Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 4, 2024 14:53:21 GMT 12
Tony Orman: CABINET MINISTER DOUG GRAHAM HAD IT WRONG - ANYONE CAN LOVE RIVERS/MOUNTAINS
Former National government Treaty Minister in the 1990s Doug Graham once said that “Maori had spiritual feelings for lakes and mountains and rivers that Pakeha people neither shared nor understood.”
I would be surprised if Doug Graham had much to do with the outdoors and particularly with trout or salmon fishing and just going with the flow out there with the river. But those “spiritual feelings” he attributes exclusively to Maori are wrong and arguably racist.
NO FULL-BLOODED MAORI
Besides what exactly is a Maori? There are no full blooded Maoris in 2023 according to most people, although I understand there may be a very few. Certainly many of those involved in Maori advocacy have a minority of Maori ethnicity. It is said Sir Tipene (Stephen) O’Regan for example is only 1/16th Maori. So when Doug Graham talks of Maori’s “spiritual feelings for lakes, mountains and rivers” is he saying that Tipene O’Regan’s 15/16th European heritage has no emotional attachment to lakes, mountains and rivers, but the 1/16th Maori heritage does?
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/01/tony-orman-cabinet-minister-doug-graham.html
Former National government Treaty Minister in the 1990s Doug Graham once said that “Maori had spiritual feelings for lakes and mountains and rivers that Pakeha people neither shared nor understood.”
I would be surprised if Doug Graham had much to do with the outdoors and particularly with trout or salmon fishing and just going with the flow out there with the river. But those “spiritual feelings” he attributes exclusively to Maori are wrong and arguably racist.
NO FULL-BLOODED MAORI
Besides what exactly is a Maori? There are no full blooded Maoris in 2023 according to most people, although I understand there may be a very few. Certainly many of those involved in Maori advocacy have a minority of Maori ethnicity. It is said Sir Tipene (Stephen) O’Regan for example is only 1/16th Maori. So when Doug Graham talks of Maori’s “spiritual feelings for lakes, mountains and rivers” is he saying that Tipene O’Regan’s 15/16th European heritage has no emotional attachment to lakes, mountains and rivers, but the 1/16th Maori heritage does?
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/01/tony-orman-cabinet-minister-doug-graham.html