Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 28, 2017 5:52:32 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 28/1/17
NEW NATIONAL DAY
Andrew Thorpe (Letters, January 19), in my view, misses the point of a national celebration.
Particularly when he says that this (protest and grievance airing) is the healthy tradition of Waitangi Day.
Patently this is not how most New Zealanders view a celebration. New Zealand has more ethnicities than the world has countries.
They must be surprised to see our national day as one of disrespect and insults.
Political agendas should take no place on this day which did indeed used to be an awesome celebration.
A New Zealand Day could be a time for all our ethnic groups, including Maori, to come together simply to celebrate our nationhood and who we are today. (Abridged)
RE STEPHENS
Mount Maunganui
Hawke's Bay Today 28/1/17
P USERS VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN CHOICES
In reply to the article concerning the P epidemic in yesterday’s paper.
I love one-liners, they reduce everything to its essence.
The one that comes to mind re the article is, “Let he who is without fault cast the first stone.”
I have half-Rarotongan, half-Tongan, half- Maori, half- Australian, halfEuropean and half-Pakeha New Zealand grandchildren of whom I’m immensely proud.
We are all in our mixed races doing our very best to live lives that are honourable, where we love and care for each other, and hold each other accountable for our actions.
It is no one else’s fault if we get into difficulty.
We have all suffered racism, reverse racism and unfair treatment at the hands of other people.
I congratulate Rex Timu for the work he says he is doing for his people, but no one made his people take P — they did it all by themselves just like everyone else. He is obviously a man with mana. My hope is that he may stop seeing his people as victims of anything other than their own choices; that is when lasting change comes.
MARY WOODFORD
Taradale
Southland Times 28/1/17
NOT SUCH A STRANGE OPTION
I see that the head of the Mongrel Mob in the Hawkes Bay has lodged a Waitangi Tribunal claim that states that the government's racist policies towards Maori have led to the high number of Maori addicted to methamphetamine (P). And to think the waste of space that is the tribunal, will probably hear the case. We are over due for a Donald Trump politician in NZ, so maybe Garth Morgan and his Opportunity Party, is not such a strange option.
NOBBY CLARK
Otatara
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
NEW NATIONAL DAY
Andrew Thorpe (Letters, January 19), in my view, misses the point of a national celebration.
Particularly when he says that this (protest and grievance airing) is the healthy tradition of Waitangi Day.
Patently this is not how most New Zealanders view a celebration. New Zealand has more ethnicities than the world has countries.
They must be surprised to see our national day as one of disrespect and insults.
Political agendas should take no place on this day which did indeed used to be an awesome celebration.
A New Zealand Day could be a time for all our ethnic groups, including Maori, to come together simply to celebrate our nationhood and who we are today. (Abridged)
RE STEPHENS
Mount Maunganui
Hawke's Bay Today 28/1/17
P USERS VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN CHOICES
In reply to the article concerning the P epidemic in yesterday’s paper.
I love one-liners, they reduce everything to its essence.
The one that comes to mind re the article is, “Let he who is without fault cast the first stone.”
I have half-Rarotongan, half-Tongan, half- Maori, half- Australian, halfEuropean and half-Pakeha New Zealand grandchildren of whom I’m immensely proud.
We are all in our mixed races doing our very best to live lives that are honourable, where we love and care for each other, and hold each other accountable for our actions.
It is no one else’s fault if we get into difficulty.
We have all suffered racism, reverse racism and unfair treatment at the hands of other people.
I congratulate Rex Timu for the work he says he is doing for his people, but no one made his people take P — they did it all by themselves just like everyone else. He is obviously a man with mana. My hope is that he may stop seeing his people as victims of anything other than their own choices; that is when lasting change comes.
MARY WOODFORD
Taradale
Southland Times 28/1/17
NOT SUCH A STRANGE OPTION
I see that the head of the Mongrel Mob in the Hawkes Bay has lodged a Waitangi Tribunal claim that states that the government's racist policies towards Maori have led to the high number of Maori addicted to methamphetamine (P). And to think the waste of space that is the tribunal, will probably hear the case. We are over due for a Donald Trump politician in NZ, so maybe Garth Morgan and his Opportunity Party, is not such a strange option.
NOBBY CLARK
Otatara
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
