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Thurston Twigg-Smith, a descendant of Lorrin A. Thurston and former owner of The Honolulu Advertiser, and Davianna Pōmaikaʻi McGregor, professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawaii, disagreed sharply over whether the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy was a revolution or an illegal invasion. McGregor argued that the matter had been settled by the federal Apology Law of 1993 (Public Law 103-150), which she helped draft and which she said formally acknowledged United States responsibility for the overthrow; she called for repatriation of crown and government lands to native Hawaiians as the next step toward reconciliation. Twigg-Smith countered that the law's preamble clauses carried no binding legal force and that the overthrow should be understood as a justified response to a monarchy that had grown unstable and was losing the confidence of its own supporters. He also denied that the events of 1893 or subsequent annexation had victimised Hawaiians. Both guests took listener telephone calls during the programme's second half.
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