21 July

With the current news of continuing morbidity and mortality from Covid-19 in both the US and in many other countries in the world, and continuing anti-racist activities supporting Black Lives Matter with their suppression by Federal forces, little is said or known about one of the smallest racial-ethnic groups in the US, Pacific Islanders <http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=54192dbb-f4f8-4941-a225-ccf67e39a4d6>.

For Americans, perhaps the best-known of the Pacific Islands are the Hawai’ian Islands, now a state in the US. Hawai’i was originally populated by a cultural group that elsewhere in the Pacific and had established its own kingdom in Hawai’i by the time the US forceably gained control in the late 1890s. While Hawai’i is not likely to totally disappear with the rise in the ocean levels, the Marshall islands and probably other Pacific islands are disappearing. <https://nyti.ms/2jRt9fs>

When the Pacific islands are gone, or mostly gone, where will the population go? Well, the US is one place and Australia is another.