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let’s recap some facts about Hawaii, natively known as Hawai’i:

• It’s an archipelago
• settled by Polynesians and other Pacific Islanders
• whose destruction at the hands of white people began in the late eighteenth century, when Captain Cook’s crew decimated the native population with tuberculosis and STDs
• whose native monarchy was later overthrown at gunpoint by the British in 1843
• which was later illegally annexed by the United States with the help of the economically oppressive white minority
• which remains U.S. territory despite the fact that Bill Clinton signed a resolution in 1993 “apologizing” to the Native Hawaiians for the “deprivation of their rights to self-determination”
• in which white people remain a decided minority at around 25 percent.

Now, let’s recap some facts about Aloha, which was also originally called Hawaii:

• It’s a movie
• directed by a white man
• about Hawaii
• called Aloha
• starring a 100 percent white cast
• in which one of these white cast members plays a woman named “Allison Ng.”