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Wanganui Chronicle 15/6/16
CALL FOR EQUALITY
Something is rotten in this society. My call for equality [racially] focused, "unequivocally anti-Maori rants". This is a typical response in the New Zealand of today, un-pleasantness designed to drive me away and silence a contrary opinion. Such attacks prevent a debate on our common history and the direction our country will take in the future.
As a student studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, United States) in 1963-66, I lived in a country racked by the civil rights and anti-war movements, which came together in the actions of Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali, both of whom fought against racism and against the terrible war in Vietnam. We all came to believe deeply in the priority of equality as a guiding principle for social and national life.
It is vitally important that those who believe we should be one people should speak up. One day we may then achieve a level of polite disagreement where different opinions are voiced without fear of abuse, when those who oppose racism are not labelled racist in the media.
JOHN ROBINSON
Wellington
CALL FOR EQUALITY
Something is rotten in this society. My call for equality [racially] focused, "unequivocally anti-Maori rants". This is a typical response in the New Zealand of today, un-pleasantness designed to drive me away and silence a contrary opinion. Such attacks prevent a debate on our common history and the direction our country will take in the future.
As a student studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, United States) in 1963-66, I lived in a country racked by the civil rights and anti-war movements, which came together in the actions of Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali, both of whom fought against racism and against the terrible war in Vietnam. We all came to believe deeply in the priority of equality as a guiding principle for social and national life.
It is vitally important that those who believe we should be one people should speak up. One day we may then achieve a level of polite disagreement where different opinions are voiced without fear of abuse, when those who oppose racism are not labelled racist in the media.
JOHN ROBINSON
Wellington