Talk:History of Hawaii/Territorial Years

To quote from the current article: "...the years leading up to the 1898 Annexation of Hawaii was marked with wide spread protest from the Native islanders. [Readers: Annexation to the U.S. was not simply a Native Hawaiian versus white American issue; there were Native Hawaiians who supported annexation, as there were American and European whites who were against it. Many of Hawaii's royalists were also Europeans, and to a lesser extent, Americans.]"

Sure, but this there-were-people-on-both-sides comment seems to undermine the *proportion* of Hawaiians who opposed annexation -- as documented for example in Silva's (2004) book "Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism" (Duke University Press). The headline should be the amazing scale of people who opposed annexation, not that there were a few dissenters. Highlighting the unsurprising fact that the "wide spread protest" was not "universal" would appear to convey a kind of false equivalence. I would suggest deleting the quoted parenthetical.