Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 11, 2016 8:15:02 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 11/6/16
RACIAL TOLERANCE
Peter Dey (Letters, May 7) claims "A knee-jerk objection to Maori names is not, in my opinion, racial tolerance". Why then, Mr Dey, is a knee-jerk objection to European names, considered racial tolerance by you?
The vast majority of the New Zealand population are non-Maori (86 per cent), which surely, in a democracy such as ours, would mean 86 per cent of place names, would be non-Maori. This, in my opinion, would be true racial tolerance.
J H
Tauranga
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RACIAL TOLERANCE
Peter Dey (Letters, May 7) claims "A knee-jerk objection to Maori names is not, in my opinion, racial tolerance". Why then, Mr Dey, is a knee-jerk objection to European names, considered racial tolerance by you?
The vast majority of the New Zealand population are non-Maori (86 per cent), which surely, in a democracy such as ours, would mean 86 per cent of place names, would be non-Maori. This, in my opinion, would be true racial tolerance.
J H
Tauranga
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers