This is the last African American Queen. The White American teachers will not teach you this nor will the Black Americans teachers teach you this. She is very important to African Americans as an example of strength, class, and fortitude. The Hawaiian people are even more important to us. Why? Because her story is our story. 14 years ago, I was caught up in the reparations movement, and I was researching a way around the issue of ‘standing’. The Federal court had summarily dismissed a reparations lawsuit because the reparations lawyers did not have standing [legal authority] to represent the African American people. This was a problem for two reasons, (1) how could we obtain the consent of the African American people and (2) who were the African American people? In pursuit of these questions I began an odyssey that took me out of EAST Africa at the dawn of time into the Andaman Islands, into South-East Asia, Indonesia, Australia, into the Americas and into Polynesia. This is where I met the Queen in 1898. In her face, you see All of those peoples, the INDIGENOUS people of the world! To my complete astonishment, I leapt up from my laptop and stood straight up in my living room and said DAMN, that’s it ‘WE ARE INDIGENOUS”. I started writing feverishly, and stayed up many nights, and drug myself to my professorship at a California College where I was teaching Constitutional law and American Government. I took a can of Pineapples to class and began teaching about “American Foreign Policy” by giving my class the example of how Doyle Pineapple Company had taken over Hawaii for land to grow pineapples and how the U.S. Government supported the invasion and annexation by force and how hard this beautiful Queen had fought for her people, while defining ‘Intervention’ and the reasons why we had invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. I informed my class that if you follow the money it would lead you to the reason for these wars. I rushed back home to be with the Queen, and I met Dr. Frances Boyle who is also an international attorney and Professor at the University of Illinois who was the main attorney for the Hawaiians and who had helped them fashion a “Plebiscite” in order to establish ‘standing’ to represent them in an international if need be, but to establish an Indigenous Hawaiian Government. My call to Dr. Boyle, who later became one of our directors in IHRAAM, [International Human Rights Association of American Minorities] and Dr. Yusuf N. Kly, my mentor [A contemporary associate of Malcolm X] confirmed my reasoning. In addition, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr.Clyde Winters, Dr. Barry Fell, Dr. Walter Neves and then the entire archaeological community all confirmed my reasoning that we were the first wave of Africans into America, we were also the 3rd and 4th wave [The Trans-Atlantic wave] only the 2nd wave were more Asian [The Bering Strait wave]. So when you look into the eyes of this Queen you are seeing yourself. I have written a book about this that is now out for copyright, but will be available in the summer, with pictures and over 200 footnotes of research.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:56:53 +0000
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