The GOP revisits “White Man’s Burden” in Hawaii
I wonder if the people of Hawaii get worried when they see a bunch of rich white guys hanging out. Being tourist paradise, it would probably be more appropriate to say a BIGGER bunch of rich white guys than usual. The Republican National Committee winter organizational meeting is being held in Honolulu and the Reps are making plans to save our embattled middle class one tax cut for the wealthy at a time.
About 120 years ago another group of white guys started hanging out in Hawaii and then they started buying fruit and sugar plantations. Next thing you know Queen Liliuokalani got the old “heave-ho” and Sanford Dole, one of them rich white guys, took over, making the nation safe for other rich plantation owning white guys.
See, this was the time when American imperialists were big on the whole “White Man’s Burden” thing that we’d borrowed from the British, who used it as a justification for killing hundreds of thousands of brown people all over the world. We had brown people of our own to kill in the Philippines and in Hawaii, so killing them or deposing their leaders while taking over their country for American agribusiness in the name of “civilizing them” sounded better than plain old-fashioned imperialism, or it’s red-headed stepchild economic imperialism.
(I hope that paragraph wasn’t as exhausting to read as it was to write)
It is clearly with this spirit of civilizing Hawaii, as well as the rest of the nation that the RNC is going about it’s heroic work of bringing government back in touch with the average American. Jon Oliver from the Daily Show offered up this report from the GOP’s temporary tropical paradise headquarters.
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I must take this editorial opportunity to respectfully suggest that, as a future indirect subject of her Majesty the Queen, that she knight Jon Oliver if only for being one of funniest freaking people on television.
Filed under: Politics on February 19th, 2010
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