Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 12, 2018 17:22:39 GMT 12
HURRICANES APOLOGISE FOR 'RACIST' POSTER
The Hurricanes have pulled a controversial poster it used on Facebook to advertise its upcoming clash with the Chiefs after it was labeled disgusting and racist.
The image was taken down within an hour of the first complaint made by Kaupapa Māori expert Dr Leonie Pihama.
She said many descendants of people who died in the Taranaki Land Wars were furious about the advertisement.
"It's not the kind of get up and fight response that I think they thought they were gonna get, but they've got a response from the descendants of people who were murdered, of women who were raped, descendants who exist in a context of parents who are still trying to heal from the historical trauma of those events."
She said there a major ongoing issues which stem from the colonial wars within Taranaki.
"We are still fighting for the return of the Pekapeka Block in Waitara, we see Parihaka papakainga still going through a process of healing in relation to their conversations with the crown.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/354802/hurricanes-apologise-for-racist-poster
The Hurricanes have pulled a controversial poster it used on Facebook to advertise its upcoming clash with the Chiefs after it was labeled disgusting and racist.
The image was taken down within an hour of the first complaint made by Kaupapa Māori expert Dr Leonie Pihama.
She said many descendants of people who died in the Taranaki Land Wars were furious about the advertisement.
"It's not the kind of get up and fight response that I think they thought they were gonna get, but they've got a response from the descendants of people who were murdered, of women who were raped, descendants who exist in a context of parents who are still trying to heal from the historical trauma of those events."
She said there a major ongoing issues which stem from the colonial wars within Taranaki.
"We are still fighting for the return of the Pekapeka Block in Waitara, we see Parihaka papakainga still going through a process of healing in relation to their conversations with the crown.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/354802/hurricanes-apologise-for-racist-poster
