Epic takedown on its way, but first a preamble:
Are you going to Netroots Nation this year?Yes? Fantastic! Have a great time! No? Yeah, me neither. I wish I were. There’s gonna be something like 30 hours worth of substantive talks to mull over. I’ll miss them. Darn. Come to think of it, even you who are going will probably miss some of the talks. Won’t it be neat when videos of the talks are posted so those of us who miss them can watch? Of course, 30 hours of video is a lot of hours, and it’s not helpful to those who have difficulty hearing. Wouldn’t it be even neater if videos were posted with transcripts? That would make getting informed pretty darn efficient.
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Epic Takedown
Oh, and just for fun, here’s a little sample. This is the epic takedown referred to in the title. Kuma Haunani-Kay Trask, academic, activist, documentarist, and writer, responds to a caller.
Host: We have another caller waiting. Hello.
Caller: Hello.
Host: Go ahead. What's your question, please?
Caller: My question concerns you blame it on the white man about how we came over and take your land. I don't understand. When the Japanese come over and their buying it and that's okay? I don't see what this is about about the Haoles coming over. You come over to our country and buy up our land, too. It works both ways. I don't see how you can have these rallies and everything against the white man. This is America, you know. I mean …
Kuma Haunani-Kay Trask: Let me just say something to this caller. This is not America. This is Polynesia. Our country was stolen. That's one of your problems. You're ignorant, woefully ignorant.
I do, I am very active against Japanese ownership of our land. I have testified repeatedly at various commissions and at the legislature in opposition to any foreigner owning Hawaiian land, but you, caller, need to learn about Hawaiian history and where you are. That attitude that you have is the same attitude that Joey Carter has. You think that you are in America. You are not in America. You are in a colony that is in Polynesia that was forcibly taken. Just as, I might add, all of Eastern Europe was taken by the Soviet Union, which Americans think is a very bad place, the bad, bad, Soviet Union.
Well, the bad, bad United States of America took Puerto Rico. It took Alaska. It stole Indian land. It took Hawaii. It took Guam. It took Micronesia, Palau. You had better learn that history because you are the recipient of an imperialist tradition.
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