• dhcmrlchtdj@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So fucking terrible. Lest we forget, wealthy mainlanders have been displacing Hawaiians and other locals long long before this wildfire. Pacific islanders are a far too often forgotten victim of US colonialism and I hope everyone on Maui gets the chance to heal from this without fear of losing there home

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      1 year ago

      To make that worse, Lahaina was the former capital of the Kingdom of Hawai’i. They have lost their history once again.