Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 2, 2016 7:34:04 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 2/7/16
TWISTING FACTS
It appears even after 152 years there are part-Maori intent on trying to cause racial disharmony by twisting historical facts. P Brooks and Peter Dey can take comfort by the fact that two settlements of $38 million each have been given to local iwi for alleged land loss.
Ms Brooks bemoans the fact that Governor Grey confiscated some land. Governor Grey warned Maori that if they rebelled against the Crown, breaking the covenants of the Treaty of Waitangi, land would be confiscated.
In fact only 4.5 per cent of the total land mass was confiscated and much was returned. Maori sold hundreds of tracts of their land to settlers, sometimes the same piece several times over. (Abridged)
M B
Tauranga
Gisborne Herald 1/7/16
ENOUGH HATRED ALREADY . . .
Re: Flag painting seen as racist and an insult, June 28 response to letter.
I wish to thank the museum’s director for her good explanation of why the referendum-selected NZ flag was displayed upside down and at half-mast beween two Maori flags held high in a painting at the Tairawhiti Museum.
However, while she would “always defend both an artist’s freedom of expression, and a visitor’s right of interpretation”, I don’t think tourists and visitors see it that way.
Our visitors from Europe are considering settling here and were very offended. They see this as a problem they must consider. The world is full of hatred between races and they want to escape it.
They wanted to visit Lake Waikaremoana, an icon of our district, yet local Maori were considering banning visitors from going there.
They were astounded to learn that the GDC buildings were going to be knocked down and rebuilt at a cost of $14 million or more. They commented that this would cost those who took that decision dearly.
But getting back to the display of what we considered to be racist paintings. Our visitors said that in their homeland France, at the world-acclaimed museum the Louvre — where my cousin’s mother was a curator — visitors could see some of the greatest paintings in the world, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. When they saw the defaced NZ flag painting in our museum they said that not long ago this insult was treason, punishable by death! The other painting of a Maori woman with her legs apart, giving birth, was really poor taste.
Our track record is not good in Tairawhiti. To be attractive to good immigrants who bring wealth and expertise, we need to show real quality at our museum.
Funding for this sort of offensive display by “Creative NZ and the Waitangi Day Commemorations Fund” is highly questionable. Why should taxpayers support unsavoury and racist “freedom of expression” paintings? It will be interesting what the Human Rights Commission comes up with regarding our race relations complaint.
A J
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 1/7/16
STUNNED BY VERBAL INVECTIVE
When viewing ‘The Nation' on TV3 on June 26, I was stunned to hear Marama Fox's verbal invective towards Dr Axel Gietz, representing Imperial Tobacco, who was brought from the United Kingdom to debate the tobacco industries' view.
The Maori Party co-leaders' views were confrontational, accusative and verbally abusive to Dr Gietz.
Ms Fox lays the blame for all negative statistics applied to Maori at the door of the tobacco industry and the European colonialists whilst she personally participates in, and owns the very best of the positive aspects the European culture has brought to New Zealand.
Her bad manners in ‘throwing her toys from the cot' and leaving the interview with a string of cultural abuse, conveyed to the viewers the value of her tribalised input.
It was pertinent Lisa Owen, the interviewer, and political commentator Paddy Gower established that TV 3 did not support personal attacks.
MJ A
Pyes Pa
TWISTING FACTS
It appears even after 152 years there are part-Maori intent on trying to cause racial disharmony by twisting historical facts. P Brooks and Peter Dey can take comfort by the fact that two settlements of $38 million each have been given to local iwi for alleged land loss.
Ms Brooks bemoans the fact that Governor Grey confiscated some land. Governor Grey warned Maori that if they rebelled against the Crown, breaking the covenants of the Treaty of Waitangi, land would be confiscated.
In fact only 4.5 per cent of the total land mass was confiscated and much was returned. Maori sold hundreds of tracts of their land to settlers, sometimes the same piece several times over. (Abridged)
M B
Tauranga
Gisborne Herald 1/7/16
ENOUGH HATRED ALREADY . . .
Re: Flag painting seen as racist and an insult, June 28 response to letter.
I wish to thank the museum’s director for her good explanation of why the referendum-selected NZ flag was displayed upside down and at half-mast beween two Maori flags held high in a painting at the Tairawhiti Museum.
However, while she would “always defend both an artist’s freedom of expression, and a visitor’s right of interpretation”, I don’t think tourists and visitors see it that way.
Our visitors from Europe are considering settling here and were very offended. They see this as a problem they must consider. The world is full of hatred between races and they want to escape it.
They wanted to visit Lake Waikaremoana, an icon of our district, yet local Maori were considering banning visitors from going there.
They were astounded to learn that the GDC buildings were going to be knocked down and rebuilt at a cost of $14 million or more. They commented that this would cost those who took that decision dearly.
But getting back to the display of what we considered to be racist paintings. Our visitors said that in their homeland France, at the world-acclaimed museum the Louvre — where my cousin’s mother was a curator — visitors could see some of the greatest paintings in the world, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. When they saw the defaced NZ flag painting in our museum they said that not long ago this insult was treason, punishable by death! The other painting of a Maori woman with her legs apart, giving birth, was really poor taste.
Our track record is not good in Tairawhiti. To be attractive to good immigrants who bring wealth and expertise, we need to show real quality at our museum.
Funding for this sort of offensive display by “Creative NZ and the Waitangi Day Commemorations Fund” is highly questionable. Why should taxpayers support unsavoury and racist “freedom of expression” paintings? It will be interesting what the Human Rights Commission comes up with regarding our race relations complaint.
A J
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 1/7/16
STUNNED BY VERBAL INVECTIVE
When viewing ‘The Nation' on TV3 on June 26, I was stunned to hear Marama Fox's verbal invective towards Dr Axel Gietz, representing Imperial Tobacco, who was brought from the United Kingdom to debate the tobacco industries' view.
The Maori Party co-leaders' views were confrontational, accusative and verbally abusive to Dr Gietz.
Ms Fox lays the blame for all negative statistics applied to Maori at the door of the tobacco industry and the European colonialists whilst she personally participates in, and owns the very best of the positive aspects the European culture has brought to New Zealand.
Her bad manners in ‘throwing her toys from the cot' and leaving the interview with a string of cultural abuse, conveyed to the viewers the value of her tribalised input.
It was pertinent Lisa Owen, the interviewer, and political commentator Paddy Gower established that TV 3 did not support personal attacks.
MJ A
Pyes Pa