onthedrop wrote: Whos being racist?gang members and greedy tribal leaders. While it may be "racist" mana is headed by Hone a known politcal activist fighting for the rights of his people hes only looking out for his and power to him thats what his supporters want no different to the likes of key looking after his voters just a little less selfishly me thinks. |
v8-coupe wrote:
The problem I have is that neither he nor his supporters are Maori. They are New Zealanders of Maori descent. This proposal is racist/seperatist in the extreme. This was tried many years ago and was canned. The reason being, although they got favourable loans and conditions they still did not pay the money back. The Governement at the time wrote off tens of millions of dollars. I used to work with a guy who married a New Zealander of Maori ancestry. He came in crowing about this deal and that he and his spouse could now get a house. I thought "Good on them". A year or so later he tells us he has had his loan written off through an IWI authority and he still gets to keep his house. Once again I thought "good for them". As I have grown older and seen the blatant Governemnt sponsered racism/seperatism that has grown since that time I have become bitter. I was always brought up to believe we should all be treated equal. I have since learned that is not true. Some, by virtue of an accident of birth are entitle to more consideration than others. The street I grew up in had it share of racial diversity. We all played together, went to school together and socialized together. We all did well at school. Even those of Maori and Pacific descent. However since the the renaisance, these cultures started crying the "white mans" educational system is no good for our children. Education has since been dumbed down to allow for more New Zealanders of Maori and Pacific descent to pass. Special seats have been set aside at Universty to accomodate them even though they do not need to meet the equivalent marks as the rest.
This and many other pieces of racist/seperatist legislation has done neither them nor New Zealand as a whole, any favours. Under the cloak of his heritage, Harawira gets away with a hell of a lot more than any "whitey" would. He truely epitimizes the face of racism/seperatism and hides behind the wall of "my/his people" |
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