Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 27, 2016 17:16:37 GMT 12
HERE'S MY RESPONSE TO YOUR OPINION PIECE ON TURE WHENUA.
While I wouldn’t (god forbid) presume to speak for the Minister of Treaty Settlements Christopher Finlayson, what I do know after working alongside him as a (former) National Party List MP, is that he consults and takes advice from a broad sector of Maori - predominantly Iwi affiliated. He has confidantes and access to tribal goings-on that the Labour Party Maori caucus is denied and therefore envies. Much of this is due to the 95 Treaty Settlements signed under his six year watch compared to Labours six in nine years. Ngai Tuhoe Settlement is a classic example of Finlayson honouring personal commitments to tribes and individuals…..
But political ideologists need to be reminded Maori are neither left nor right, socialist nor capitalist nor anything in between. These constructs aren’t ours they’re colonialist. What we are is Maori, indigenous, native…..
So Komrad, one last thought for you to ponder. Maori is not a class-system dreamt up by some old white male in Eastern, Western, Central Europe or where-ever-the-prussian Marx came from. We are tangatawhenua, mana whenua, native…..
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MTM0MzE.html
While I wouldn’t (god forbid) presume to speak for the Minister of Treaty Settlements Christopher Finlayson, what I do know after working alongside him as a (former) National Party List MP, is that he consults and takes advice from a broad sector of Maori - predominantly Iwi affiliated. He has confidantes and access to tribal goings-on that the Labour Party Maori caucus is denied and therefore envies. Much of this is due to the 95 Treaty Settlements signed under his six year watch compared to Labours six in nine years. Ngai Tuhoe Settlement is a classic example of Finlayson honouring personal commitments to tribes and individuals…..
But political ideologists need to be reminded Maori are neither left nor right, socialist nor capitalist nor anything in between. These constructs aren’t ours they’re colonialist. What we are is Maori, indigenous, native…..
So Komrad, one last thought for you to ponder. Maori is not a class-system dreamt up by some old white male in Eastern, Western, Central Europe or where-ever-the-prussian Marx came from. We are tangatawhenua, mana whenua, native…..
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MTM0MzE.html