Birtherism: The Legacy of American Colonialism in Hawaii

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Tuesday April 26, 2011 · 7:23 PM PDT

2011/04/26 · 19:23

Birtherism and the Legacy of American Colonialism in Hawaii

To understand how bitherism is an egregiously opportunistic ploy you have to first understand why Hawaii does not give out Birth certificates (certificate of live birth) but does issue certifications of live birth. The reason lay in how Americans culturally classify race and the politics of American colonialism.

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Thursday May 07, 2009 · 8:20 PM PDT

2009/05/07 · 20:20

Masochistic Martyrs at Heart
Let’s face it, Americans are masochistic martyrs at heart. Americans like to see themselves suffering at the hands of the "man." The man could be the ingratiating congress person, the pin striped lawyer, the stuffed suit banker, whatever. It does not matter if you wear a blue collar and pound nails all day, a white collar and sit in a cubicle, a pink collar and hold signs in Senate hearings, you like to suffer. No pain, no gain. If you don’t suffer then you have no stories of trials and tribulations, and thus no stories of overcoming trials and tribulations and you are nobody and nobody loves you. On the third day you arose from mortgage foreclosure, credit card debt, drugs, alcohol, disease, the misuse of your gun, maybe just your own general stupidity. Whatever, you arose from some kind of trial and tribulation and now you have a been there, done that, story to tell all your friends, your enemies, or maybe just yourself when you’re standing out next to the road with a sign: Please Give Me Money I Am Dumb As Shit and I Need To Drink To Forget.

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 6:35 PM PDT

2009/04/04 · 18:35

Mr. Obama You Do Not Know what You Do.

There are a lot of us who believed that "change you can believe in" actually meant what it clearly says. I, for one, am intensely disappointed. More than disappointed, devastated. Mr. Obama, you need to step back from the fete the thunderous accolades and rethink what you are doing, why you are where you are. As you said in your own inaugural address, "it is time put aside childish things."

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Sunday March 15, 2009 · 5:18 PM PDT

2009/03/15 · 17:18

Primitive Accumulation or Capital Accumulation 21st Century Style

First, I have never written a diary at dkos. So if I do not do this correctly, please do not flame me too harshly. I do not know why there is above the fold and below the fold and what is a "permalink"? But I am going to give it a go anyway.

To preface this I am an anthropologist, I teach anthropology to college students. One of the things that anthropologists do is attempt to analyze events on a rather long time scale, from the appearance of the first Homo sapiens sapiens around 200,000 thousand years ago to the present. This post does not go that far back, but the long term time scale is part of the issue.

Another prefacing issue is the realization that after reading a lot of dkos diaries and comments I have come to realize that there are a lot of people here with a lot of knowledge and can comment cogently on issues. Thus part of the purpose of this is to elicit responses that will clarify things for me. Thus the argument I make in the diary is also an attempt to get feedback that will help clarify what I teach to my students.

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