Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 24, 2019 4:55:39 GMT 12
Otago Daily Times 24/7/19
TREATY
IN replying to Maurice Prendergast (letters, 22.7.19), Kate Wilson speaks of giving ‘‘meaning to the Treaty of Waitangi, to work with manawhenua as a partner’’, but the Treaty says absolutely nothing about ‘‘partnership’’.
It is a modern absurdity, no matter how many people may claim that it is not.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dominion Post 24/7/19
NO SYSTEMATIC RACISM
Prejudice exists in all societies but it is nonsense to say that there is "systematic racism"(July 20).
There are no instructions to Oranga Tamariki (Ministry for Children) caregivers to treat Maori children with any less care than those of other racial backgrounds.
Many of the decision-makers are Maori.
Without knowing the full background to any case brought before the organisation no-one can make a judgment.
I certainly would not like the job of making decisions for any of these vulnerable children's future.
If Maori are over-represented in "child removal" cases there are reasons other than institutional or systematic racism.
KENNETH WARD, Woburn
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
TREATY
IN replying to Maurice Prendergast (letters, 22.7.19), Kate Wilson speaks of giving ‘‘meaning to the Treaty of Waitangi, to work with manawhenua as a partner’’, but the Treaty says absolutely nothing about ‘‘partnership’’.
It is a modern absurdity, no matter how many people may claim that it is not.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dominion Post 24/7/19
NO SYSTEMATIC RACISM
Prejudice exists in all societies but it is nonsense to say that there is "systematic racism"(July 20).
There are no instructions to Oranga Tamariki (Ministry for Children) caregivers to treat Maori children with any less care than those of other racial backgrounds.
Many of the decision-makers are Maori.
Without knowing the full background to any case brought before the organisation no-one can make a judgment.
I certainly would not like the job of making decisions for any of these vulnerable children's future.
If Maori are over-represented in "child removal" cases there are reasons other than institutional or systematic racism.
KENNETH WARD, Woburn
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers