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The Northern Advocate 28/10/16
THE ‘RACE MYTH’
In 1950 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released the following statement:
“The biological fact of race and the myth of ‘race’ should be distinguished. For all practical social purposes ‘race’ is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.
“The myth ‘race’ has created an enormous amount of human and social damage. In recent years it has taken a heavy toll in human lives and caused untold suffering. It still prevents the normal development of millions of human beings and deprives civilisation of the effective cooperation of productive minds. The biological differences between ethnic groups should be disregarded from the standpoint of social acceptance and social action,” the statement said. “The unity of mankind from both the biological and social viewpoints is the main thing. To recognise this and to act accordingly is the first requirement of modern man.”
Now organisations (such as the United Nations and the NZ Government) promote separate racial identity as an ideal.
Mankind’s future hinges upon ascending from tribalism to unity, but instead we are following a retrograde path leading only to divisiveness and inequality.
The current crusade of politically correct leftists is to destroy democracy, with our successive governments weakly tagging along because of a paranoid dread of being labelled ‘racist’.
Notice the terror that afflicts our leaders at the mere mention of binding referenda. They are well aware that racially-slanted policies would have been quashed had the government dared to seek majority opinion.
Activists clamour for racial division, compensation f or events in which no one alive today took part, and distort a document of unity into one of apartheid.
Until we unearth a leader with the guts to say, “Enough!” we are destined to witness the disintegration of a nation that once led the world in interracial harmony.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
Marlborough Express 27/10/16
ANOTHER VIEW
Rino Tirikatene – more accurately Tregerthen – suggests ( Express, October 19) that local bodies ‘‘have nothing to fear from iwi partnerships’’.
I suggest that, on the contrary, we have a great deal to fear. This is because such "partnerships" strike at the very heart of democracy - one person, one vote, all of equal value, with the precious capacity to get rid of non-performing office-holders periodically.
Our colonists, unfairly berated today, came to New Zealand from lands beriddled with inherited privilege based on the accident of birth. They were determined that instead they would build a society where this was of no account, where all men and women were as good as they showed themselves to be and fairness was the guiding principle.
To our credit, for the few decades after World War II we achieved this, to the extent that is possible in an imperfect world, and were on the whole a happy country.
Now people like Tregerthen/ Tirikatene, a descendant of Cornish great-grandparents with a Cornish name like myself, but a small quota of Maori ancestry, aim to erode our hard-won democratic rights won in a slow process over centuries. We allow people like him to have their way at our peril.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Gisborne Herald 27/10/16
RENAME POVERTY BAY? DON’T CHANGE HISTORY
All of the history books show that in 1769 Captain James Cook landed in New Zealand at Poverty Bay. Do we have to change history to now read in 1769 Captain Cook landed in New Zealand at Turanganui-a-Kiwa?
We have been called Poverty Bay since 1769 by all other than Maori. Everybody knows that poverty is not an adjective to describe our region. It is only a historical word used to describe the area at the time of Cook’s landing. It has stuck ever since and so it should.
We are rich in so much more, thankfully, than countless other places in New Zealand. Unfortunately, we have a mayor who has only a one-sided vision. Meng, why did you not mention your desire pre-election? I am absolutely positive the result would have been very different.
It appears you are hell-bent on changing as much as you can to reflect only on our indigenous population although I am 100 percent certain there is no more than a very, very few if any, who do not have European blood in their veins.
“Tairawhiti” is springing up everywhere (without any consultation). Will it eventually get to the state where every European name is wiped from our city? No Grey, Peel, Carnarvon, Nelson etc?
Meng, you must not substitute historical names to suit your personal desires. How many Maori names are there in New Zealand that have an unappealing translation? I would guess at hundreds. Are they to be changed? History is history and no one has the right to alter it.
This decision must not be made by the mayor and councillors. End of subject.
M M
THE ‘RACE MYTH’
In 1950 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released the following statement:
“The biological fact of race and the myth of ‘race’ should be distinguished. For all practical social purposes ‘race’ is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.
“The myth ‘race’ has created an enormous amount of human and social damage. In recent years it has taken a heavy toll in human lives and caused untold suffering. It still prevents the normal development of millions of human beings and deprives civilisation of the effective cooperation of productive minds. The biological differences between ethnic groups should be disregarded from the standpoint of social acceptance and social action,” the statement said. “The unity of mankind from both the biological and social viewpoints is the main thing. To recognise this and to act accordingly is the first requirement of modern man.”
Now organisations (such as the United Nations and the NZ Government) promote separate racial identity as an ideal.
Mankind’s future hinges upon ascending from tribalism to unity, but instead we are following a retrograde path leading only to divisiveness and inequality.
The current crusade of politically correct leftists is to destroy democracy, with our successive governments weakly tagging along because of a paranoid dread of being labelled ‘racist’.
Notice the terror that afflicts our leaders at the mere mention of binding referenda. They are well aware that racially-slanted policies would have been quashed had the government dared to seek majority opinion.
Activists clamour for racial division, compensation f or events in which no one alive today took part, and distort a document of unity into one of apartheid.
Until we unearth a leader with the guts to say, “Enough!” we are destined to witness the disintegration of a nation that once led the world in interracial harmony.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
Marlborough Express 27/10/16
ANOTHER VIEW
Rino Tirikatene – more accurately Tregerthen – suggests ( Express, October 19) that local bodies ‘‘have nothing to fear from iwi partnerships’’.
I suggest that, on the contrary, we have a great deal to fear. This is because such "partnerships" strike at the very heart of democracy - one person, one vote, all of equal value, with the precious capacity to get rid of non-performing office-holders periodically.
Our colonists, unfairly berated today, came to New Zealand from lands beriddled with inherited privilege based on the accident of birth. They were determined that instead they would build a society where this was of no account, where all men and women were as good as they showed themselves to be and fairness was the guiding principle.
To our credit, for the few decades after World War II we achieved this, to the extent that is possible in an imperfect world, and were on the whole a happy country.
Now people like Tregerthen/ Tirikatene, a descendant of Cornish great-grandparents with a Cornish name like myself, but a small quota of Maori ancestry, aim to erode our hard-won democratic rights won in a slow process over centuries. We allow people like him to have their way at our peril.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Gisborne Herald 27/10/16
RENAME POVERTY BAY? DON’T CHANGE HISTORY
All of the history books show that in 1769 Captain James Cook landed in New Zealand at Poverty Bay. Do we have to change history to now read in 1769 Captain Cook landed in New Zealand at Turanganui-a-Kiwa?
We have been called Poverty Bay since 1769 by all other than Maori. Everybody knows that poverty is not an adjective to describe our region. It is only a historical word used to describe the area at the time of Cook’s landing. It has stuck ever since and so it should.
We are rich in so much more, thankfully, than countless other places in New Zealand. Unfortunately, we have a mayor who has only a one-sided vision. Meng, why did you not mention your desire pre-election? I am absolutely positive the result would have been very different.
It appears you are hell-bent on changing as much as you can to reflect only on our indigenous population although I am 100 percent certain there is no more than a very, very few if any, who do not have European blood in their veins.
“Tairawhiti” is springing up everywhere (without any consultation). Will it eventually get to the state where every European name is wiped from our city? No Grey, Peel, Carnarvon, Nelson etc?
Meng, you must not substitute historical names to suit your personal desires. How many Maori names are there in New Zealand that have an unappealing translation? I would guess at hundreds. Are they to be changed? History is history and no one has the right to alter it.
This decision must not be made by the mayor and councillors. End of subject.
M M