Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 16, 2020 4:25:40 GMT 12
PAKEHA PROTEST SWAMPS MAORI NARRATIVES
A Māori filmmaker and storyteller says the stand-off over Ōwairaka-Mount Albert shows the need for Pākehā to come to terms with Māori aspirations.
He told Radio Waatea host Claudette Hauiti the Honour the Maunga protest seems to be like a throwback from the time where Māori concerns did not matter.
“That residual thing I am talking about is racism and bigotry and what the discussion about Ōwairaka is alerting us to as Māori is that we may have brought ourselves up to speed. We are going to have to drag the rest of the population up to speed with us and lot of them are still back in the dark ages where racism was normal,” he says......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjM0MjQ/Pakeha-protest-swamps-Maori-narratives
A Māori filmmaker and storyteller says the stand-off over Ōwairaka-Mount Albert shows the need for Pākehā to come to terms with Māori aspirations.
He told Radio Waatea host Claudette Hauiti the Honour the Maunga protest seems to be like a throwback from the time where Māori concerns did not matter.
“That residual thing I am talking about is racism and bigotry and what the discussion about Ōwairaka is alerting us to as Māori is that we may have brought ourselves up to speed. We are going to have to drag the rest of the population up to speed with us and lot of them are still back in the dark ages where racism was normal,” he says......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjM0MjQ/Pakeha-protest-swamps-Maori-narratives