype
>>18407589Saggy fat chick tits that are being held up don't count
>>18407580It already happens. Most native Hawaiians got great replaced by Filipino-Chinese-Jap-White mongrels who complain about haoles stealing their land.
>>18407750I think that was the joke. There are hardly any native Hawaiians left, most died of introduced diseases or interbred with whites so there's just mutt LARPers who do as you said.
5 feather capes presented by the Hawaiian King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the king George IV, during their visit to London in 1824
>>18407574Hawaii had no future as an independent country, without the US it would be grabbed by one of the European powers or much worse, Japan and end up like happened to the Philippines in WW2. Also the Japanese were sending colonists to Hawaii since the 1880s to establish a fifth column there for future annexation schemes (wherever there are Japanese is Japan).
>>18407576Most Hawaiians understand the history. The annexation was illegal--was not a US territory at the time and, therefore, could not be annexed. Officially, this remains an illegal occupation and the unique land holdings that exist today and date back to Hawaiian kingdom times reflect this. The Hawaiian kingdom had consulates abroad and international treaties with the United Kingdom and US, was a constitutional monarchy, and the illegal overthrow occurred at the hands of a group of well-heeled settlers, many of whom were awarded land or inherited land awarded to their parents by the monarchy. The Queen never abdicated the throne; and a petition across the islands was presented the US at the time wherein there was an overwhelming outcry by the Hawaiian citizenry to reject US illegal occupation and reassert Hawaiian sovereignty.
the Hawaiians were hardly bone-in-nose savages by the late XIX century they were well Europeanized, the royal family were Christians, wore Western clothing, had Western style schools for their kids, and the royal palace even had electricity before the White House did.
>>18408480you forget that King Kamehameha created the Hawaiian kingdom by buying European weapons and subjugating the neighboring islands. the LARPer "Hawaiians" (ie. Asian/Mexican mutts) who cry about the 1893 coup forget that Hawaii was united by warfare and that the royal family were ambitious and planned to create a huge maritime empire by conquering other Pacific islands. at the same time i dread to think what would happen if Japan got control of Hawaii given their actions elsewhere.
that said, Kamehameha clearly didn't see the forest for the trees, he didn't think that the European powers might do to him what he did to neighboring islands.
Wait until you learn what the missionaries did.
>>18408502>Wait until you learn what the missionaries didvaccinate people against smallpox and get them to wear pants?
>>18408497Not kidding btw, the fucker wanted to expand his empire all the way to New Zealand.
>>18408497They forget that the royal family sold the people out to buy bling, allowed foreign colonizers to settle there, and allowed the military to decay so a handful of American plotters could overthrow them all-but unopposed.
>>18407574>>18407576White people: The absolute scariest beings this world has known for centuries
>>18407574>They brought Christianity and proper clothing to the natives and did wellThe beginning of the end for Hawaiians
>>18408529the royal family gladly accepted them to look civilized and not barbaric, so go kill them
>>18408538>the royal family gladly accepted themThe same madness that caught parts of Asia and Africa
>>18408497that's why one can't take leftist anti-colonalist rhetoric seriously. no the native people you're romanticizing weren't peaceful hippies they also conquered and genocided their neighbors.
>>18408475The native population has been replaced anyways, at least under the Japs there would probably be a coherent ethnic makeup on the islands and not just mystery meat Filipino-Chinese-Jap-White mongrels
>>18407580Most Hawaiian localists are more like Japanese-Portuguese-Samoan-White dudes
>>18409544>at least under the Japs there would probably be a coherent ethnic makeupYou mean like literally nowhere else they colonized aside from Korea? Taiwan still has its own indigenous ethnic minority
>>18409647Taiwan is 95% Han Chinese, 3% indigenous minority. Hawaii is like 35% Asian, 20% White, 20% Mixed Race, 10% Hispanic, 10% Pacific Islander, just this total muttistan
>>18409852>Democrat voting Muttistan state in US has high life expectancy and some of the lowesr crime rates in the US wtf /pol/ lied to me?
>>18410217>wtf /pol/ lied to me?
