Kavebear
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I was just disgusted to find out that Queen Emma and her family, on a transAmerican trip via train were so shabbily treated by the Americans due to the color of their skin.
Aloha. I think you mean Prince Alexander Liholiho (Kamehameha IV), Queen Emma's husband. Queen Emma was lucky enough to escape prejudice since she was a fourth white herself. The story was that Alexander Liholiho was accompany Gerrit P. Judd and his brother Lot Kapuaiwa to Europe and the United States on a diplomatic tour. He was told to get off the train by Americans who thought he was a slave. Not only that but in one incident a butler refused to served him or his brother because of their skin color. That would be the main reason Kamehameha IV was so anti-American and pro-British. Racisim is something the Hawaiian royals faced a lot from white people. Prince Jonah Kuhio onced punched a European count because he made fun of his race. During the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, the King of Saxony and the King of the Belgians (man behind the whole Belgian Congo thing) refused to accompany Liliuokalani to the Jubilee supper because of her skin color! That was the fear with most Hawaiians in the 1890s because they believed if they were annexed to the US they would lose all their rights like the African-Americans because of their skin color.
PS: Anybody interested in Hawaiian history should check my Wikipedia page here is the link User:KAVEBEAR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mahalo!