Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 24, 2017 16:13:42 GMT 12
WESTERN BAY OF PLENTY COUNCIL PATRONIZING MAORI
A decision by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council two days ago to establish one or more Maori wards is patronizing nonsense, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today.
“What the decision implies is that Maori are somehow not quite capable of being elected to the council on their own merits, and have to have special assistance to make it,” Dr Brash said.
“There are 29 Maori Members of Parliament, only seven of them getting there in Maori electorates,” he said.
“The Deputy Leaders of both the National and Labour parties are Maori, as are the Leader and Deputy Leader of New Zealand First. They got there on their own merit, not because some paternalistic Pakeha gave them a preferred status,” he said.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1711/S00606/western-bay-of-plenty-council-patronizing-maori.htm
A decision by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council two days ago to establish one or more Maori wards is patronizing nonsense, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today.
“What the decision implies is that Maori are somehow not quite capable of being elected to the council on their own merits, and have to have special assistance to make it,” Dr Brash said.
“There are 29 Maori Members of Parliament, only seven of them getting there in Maori electorates,” he said.
“The Deputy Leaders of both the National and Labour parties are Maori, as are the Leader and Deputy Leader of New Zealand First. They got there on their own merit, not because some paternalistic Pakeha gave them a preferred status,” he said.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1711/S00606/western-bay-of-plenty-council-patronizing-maori.htm