Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 15, 2022 4:43:57 GMT 12
MĀORI HEALTH UNDERFUNDING “RACIST”
Waipareira head John Tamihere says it’s time to call out the racists who have held back Māori health.
“The problem with that is they will argue institutional racism. There is no such thing as institutional racism. There’s racists that run institutions. Then they’ll argue ‘it’s unconscious bias. We didn’t mean to be prejudicial to you, discriminatory to you, we didn’t wan to put you down because we were unconscious about it.’ Well, that’s simply not true,” he says....
waateanews.com/2022/11/14/maori-health-underfunding-racist/
Waipareira head John Tamihere says it’s time to call out the racists who have held back Māori health.
“The problem with that is they will argue institutional racism. There is no such thing as institutional racism. There’s racists that run institutions. Then they’ll argue ‘it’s unconscious bias. We didn’t mean to be prejudicial to you, discriminatory to you, we didn’t wan to put you down because we were unconscious about it.’ Well, that’s simply not true,” he says....
waateanews.com/2022/11/14/maori-health-underfunding-racist/