diverdave, your severe lack of factual knowledge about Hawai'i's history is clearly evident by the ignorance of your reply. The alleged "overthrow" of the monarchy was not a people's revolution. it was a coup d'etat carried out by 32 white supremacist racist Americans with the illegal backing of the US military.

may I direct you to the scholarly research of Dr Ron Williams Jr., professor of Hawaiian History at UH Manoa ? Dr. Williams has gathered a considerable amount of unimpeachable evidence in his research of Hawaii's history surrounding the "overthrow". The evidence proves that the members of the Committee of Safety were blatant and unapologetic white supremacist racists who believed that, as a non-whites, Hawaiians were inferior subhumans that were incapable of governing themselves, despite having done so for thousands of years, and that they needed white men to govern over them.

This attitude is typical of the white supremacist racist ideology upon which America was founded.