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Northland Age 24/3/16
ERRONEOUS THEORY
Anahera Herbert-Graves describes in the Age for March 22, a number of old and erroneous theories of race but does not seem to realise that science has moved on a long way in the 150 years since the examples she quotes were aired.
As commentator Robert Wright wrote in The Atlantic Magazine for November 2013: "People", meaning all of us, magnify their grievances and do the reverse with their rivals ... you forget your sins and remember your grievances.... We're not aware of the Information [our] biases exclude ...
“The world's gravest conflicts are not over ethical principles or disputed values but over disputed facts.... We seem designed to twist moral discourse to selfish or tribal ends.
"The intense tribalism we are seeing, domestically and internationally, does suggest that we may he approaching a point of true planetary peril.”
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
DEFINING BY RACE
Anehera Herbert-Graves finished her blog (Northland Age, March 22) with a stinging sentence: "My advice is that we also ought to work with our Pakeha aIlies, Iike those from Network Waitangi, who are very able and willing to confront the culture from which racism came."
This group makes much of what it claims is a contradiction between Te Tiriti o Waitangi, which they say confirms Maori authority and sovereignty, and the official English text, which states that Maori gave their sovereignty to the Queen. They are silent on the fact that the treaty was drafted in English and translated into Maori, which means that the intent and meaning of the treaty is clear in the English. They are also silent on the Busby February 4 document, also known as the Littlewood treaty, that has only four minor differences from Te Tiriti, one being the date.
Network Waitangi is an organisation that asserts that a "dual or parallel exercise of power and governance was agreed to by the rangatira of the independent state of New Zealand".
The irony of all this is that it is the biculturalists such as Ms Herbert-Graves and Network Waitangi who are defining people by race, and undermining the democratic principle that all people are equal (abridged)
GEOFF PARKER
Kamo
The New Zealand Herald 24/3/16
UNDER IWI CONTROL
Mt Hobson is one of the jewels of Auckland’s parks. For some 40 to 50 years, in the spring, the daffodils on the northern slopes formed a beautiful field of remembrance for the casualties of World War II. The grass elsewhere on the mountain is kept in check by a small herd of cattle which also earns a grazing fee for the council.
On the mountain yesterday morning, I was told local iwi had forbidden the daffodils to be replenished by a team of volunteers, many of them schoolchildren. The bulbs were to be provided by the city. The iwi does not want the daffodils on the mountain and has had the commemorative plaque removed.
The iwi has also banned the cattle from the mountain. The grass is now long and unkempt, posing a problem of costly future maintenance.
It is hard to comprehend the thinking behind such daft demands. Local residents must vehemently protest. What will happen to our other volcanic cones?
A P,
Orakei.
Wairarapa Times-Age 24/3/16
MAORI PRINCIPLES NEED CLARIFYING
I read with interest the article on the Ka Rewa Centre at Lakeview School (March 14).
While I certainly appreciate the need for a school to be in touch with the community it serves, and sadly, often having to act as a social services as well as education provider, I am intrigued about the centre “following Maori precepts and principles of health, welfare and well-being”.
I wonder where these precepts and principles differ from modern New Zealand, or indeed universal, principles and practice. If these Maori principles are superior to the latter, perhaps we should all follow them. If they are not, we are doing these children a grave disservice.
D F
Masterton
ERRONEOUS THEORY
Anahera Herbert-Graves describes in the Age for March 22, a number of old and erroneous theories of race but does not seem to realise that science has moved on a long way in the 150 years since the examples she quotes were aired.
As commentator Robert Wright wrote in The Atlantic Magazine for November 2013: "People", meaning all of us, magnify their grievances and do the reverse with their rivals ... you forget your sins and remember your grievances.... We're not aware of the Information [our] biases exclude ...
“The world's gravest conflicts are not over ethical principles or disputed values but over disputed facts.... We seem designed to twist moral discourse to selfish or tribal ends.
"The intense tribalism we are seeing, domestically and internationally, does suggest that we may he approaching a point of true planetary peril.”
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
DEFINING BY RACE
Anehera Herbert-Graves finished her blog (Northland Age, March 22) with a stinging sentence: "My advice is that we also ought to work with our Pakeha aIlies, Iike those from Network Waitangi, who are very able and willing to confront the culture from which racism came."
This group makes much of what it claims is a contradiction between Te Tiriti o Waitangi, which they say confirms Maori authority and sovereignty, and the official English text, which states that Maori gave their sovereignty to the Queen. They are silent on the fact that the treaty was drafted in English and translated into Maori, which means that the intent and meaning of the treaty is clear in the English. They are also silent on the Busby February 4 document, also known as the Littlewood treaty, that has only four minor differences from Te Tiriti, one being the date.
Network Waitangi is an organisation that asserts that a "dual or parallel exercise of power and governance was agreed to by the rangatira of the independent state of New Zealand".
The irony of all this is that it is the biculturalists such as Ms Herbert-Graves and Network Waitangi who are defining people by race, and undermining the democratic principle that all people are equal (abridged)
GEOFF PARKER
Kamo
The New Zealand Herald 24/3/16
UNDER IWI CONTROL
Mt Hobson is one of the jewels of Auckland’s parks. For some 40 to 50 years, in the spring, the daffodils on the northern slopes formed a beautiful field of remembrance for the casualties of World War II. The grass elsewhere on the mountain is kept in check by a small herd of cattle which also earns a grazing fee for the council.
On the mountain yesterday morning, I was told local iwi had forbidden the daffodils to be replenished by a team of volunteers, many of them schoolchildren. The bulbs were to be provided by the city. The iwi does not want the daffodils on the mountain and has had the commemorative plaque removed.
The iwi has also banned the cattle from the mountain. The grass is now long and unkempt, posing a problem of costly future maintenance.
It is hard to comprehend the thinking behind such daft demands. Local residents must vehemently protest. What will happen to our other volcanic cones?
A P,
Orakei.
Wairarapa Times-Age 24/3/16
MAORI PRINCIPLES NEED CLARIFYING
I read with interest the article on the Ka Rewa Centre at Lakeview School (March 14).
While I certainly appreciate the need for a school to be in touch with the community it serves, and sadly, often having to act as a social services as well as education provider, I am intrigued about the centre “following Maori precepts and principles of health, welfare and well-being”.
I wonder where these precepts and principles differ from modern New Zealand, or indeed universal, principles and practice. If these Maori principles are superior to the latter, perhaps we should all follow them. If they are not, we are doing these children a grave disservice.
D F
Masterton