do you want to go bicolor? it was pretty unfair.is: we are being serious and funny in different parts of the conversation. we're talking about acquisition and annexation. there are other words we could use that are not so kind about what happened to the people in that summer. i am trying to get to the dark side of what happened in 1898. >> there are so many dark sides in white that it is like the >> cube -- in hawaii that it is like a rubic's cube. the hawaiian people have little resistance to diseases. when the first westerner arrive, there were maybe 1 million hawaiians'. a century later, there were maybe 40,000. they were wiped out so much by disease. a lot of what happened with the white people taking over the land, a lot of that was purely legal. it goes back to the generosity of the hawaiian monarch who privatized the land and made it illegal for foreigners to buy the land. 1898, the white residents owned about 90% of the land. almost all of that was legal. it was not pretty. the fact that it was legal -- many things that are