white guilt

i got Princess Kaiulani because the preview looked good. turns out, the movie is slow and predictable and not very good. but, i learned new stuff about hawaii and was disgusted with the past and the shit white people tried to get away with.

princess kaiulani was the princess of hawaii around 1880s. she had a hawaiian mom and old man scottish dad. her uncle was king and the decedents of the three original missionaries who took over hawaii want to take over the government. dole is one of them, but the really bad one is someone not famous.

so, there's an armed upraising and kaiulani's dad sends her to england so she'll be safe. oh, her mom's dead at this point. so, most of the movie is about her life in england and how people are mean to her sometimes because she's brown and a princess and how she falls in love with a british guy who says he'll follow to hawaii and that he loves her.

but, when she needs to go back because things are really bad on hawaii and the white people have her aunt (now queen after the death of her uncle) under house arrest and the natives can't own land or vote, even though they're 90% of the population.

so, she goes to washington dc and pleads her case and she gets an audiance with presendent cleveland and he says he'll back her.

and, she goes to hawaii, which is about to be annexed to be part of the usa. kaiulani saves the day by giving a big state dinner and making a speech about how her people need the right to vote and dole backs her and the other guy leaves angry.

then, her white fiances shows up and loves her, but not enough to live in hawaii and live with her having any power. so, he leaves. and, she dies at 23, about a year later.

sorry that was so long. i didn't know any of that stuff about hawaii. and, it's fucking horrible that even after the civil war, fucking white minorities wanted to oppress the hawaiians after taking their country from them. assholes.