Been trying to create a post about this and I'll get around to it when life isn't kicking my ass, but we definitely sealed the deal of overthrowing them because of macadamia nuts. Sugar cane, pineapples, and macadamia nuts not native to the island. But it takes 7 to 10 years for the macadamia nut tree to mature to bear fruit. Colonizers planted these under the guise that it was for wind protection for the sugar cane. Then literally right when those trees started to mature they did the coup. Macadamia nuts are the most expensive nuts in the world.
- The fucked up thing with writing about Hawaii is that as soon as you start looking into it... it never ends. It just never ends. There's always something else that you uncover. This essay's reading time is estimated at 15 minutes and at some point I had to say stop, say it's good enough as it is (I didn't even have the space to get into the ancient history of Hawaii and had to start in 1887), otherwise it will be an entire encyclopedia. It's fucked up. In all the research I did for this I never even once came across the macademia nuts! On Reddit someone quickly told me about Pearl Harbor before the base and I stealthily added a paragraph about it since I mention the base at the beginning. It never ends.