Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180702:05:05:00
Plantations and sugar mills, which the locals didn't want. the americans did what worked so well on the mainland, they took the land from the hawaiians at gunpoint. then you know the usa playbook. in an effort to destroy the native culture, they passed racist laws banning the hawaiian language from school and government. in 1898, congress officially annexed, aka stole hawaii and they become a u.s. territory, and it also became a u.s. target. see, japan didn't bomb hawaii because they had a beef with hawaii. hawaii was just a much more convenient american place to bomb than the west coast. hour...