Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 24, 2019 5:34:50 GMT 12
Dom Post 24/6/19
CARTOON OFFENSIVE
I didn't think I could read anything in the Dominion Post as offensive as the stories around white supremacists, but the June 21 so-called cartoon, titled "Stolen Across Time" really hits the mark.
The inference that Pakeha have been taking Maori children from their mothers since colonial time, in something akin to the "stolen generation in Australia", is a shocking attempt to rewrite New Zealand history that has no basis whatsoever.
It is a gross insult to the heritage of every New Zealander of European descent in the country and absolutely repugnant.
If the cartoon is meant as a dig at Oranga Tamariki, just remember New Zealand has the highest rate of child abuse in the OECD so the question we really need to be asking is how many Nia Glassies do we need?
GRAHAM DICK, Masterton
The Press 24/6/19
CARTOON
I puzzled over Sharon Murdoch’s ‘Whenua’ Cartoon (June 21) for some time, where James Cook appears to be kidnapping a Maori child from a distraught mother.
Surely this was history reinvented? The caption ‘Stolen across Time’ did not help either. It seemed to imply a second wave of colonists were continuously stealing the children of the first?
Still puzzled, I checked my understanding of whenua, but that shed no light either.
Then it dawned on me … it was simply a misprint.
The image should have been on the following page, along with Rosemary McLeod’s satirical piece ‘‘It’s tough to be a bloke’’.
DONALD REID, Leeston
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
Click image to enlarge
CARTOON OFFENSIVE
I didn't think I could read anything in the Dominion Post as offensive as the stories around white supremacists, but the June 21 so-called cartoon, titled "Stolen Across Time" really hits the mark.
The inference that Pakeha have been taking Maori children from their mothers since colonial time, in something akin to the "stolen generation in Australia", is a shocking attempt to rewrite New Zealand history that has no basis whatsoever.
It is a gross insult to the heritage of every New Zealander of European descent in the country and absolutely repugnant.
If the cartoon is meant as a dig at Oranga Tamariki, just remember New Zealand has the highest rate of child abuse in the OECD so the question we really need to be asking is how many Nia Glassies do we need?
GRAHAM DICK, Masterton
The Press 24/6/19
CARTOON
I puzzled over Sharon Murdoch’s ‘Whenua’ Cartoon (June 21) for some time, where James Cook appears to be kidnapping a Maori child from a distraught mother.
Surely this was history reinvented? The caption ‘Stolen across Time’ did not help either. It seemed to imply a second wave of colonists were continuously stealing the children of the first?
Still puzzled, I checked my understanding of whenua, but that shed no light either.
Then it dawned on me … it was simply a misprint.
The image should have been on the following page, along with Rosemary McLeod’s satirical piece ‘‘It’s tough to be a bloke’’.
DONALD REID, Leeston
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
Click image to enlarge
