Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 12, 2021 9:56:34 GMT 12
Derek Mackie: IS THE TIDE TURNING?
His article is a scathing indictment on the government’s separatist policy, contained in the He Puapua report, to divide NZ by race, creating two classes of citizens - Maori and the vast majority. The first class, in every sense of the word, gets power, rights, justice, wealth, land, water and, ultimately, a veto over every decision the vast majority tries to make. Everyone else has to bite their tongue and say thank you.
And it’s all driven, apparently, from some deep sense of shame and guilt at the supposedly terrible injustices visited on Maori since colonisation by Britain. It conveniently overlooks the atrocious practices and injustices that Maori were visiting upon each other prior to colonisation and ignores the considerable benefits Maori have gained since 1840. In other words, it’s a one-eyed, one-way version of NZ history which paints Maori as living in harmony with each other and the environment only to have it all snatched away by the evil white man.
Some people really do believe the tale I’ve just told above. They are typically non-Maori, left-wing politicians, academics and journalists who have been suckered into swallowing the sob story that a tiny minority of extreme Maori activists have been cultivating for decades. These gullible, eager-to-please individuals are ripe for the picking by savvy opportunists who see huge benefits for doing nothing more than claiming to be indigenous and hard done by……..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/09/derek-mackie-is-tide-turning.html
His article is a scathing indictment on the government’s separatist policy, contained in the He Puapua report, to divide NZ by race, creating two classes of citizens - Maori and the vast majority. The first class, in every sense of the word, gets power, rights, justice, wealth, land, water and, ultimately, a veto over every decision the vast majority tries to make. Everyone else has to bite their tongue and say thank you.
And it’s all driven, apparently, from some deep sense of shame and guilt at the supposedly terrible injustices visited on Maori since colonisation by Britain. It conveniently overlooks the atrocious practices and injustices that Maori were visiting upon each other prior to colonisation and ignores the considerable benefits Maori have gained since 1840. In other words, it’s a one-eyed, one-way version of NZ history which paints Maori as living in harmony with each other and the environment only to have it all snatched away by the evil white man.
Some people really do believe the tale I’ve just told above. They are typically non-Maori, left-wing politicians, academics and journalists who have been suckered into swallowing the sob story that a tiny minority of extreme Maori activists have been cultivating for decades. These gullible, eager-to-please individuals are ripe for the picking by savvy opportunists who see huge benefits for doing nothing more than claiming to be indigenous and hard done by……..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/09/derek-mackie-is-tide-turning.html