Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 29, 2016 7:29:27 GMT 12
Dominion Post 29/6/16
QUESTIONS ON MOKO
Out of all the uproar over little Moko's death, there are so many unaired questions:
1. Why and how was he and his sister placed in the care of these mentally ill-equipped couple in the first place? Who placed them there?
2. Apparently Moko's sister told their mother he was being assaulted. Why did she not check on him or ask his father or another family member to check on Moko?
3. Why was Moko's father not looking after him or even visiting him?
A large number of Maori have voiced their concern over child abuse, but somehow it has a hollow ring when statistics show that of all the children in CYF care, 60 per cent are Maori, from the country's Maori population of 15 per cent. Methinks they do protest too much.
M B
Tauranga
Gisborne Herald 28/6/16
FLAG PAINTING SEEN AS RACIST AND AN INSULT
I was extremely disappointed when I visited the Tairawhiti Museum with tourists. At the entranceway was an exhibition of a large painting of four flags — two of which were Maori flags and the NZ referendum-selected flag (Union Jack and Southern Cross stars). The NZ flag was between the Maori flags and was displayed upside down and at half mast.
How insulting is that to all the people who live in this land, which is a pretty good example of harmony of races and living together?
Many people looked at this new painting and were disgusted. One said this sort of display of racism would not be seen anywhere else in this country.
Many immigrants to this country, like my parents who came from France, believed these stupid sorts of things were not part of New Zealand culture.
This a real example of how to divide this country. Shame to those who let it be.
This race relations complaint has been forwarded to the Human Rights Commission.
A J
The Nelson Mail 28/6/16
JUDGING PAST
Sometimes when history is the way historians want it written, the ledger has to be straightened.
When judging the ‘‘past’’ many critics do so using ‘‘2016 values’’.
The Waitangi Tribunal does this frequently.
In 2003 the British Government restated: ‘‘It is a fundamental principal of international law that events have to be judged against the law as it stood at the time when they occurred’’.
When John Mitchell ( June 20) referred to the 1873 comments of the Ngati Kahungunu tribes concerning alcohol he omitted the Wanganui tribes 1874 petition to the New Zealand Parliament: ‘‘liquor impoverishes us, our children are not born healthy because the parents drink to excess, and the child suffers; it muddles men’s brains; grog turns intelligent men of the Maori race into fools.
‘‘We are also liable to accidents, disease.’’
In 1884 Ngati Maniapoto tribes had the government declare the entire King Country a ‘‘dry area’’.
Today some maraes remain alcohol free.
J.M. L
Nelson
QUESTIONS ON MOKO
Out of all the uproar over little Moko's death, there are so many unaired questions:
1. Why and how was he and his sister placed in the care of these mentally ill-equipped couple in the first place? Who placed them there?
2. Apparently Moko's sister told their mother he was being assaulted. Why did she not check on him or ask his father or another family member to check on Moko?
3. Why was Moko's father not looking after him or even visiting him?
A large number of Maori have voiced their concern over child abuse, but somehow it has a hollow ring when statistics show that of all the children in CYF care, 60 per cent are Maori, from the country's Maori population of 15 per cent. Methinks they do protest too much.
M B
Tauranga
Gisborne Herald 28/6/16
FLAG PAINTING SEEN AS RACIST AND AN INSULT
I was extremely disappointed when I visited the Tairawhiti Museum with tourists. At the entranceway was an exhibition of a large painting of four flags — two of which were Maori flags and the NZ referendum-selected flag (Union Jack and Southern Cross stars). The NZ flag was between the Maori flags and was displayed upside down and at half mast.
How insulting is that to all the people who live in this land, which is a pretty good example of harmony of races and living together?
Many people looked at this new painting and were disgusted. One said this sort of display of racism would not be seen anywhere else in this country.
Many immigrants to this country, like my parents who came from France, believed these stupid sorts of things were not part of New Zealand culture.
This a real example of how to divide this country. Shame to those who let it be.
This race relations complaint has been forwarded to the Human Rights Commission.
A J
The Nelson Mail 28/6/16
JUDGING PAST
Sometimes when history is the way historians want it written, the ledger has to be straightened.
When judging the ‘‘past’’ many critics do so using ‘‘2016 values’’.
The Waitangi Tribunal does this frequently.
In 2003 the British Government restated: ‘‘It is a fundamental principal of international law that events have to be judged against the law as it stood at the time when they occurred’’.
When John Mitchell ( June 20) referred to the 1873 comments of the Ngati Kahungunu tribes concerning alcohol he omitted the Wanganui tribes 1874 petition to the New Zealand Parliament: ‘‘liquor impoverishes us, our children are not born healthy because the parents drink to excess, and the child suffers; it muddles men’s brains; grog turns intelligent men of the Maori race into fools.
‘‘We are also liable to accidents, disease.’’
In 1884 Ngati Maniapoto tribes had the government declare the entire King Country a ‘‘dry area’’.
Today some maraes remain alcohol free.
J.M. L
Nelson