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Rough Draft # 1: Trask’s argument
Think of how America got to be the great nation that it is today. Was all the territory they
gained acquired the right way? What happened when several, now, states did not want to be
annexed and join the United States? Of course many will start to think of violence and injustice,
which is accurate. Through out this whole article entry, “The Color of Violence”, Trask
emphasizes the need for Hawaii to be returned to its sovereign state by unrevealing the United
States’ violent history and the abuse committed against non whites. She also argues that the
United States is a racist country whose dominant race are the white people.
America, a land of “opportunities”, or so we think. The United States was created for the
people by the people but it is as though the government was made to please the dominant race,
the white people. In a Social Justice editorial titled “The Color of Violence”, Professor at the
University of Manoa and indigenous nationalist, Haunani-Kay Trask states that America is not a
land of equality or freedom and that “a hierarchy by color [does indeed] exists (22)”. Her
purpose is to convince the reader that Hawaii needs to be returned to its sovereign state. Trask
supports her arguments by providing the reader with historical examples in order to testify the
colonists cruelty against the Native Americans and then as her main claim, finally, develops she
gives examples of injustices committed against Hawaii and its people and the need to be returned
to its sovereign state.
The United States is not the righteous nation one makes it out to be because if one were
to look back at the origins of America, one thing that will be clearly evident throughout it all is
the unjust treatment toward colored people. There is no way to hide that. Trask claims that the