My pride is like the red that’s scattered with the green and yellow on my flag. Kanaka Maoli symbols pierce my heart with chants flowing from my soul. Vibrant, commanding, demanding the attention of those who overlook everyone. Ancient history. . . Unsolved mystery, trying to confine me into a skin I am not in, yes I lack melanin but I don’t lack the heart and you can’t confine me into a category that I have no part. . . defining me as something I am not, must I correct everyone there’s more than two nationalities in this world. Colorism blinds you to who I really am. Your eyes can’t see glory because you’re too busy trying to trap me into a box, but I come out swinging every.single.time. I fight for the causes most won’t fight for their own. . . But I carry the weight of my ancestors who have been stripped from our land, dethroned, the monarchy. . . they broke the law the law the boys in blue don’t seem to follow. Trauma, nightmares, I never forget what they look like. . . Black batons. . .Beautiful Brown skin, eloquent Black thought. . . anger, pain, trauma, love, grace
runs through my bones I know this feeling isn’t mine to own. . . replace the mystery with answers from true history, tracing lineage back century’s only to realize you still confine me because you don’t understand me. An heir to a legacy, a product of a dynasty, the forgotten people who conquered land, life, and the constant sustaining of life as you try to constantly erase us. . . as you constantly try to erase me.
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The Polynezian Rezister 
LOVE, LOVE and LOVE some more!!!! ❤
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Exquisitely balanced the depiction of PRIDE and frustration, mystery and truth, happiness and anger! You keep me at the edge of my seat with every word as you lead us on a journey of your ancestry. Your words ignite my urge to research my own ancestry (European and African). I love your passion, keep it up! ❤
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WORD!!!!!
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Share Auntie! ❤❤
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I love how you’ve found a platform to express yourself on a subject that most people think of as a “Hawaiian Problem” , Oppression exists everywhere and it’s a human problem and sometimes having a platform like this is a great way to deflate some of the bad air that comes with trying to burden these social/ cultural issues before they become an identity problem. I love you cousin! your identity is an important key that unlocks some of these struggles our people are chained to, Manao is much needed in this ever changing world we live in, keep pushing your roots deeper and deeper! EO!
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Thank You Cousin!! I didn’t need a huge platform but I’m grateful to have a small platform and to help people understand we are still very alive in our ways and customs. We have each other and our ancestors taught us one thing about being Polynesian and that is to resist the thought that confines us to be something we’re not. We are strong, love and pride altogether. We are Hawaiian!
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