Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 16, 2019 15:20:26 GMT 12
MORGAN GODFERY UNWRAPPED
Bruce Moon writes > In the “Guardian” for 5th November 2019, Morgan Godfery, of part Maori and Samoan descent but who would pass anywhere for an European, uses his privileged position as a public commentator to make false and dubious statements about our country, New Zealand.
First be it noted that owing to an irrational quirk of our legislation, anybody with the slightest trace of Maori ancestry may claim to be one of them, potentially benefiting from the very considerable body of legislation giving them benefits unavailable to the rest of us. Moreover, of the 16.5% of the population who claim to be Maori, it is most unlikely that a single one is of full-blooded Maori ancestry. Their readiness to associate and assimilate with the pioneers from Britain for the great benefits that brought is obvious.
Moreover, despite Godfery’s disparaging claim, Maori are not, by any reasonable definition of the word, indigenous to New Zealand. They arrived from Polynesia only a few hundred years before Europeans arrived, the names of their canoes are well-known and their speech so similar to that of Tahitians to have been mutually intelligible. There is a wealth of archaeological evidence of truly indigenous people here in their arrival, ruthlessly hunted for cannibal feasts by the invading Maoris, but rigorously suppressed at official levels.
Godfery, like most of the same officialdom, grossly overstates the importance of the so-called “Treaty of Waitangi”, a semi-formal document signed by 540 chiefs by which they agreed to cede to the Queen what sovereignty they possessed in return for her protection and the same rights as the people of England. His statement that it, as the “country’s founding document reaffirms Māori political power (in the treaty’s own words it reaffirms our 'tino rangatiratanga'”, is a blatant falsehood albeit one continually repeated by racists of his ilk.
The words “maori” (whose spelling Godfery manipulates) and “tino rangatiratanga” appear once only each in it and then not even in the same clause. By clause, i.e. “article” “third” all “tangata maori”, i.e. “maori people” were given the same rights as the people of England – a magnificent gift especially for their many slaves who lived in abject conditions. By article second, possession (tino rangatiratanga) of property was guaranteed to “tangata katoa o Nu Tireni”, that is “all the people of New Zealand” and “all” means “all”. Godfery’s claim that it “reaffirms Māori political power” which he expects migrants “to recognise and respect” is blatant and gross politicking based on false premises which all should recognize for what it is and no more.
Bruce Moon writes > In the “Guardian” for 5th November 2019, Morgan Godfery, of part Maori and Samoan descent but who would pass anywhere for an European, uses his privileged position as a public commentator to make false and dubious statements about our country, New Zealand.
First be it noted that owing to an irrational quirk of our legislation, anybody with the slightest trace of Maori ancestry may claim to be one of them, potentially benefiting from the very considerable body of legislation giving them benefits unavailable to the rest of us. Moreover, of the 16.5% of the population who claim to be Maori, it is most unlikely that a single one is of full-blooded Maori ancestry. Their readiness to associate and assimilate with the pioneers from Britain for the great benefits that brought is obvious.
Moreover, despite Godfery’s disparaging claim, Maori are not, by any reasonable definition of the word, indigenous to New Zealand. They arrived from Polynesia only a few hundred years before Europeans arrived, the names of their canoes are well-known and their speech so similar to that of Tahitians to have been mutually intelligible. There is a wealth of archaeological evidence of truly indigenous people here in their arrival, ruthlessly hunted for cannibal feasts by the invading Maoris, but rigorously suppressed at official levels.
Godfery, like most of the same officialdom, grossly overstates the importance of the so-called “Treaty of Waitangi”, a semi-formal document signed by 540 chiefs by which they agreed to cede to the Queen what sovereignty they possessed in return for her protection and the same rights as the people of England. His statement that it, as the “country’s founding document reaffirms Māori political power (in the treaty’s own words it reaffirms our 'tino rangatiratanga'”, is a blatant falsehood albeit one continually repeated by racists of his ilk.
The words “maori” (whose spelling Godfery manipulates) and “tino rangatiratanga” appear once only each in it and then not even in the same clause. By clause, i.e. “article” “third” all “tangata maori”, i.e. “maori people” were given the same rights as the people of England – a magnificent gift especially for their many slaves who lived in abject conditions. By article second, possession (tino rangatiratanga) of property was guaranteed to “tangata katoa o Nu Tireni”, that is “all the people of New Zealand” and “all” means “all”. Godfery’s claim that it “reaffirms Māori political power” which he expects migrants “to recognise and respect” is blatant and gross politicking based on false premises which all should recognize for what it is and no more.