Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 19, 2019 16:24:26 GMT 12
Dame Anne Salmond: RACIST UNDERBELLY SEETHES JUST BENEATH SURFACE
After this terrible tragedy, let's be honest, for once. White supremacy is a part of us, a dark power in the land. In its soft version, it looks bland and reasonable.
Eminent New Zealanders assure their fellows that Māori were "lucky" to be colonised by Europeans, that te reo Māori is worthless, that tikanga Māori have nothing to teach us.
Others simply assume ancestral legacies from Europe are superior to those from the Pacific — in the law, science, social and cultural life.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213747
After this terrible tragedy, let's be honest, for once. White supremacy is a part of us, a dark power in the land. In its soft version, it looks bland and reasonable.
Eminent New Zealanders assure their fellows that Māori were "lucky" to be colonised by Europeans, that te reo Māori is worthless, that tikanga Māori have nothing to teach us.
Others simply assume ancestral legacies from Europe are superior to those from the Pacific — in the law, science, social and cultural life.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213747