Bigots do Maori a disservice

[Kiwi Frontline]

Bigots do Maori a disservice

By Steve Baron

(Kiwi Frontline comments in blue font)

JUST a day or two into the job and the new Whanganui District Council chief executive Kym Fell was already under attack for suggesting that commercial relations with iwi offer a prime opportunity for Whanganui - that is, if a letter to the editor of this paper is anything to go by.

Or perhaps this was simply a ruse and an opportunity by a particularly bigoted sector of our community who just love to take any opportunity to Maori bash.

Most Kiwis are not anti-Maori but pro racial equality and what they do oppose is race-based policies and/or entitlements based on lies using guilt as a motivation.
 
New Zealand was once a country in which rights and responsibilities were based on citizenship irrespective of race.
 
Over the past 26 years unequal rights based on race have emerged.

Maori bashing is not uncommon - I hear it quite often from my fellow pakeha.

They are usually the uninformed, close-minded, uneducated, and of an older generation. Thankfully, a new and more informed generation is slowly taking their place. Unfortunately these people do not seem to be able to put themselves in the shoes of others.

See Reuben P Chapple's 'Wigger' article below)

To them, we are all New Zealanders and should all be treated the same. We all went to the same schools and, therefore, we all had the same opportunities - so they believe.

Although Maori may have had access to the same education system as pakeha, some have done poorly, just as some pakeha have done poorly. Maori and Pasifika peoples have, however, struggled disproportionately to others when it comes to education.

Perhaps this has its roots in repression or a different style of learning? However, this, and the growing income inequality in New Zealand has created a growing underclass, with Maori and Pasifika peoples representing a disproportionate share of that.

This leads to high unemployment and minimum wage low-skilled jobs, which barely allow them to survive. This often creates a discontent between the "haves and the have-nots" that manifests itself in society through crime, drugs, alcohol and poor health.

This is why these people need extra help, be they Maori, Pasifika or any other race.
It is what we do as a benevolent society and if we do not do it we will pay the price in some other form. This is why special funding is important if we are to make a difference. It should not be race-based but the fact is that Maori and Pasifika peoples tend to be those who need help the most.

Nor are my pakeha acquaintances racist, so they think, because they have "Maori friends".

They see no reason why Maori should be treated any differently or receive any government/council representation or financial support. These people fail to understand the frustration Maori have experienced since pakeha first arrived, and - more importantly - since the Treaty of Waitangi was signed (by some chiefs, not all).

The TOW was signed by approx 540 chiefs, at that time there were approx 600 tribes in NZ, therefore the TOW was signed by the vast majority.

Maori are our Treaty partners and deserve to be treated as partners, not as one of "us" or second-class citizens.

There is no partnership in the Treaty of Waitangi (Maori language version which the chiefs signed. The treaty was a simple cessation agreement between parties (not partners), one cannot be a subject of the Queen and a partner at the same time.

They may indeed have more pakeha blood in their veins through inter-marriage but if a person chooses to relate to their Maori heritage more than their pakeha heritage, that is their right. This is no different than a New Zealander of Irish descent choosing to relate to that Irish heritage more than their New Zealand heritage.

In a free society one is free to self-identify within the law as one sees fit.

What one is not free to do is put one's hand into other people's pockets and demand that they genuflect to what in this matter amounts to an elaborate self-delusion.
- Reuben P Chapple

The intention of the Treaty was to safeguard British interests, protect Maori from the inevitable consequences of depopulation and extinction. It was to encourage the rapid and peaceful amalgamation of the races and to ensure there was self-government.

But there is one aspect the bigots fail to accept about the signing of the Treaty - Maori perception of what they were signing was quite different to that of the Crown. Maori did not believe they were giving up the right to their land or their rivers.

The chiefs knew full well that they were ceding full sovereignty, this is evidenced by their speeches the day before signing the TOW

Maori were cheated out of vast amounts of their land, some of it confiscated without compensation. When angered at their treatment, Maori fought back and many were killed.

The chiefs sold most of New Zealand (land, rivers, trees, minerals) see example TURTON DEED 420

Maori rebels were warned that there land would be legally confiscated if they took up arms against the Queen. Much of it was returned later. See HERE

They have had to fight for their rights for centuries and only now are the injustices being remedied. How would you feel if you were unjustly treated, protested, and then the Government turned up and did this to your family?

Yes, Treaty settlements have gone on for too long which frustrates all parties. The bottom line is that issues like this take time and all parties have to be happy with the outcome. Whanganui Maori have now achieved their river settlement which gives them the opportunity to better themselves and the local community.

I can hear the cynical saying they will do a poor job or that only those Maori at the top of the pile will benefit. Yes, some iwi have done a poor job with their settlement monies, but others have done tremendously well.

MAORI ECONOMY’, in reality it doesn’t exist by itself, having been given assets from hard working Kiwi taxpayers augmented by sweetheart Government deals via questionable treaty settlements and other race based initatives while paying little or no tax, iwi groups maori incorporations (17.5%), charitable trusts (zilch). This fiscal creativity' doesn’t create a new maori business/economy, it has only changed hands (rearranged the deck chairs) so does not contribute anything extra to the New Zealand economy.

In 2010 Maori-owned businesses produced $22.2-billion worth of goods and services or around 11 per cent of GDP (BERL), but Maori are 15% of the population? THE SO-CALLED MAORI ECONOMY IS UNDER PERFORMING DESPITE GENEROUS DRIP FEEDS FROM CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.


Local iwi need to ensure that nepotism does not pervade how funds are managed but I have great faith in local kaumatua to do an admirable job because they are smart and capable people.

Please do not begrudge Maori any extra help they receive and do not attack people in authority who appreciate and understand how our Treaty partners are in a position to benefit us all.

-Steve Baron is a Whanganui-based political commentator, author and founder of Better Democracy NZ, and holds degrees in economics and political science - feedback to: [e-mail].

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[Kiwi Frontline]

'WIGGER/S'

If we’re going to import pejorative terms (bigot), let’s start using “Wigger” as a counterpoint to “bigot.”

Wigger applies to someone who rats out their own race for the warm glow that comes from “saving” a supposedly “oppressed” people.

There’s a raft of these self-despising race-traitors, both in our universities, and amongst the tertiary-educated, who have been helped by their Marxist lecturers to see that whites are to blame for all the evils of the world.

Reds and Pinks despise their own culture. They have been schooled to hate Western civilisation and regard Western countries as racist, sexist, colonialist oppressors. They desperately want to see other cultures as somehow morally superior to our own.

They’re not. The Judeo-Christian culture that originated in Athens, Rome and Jerusalem, then taking root in Europe, is vastly superior to other cultures. Many non-whites have also benefited massively in adopting Western cultural norms and values. This fact is undeniable to anyone except a moron.

Judeo-Christian culture hasn’t always lived up to its own standards (Crusades, Conquistadores, slavery, periodic unfair treatment of minorities), but has always self-corrected due to the principled actions of people of goodwill who have identified and remedied these shortfalls. This culture has raised more people from poverty, barbarism and ignorance than any other in world history. As such, it is to be celebrated, not denigrated.

At present, two Leftist-spawned currents are operating in our country: multiculturalism and biculturalism.

These terms refer to a specific political ideology.

Multiculturalism advocates that all cultures are equal. If they are equal it follows that the state is not allowed to promote any specific cultural values as central and dominant. In other words: multiculturalism holds that the state should not promote any particular culture which immigrants have to accept if they want to live in our midst.

It is promoted by Leftists who want to replace our Judeo-Christian culture with a global multiculture. They are doing this because they know that a cohesive nation state is the best prophylactic against the “world-mindedness” they mean to encourage in the service of global socialism.

This ideology of cultural relativism and its premises are wrong. Cultures are not equal. They are different, because their roots are different. That is why the multiculturalists are trying to destroy our roots.

There is an old saying which people of our Western culture are all familiar with. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” This is an obvious truth: If you move somewhere, you must adapt to the laws and customs of the land.

The multicultural society has undermined this rule of common sense and decency. The multicultural society tells the newcomers who settle in our cities and towns: You are free to behave contrary to our norms and values. Because your norms and values are just as good, perhaps even better, than ours.

Then, there’s biculturalism. Its promoters recognise and support the multicultural model referred to above, but claim that the cultural values of New Zealanders of mixed European-Maori descent identifying monoculturally as Maori should predominate on the basis of ancestral longevity in the land.

Principled opposition to unearned racial privilege is not racism.

Racism is often conflated by the political Left with simple prejudice, which it is not.

Racism occurs where a group of prejudiced individuals get together to create a SYSTEM of special privilege affording them unearned superior, separate or different rights to everyone else solely on the basis of group membership.

I will leave it to readers to decide if NZ is a racist country, and if so, which group benefits from this racism.

By Reuben P Chapple