Happy Fathers Day 2 Our Friends!

My ex.,Terrell's popsThe last white tee my lil son wore in this lyfe @ the murder scene. Rest In Paradise & by my side, Son.
Doobie wearing it for big cuzzo Rell..u c it!
Queen Liliuokalani was a queen whom loved her people so much that she sacrificed her country, her freedom & her throne for them, so that no hawaiian blood would be spilled should there had been a revolution. In 1893, Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was deposed in a coup organised by Stanford Dole, an American pineapple magnate, and supported by US marines. Five years later the islands were annexed. The Queen yielded her throne, under protest, in order to avoid bloodshed, trusting that the United States government would right the wrong that had been done to her and the Hawaiian people. It never happened other then an apology passed by Congress and signed by President William J. Clinton November 23, 1993, on paper. Sugar and a coerced constitution played roles in the drama -- intertwined themes of economics and politics. Sugar was by far the principal support of the Islands, and profits and prosperity hinged on favorable treaties with the United States, Hawaiian sugar's chief market, creating powerful economic ties. As the Islands' sugar industry grew, large numbers of contract laborers were imported first from China, then from Japan, the Phillipines and other countries, to work on the plantations -- the beginning of Hawai..i's present multicultural population. Plantation ownership and control of the business community were in the hands of men of American or European blood. Most were the grandson's & relatives of the very missionaries earlier natives embraced & welcomed onto the islands. They went thru great lengths to exterminate the Hawaiian race but the Queen raced back from her trip to England, which she was tricked into taking to seperate her from her people. On her way to meet the Queen of England on invitation they put her in the back of the train w/ slaves due to the color of her skin & features, regardless of the fact that she was royalty. She was shocked & appalled after meeting & speaking w/ African slaves for the very first time which raised great concerns for her own people back on the islands. This caused her to return early. Unfortunately by the time she returned almost 2000 Hawaiian men & young boys had already been tricked into boarding ships w/ the promise of jobs on U.S soil. All were assumed dumped at sea. The ships return w/ out one Hawaiian & never made it to American soil. The Queen was devastated. This flag represents the great sufferings, humilation, injustice, murder, racism & manipulation bestowed upon our Queen & Hawaiian ancestors. It is a continous reminder & an insult to the Hawaiian people whom are Hawaiian by blood. A short time later, the queen had no choice but to surrender Hawai..i's sovereignty not to the revolutionaries but to the "superior force of the United States of America" -- temporarily, she believed -- confident that the American government would restore her to the throne. Lili..uokalani wrote to Cleveland requesting redress, and young Princess Ka..iulani went to Washington to appeal for the monarchy and the Hawaiian nation, impressing the president and all who met her with her beauty and dignity. President Cleveland sent to Honolulu special commissioner James H. Blount, former chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Blount's job was to investigate the circumstances of the revolution, the role Minister Stevens and American troops played in it, and to determine the feelings of the people of Hawai..i toward the provisional government. He ordered the troops back to their ship and the American flag taken down and replaced by the Hawaiian flag. Blount's final report charged that Stevens conspired in the overthrow of the monarchy, which would not have taken place without the landing of U.S. troops. Blount recommended restoring the queen. Based on Blount's findings, President Cleveland decided that, in the name of justice, he would do everything in his power to reinstate the queen, provided she would grant amnesty to those who had overthrown her government. The idealistic Cleveland, in assuming the provisional government would willingly relinquish power to her at his request, misjudged the character and tenacity of her adversaries. The new American minister in Hawai..i, Albert Willis, expressed to the queen the president's regret that the unauthorized intervention of the United States had caused her to surrender her sovereignty, and his hope that the wrong done to her and her people might be redressed. Willis told her the president's condition for reinstating her on the throne was that she grant full amnesty. Lili..uokalani replied that according to Hawaiian law, the punishment for treason was death, but that she would be satisfied with banishing them from the kingdom forever. Later, she agreed to accede to the president's wishes. Willis next went to Sanford Dole and the provisional government, assuring them of the queen's amnesty. Speaking for President Cleveland, Willis acknowledged the wrong committed by the United States in the revolution and requested them to resign power and restore the queen. The answer, of course, was no. They repudiated the right of the American president to interfere in their domestic affairs and said that if the American forces illegally assisted the revolution, the provisional government was not responsible. On Dec. 18, 1893, President Cleveland made an eloquent speech to Congress on the Hawaiian situation. He had harsh words for the landing of American troops at the revolutionaries' request. He ended his speech by stating, "... if a feeble but friendly state is in danger of being robbed of its independence and its sovereignty by a misuse of the name and power of the United States, the United States cannot fail to vindicate its honor and its sense of justice by an earnest effort to make all possible reparation. President Cleveland concluded by placing the matter in the hands of Congress. In the end, Congress took no action either to restore the monarchy or to annex Hawai..i. On July 4, 1894, Sanford Dole announced the inauguration of the Republic of Hawai..i, and declared himself president. Unwilling to give up, many Hawaiians and other royalists accumulated arms for a counterrevolution to restore the monarchy. In the January 1895 uprising, led by Robert Wilcox, the royalists were forced by government troops to retreat into the valleys behind Honolulu, and after 10 days of fighting, most of them, including Wilcox, were captured. The republic's prize catch was Queen Lili..uokalani. A search revealed a cache of arms buried in the flower garden of her home. She was arrested Jan. 16, 1895, exactly two years from the date the American troops landed in support of the revolution. Imprisoned in a corner room on the second story of ..Iolani Palace, she was guarded day and night, allowed only one attendant and no visitors Shortly after she was imprisoned, Lili..uokalani was given a .. of abdication to sign and was led to believe that, if she refused, several of her followers were to be shot for treason. She wrote, "For myself, I would have chosen death rather than to have signed it; but it was represented to me that by my signing this paper all the persons who had been arrested, all my people now in trouble by reason of their love and loyalty toward me, would be immediately released ... the stream of blood ready to flow unless it was stayed by my pen." Grover Cleveland wrote: "I am ashamed of the whole affair." Sovereignty of Hawai..i was formally transferred to the United States at ceremonies at ..Iolani Palace on Aug. 12, 1898. Sanford Dole spoke as the newly appointed governor of the Territory of Hawai..i. The Hawaiian anthem, ''Hawai..i Pono ..I" -- with words written by King Kalakaua -- was played as the Hawaiian flag was lowered, and replaced by the American flag and "The Star-Spangled Banner." The Hawaiian people had lost their land, their monarchy and now their independence. Another loss came the following year, with the death of the beautiful young Princess. Ka'iulani, heir to the Hawaiian throne, at age 23. Liliuokalani remained an indomitable spirit, honored and revered by her people as a queen to the end. She died in 1917, at the age of 79, still waiting for justice. The observance of the centennial of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, ..Iolani Palace, draped in the black of mourning, was a powerful symbol. We are still seeking justice through legal means reparations, a fulfillment of trust commitments, settlement of land claims and the return of lands. We are, moreover, seeking recognition of Hawaiian sovereignty. Native Hawaiians should decide how we choose to structure sovereignty -- as a nation-within-a-nation, complete independence, or some other model. It is no longer a distant dream, but an attainable goal. 50,000 people have registered with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs under a program established in 2004 to draw together Native Hawaiians from around the world. The agency's goal is to register at least 118,000 Hawaiians to give the nascent [emerging] government credibility. There are about 400,000 people of Hawaiian ancestry nationwide, and 260,000 of them live in Hawaii. Anyone with a drop of Hawaiian blood may register
..Free my 4 eva friend & big brother Hadori from tha SHU, Pelican BayHadori sent me this, how sweet! Can't take pics in the SHU so he had to use an old one. R.I.P to his son Lil HadoriFree boo boo (Razor aka Wembe) from the SHU, Pelican Bay