Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 28, 2023 5:24:40 GMT 12
John Robinson: ON KAPITI COAST DC’S IDEAS FOR HAVING A MAORI WARD
I want to live in a community where I am the equal of my neighbours. Where we all belong because it is our land, and we are one people. Meeting together, debating together and voting together.
There is too much racial division in New Zealand. We should aim to reduce the differences, to remove them completely. Not to add more. This is what you propose, with the introduction of Maori wards in Kapiti. Since Maori are believed to be a race (the official definition is “a Maori is a member of the Maori race”), this is racism, the very opposite to the first principle of the United Nations (“all human beings are born free and equal”).
You wish to take Kapiti in the wrong direction. Such separate Maori wards have been refused by popular opinion whenever all the people can speak of what they want in their community. When binding referenda were held in 2018, in five municipalities, all opposed race-based Maori wards: those voting against were 80% of ratepayers in Kaikoura, 78% in Western Bay of Plenty, 77% in Manawatu, 69% in Palmerston North and 56.4% in Whakatane.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/john-robinson-on-kapiti-coast-dcs-ideas.html
I want to live in a community where I am the equal of my neighbours. Where we all belong because it is our land, and we are one people. Meeting together, debating together and voting together.
There is too much racial division in New Zealand. We should aim to reduce the differences, to remove them completely. Not to add more. This is what you propose, with the introduction of Maori wards in Kapiti. Since Maori are believed to be a race (the official definition is “a Maori is a member of the Maori race”), this is racism, the very opposite to the first principle of the United Nations (“all human beings are born free and equal”).
You wish to take Kapiti in the wrong direction. Such separate Maori wards have been refused by popular opinion whenever all the people can speak of what they want in their community. When binding referenda were held in 2018, in five municipalities, all opposed race-based Maori wards: those voting against were 80% of ratepayers in Kaikoura, 78% in Western Bay of Plenty, 77% in Manawatu, 69% in Palmerston North and 56.4% in Whakatane.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/john-robinson-on-kapiti-coast-dcs-ideas.html