Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 3, 2019 6:30:03 GMT 12
Dominion Post 3/8/19
HARSH REALITY
A number of people, including former government minister Tarlana Turla and Greens Party co-leader Marama Davidson, marched on Parliament the other day protesting at the way Maori children are being taken from their families by Orange Tamariki.
Turla seems very strong in her belief that these children are better off with their own whanau or at the very least "where their whakapapa lies".
Could Turia please explain to me how this helped (among many others) the Kahui twins?
It appears to me that rather than intervene and protect these helpless little babies, whanau closed ranks after the event and protected the killer. A murderer remains free to this day.
This appears to make a mockery of Davidson's statement that "the torture and abuse at the hands of the state must stop".
Is it not a little difficult to reconcile the claims of these two with the harsh reality?
DANNY MICKLESON, Talhape
Waikato Times 3/8/19
RESPONSE TO WINSTON PETERS’ STORY
Regarding Winston Peters’ comments as reported on Stuff, Thursday July 30 re: Ihumatao.
Finally someone talking some sense regarding claims of racism and colonial damage.
All we hear these days from mostly Maori excitables are claims of racism, colonisation effects and so on.
There is not a country, culture, race or tribe in the world that hasn’t been colonised, invaded, overrun, enslaved or worse at some stage in history.
Yet there is only one of these that wallows in self pity and is always blaming someone - anyone - for their state of poverty, their high levels of incarceration, their high levels of violence especially to children
Sir Apirana Ngata (Ngati Porou) - who was an MP, a minister of the crown and represented New Zealand overseas is reputed to have said (in the late 1930s when social welfare was introduced) that "it would be the ruination of the Maori race".
In various written records his comments are summarised.
He warned about the destructive effect of welfare on Maori.
If only he could see what is happening today.
My mother praised the ten shillings that was distributed to everyone (or was it every family) at one Christmas in the 1930s.
It was a lot of money back then she said.
But Sir Apirana Ngata had much better long term vision than my mother he could see where it would all lead.
He could see the blame mentality that handouts would lead to and unfortunately he was right.
B BURKE, Hamilton
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HARSH REALITY
A number of people, including former government minister Tarlana Turla and Greens Party co-leader Marama Davidson, marched on Parliament the other day protesting at the way Maori children are being taken from their families by Orange Tamariki.
Turla seems very strong in her belief that these children are better off with their own whanau or at the very least "where their whakapapa lies".
Could Turia please explain to me how this helped (among many others) the Kahui twins?
It appears to me that rather than intervene and protect these helpless little babies, whanau closed ranks after the event and protected the killer. A murderer remains free to this day.
This appears to make a mockery of Davidson's statement that "the torture and abuse at the hands of the state must stop".
Is it not a little difficult to reconcile the claims of these two with the harsh reality?
DANNY MICKLESON, Talhape
Waikato Times 3/8/19
RESPONSE TO WINSTON PETERS’ STORY
Regarding Winston Peters’ comments as reported on Stuff, Thursday July 30 re: Ihumatao.
Finally someone talking some sense regarding claims of racism and colonial damage.
All we hear these days from mostly Maori excitables are claims of racism, colonisation effects and so on.
There is not a country, culture, race or tribe in the world that hasn’t been colonised, invaded, overrun, enslaved or worse at some stage in history.
Yet there is only one of these that wallows in self pity and is always blaming someone - anyone - for their state of poverty, their high levels of incarceration, their high levels of violence especially to children
Sir Apirana Ngata (Ngati Porou) - who was an MP, a minister of the crown and represented New Zealand overseas is reputed to have said (in the late 1930s when social welfare was introduced) that "it would be the ruination of the Maori race".
In various written records his comments are summarised.
He warned about the destructive effect of welfare on Maori.
If only he could see what is happening today.
My mother praised the ten shillings that was distributed to everyone (or was it every family) at one Christmas in the 1930s.
It was a lot of money back then she said.
But Sir Apirana Ngata had much better long term vision than my mother he could see where it would all lead.
He could see the blame mentality that handouts would lead to and unfortunately he was right.
B BURKE, Hamilton
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers