Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 29, 2020 16:29:27 GMT 12
FIGHTING RACISM ACROSS THE POLITICAL DIVIDE - ANGER AND POSITIVE ACTION – John Robinson
After having researched the Maori social situation for many years, I fell afoul of the demand for political correctness within the growing grievance industry and set out to understand what had actually happened.
A simple analysis of the Maori population in the nineteenth century (which was turned down by the NZ Population Review as it dared to suggest that Maori benefitted from the Treaty of Waitangi) led on to a series of books on early Maori history and culture.
When I recently read the accurate and perceptive Dom Post article by Karl du Fresne, “Racial division in New Zealand is ‘permanently built in’” (May 28 2020), I decided to write a short note of appreciation. I commented that, to me, racism implies simply (a) belief in race, which is explicit in New Zealand law (“A Maori is a member of the Maori race”) and (b) differentiation by race, which is made clear in such a great number of New Zealand laws and statutes. So New Zealand is fundamentally racist with separation by race built on a total reinvention of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The ready point of contact was the NZ Centre for Political Research; Muriel Newman passed on the note and invited me to send an article that could be a Guest Commentary.
I am afraid that my first effort broke one of my own rules, to understand the point of view of an ally who holds very many different political beliefs, and to focus on common ground. As a socialist, my political views differ from many in NZPCR newsletters.
One important point that can be salvaged from that draft is that the separatist movement and associated grievance industry have thrived for many decades under both Labour and National governments. I would emphasise the shift of the previous National government with their decision to reverse previous policy and bow to its confidence and supply partner in Parliament, the Maori Party, with an agreement to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which espouses different rights similar to those of the pigs in Animal farm) despite the previous Labour government’s warnings that the document was fundamentally incompatible with New Zealand’s constitutional and legal systems, together with the many absurd settlements by Treaty Minister, lawyer Christopher Finlayson, who had previously acted for Ngai Tahu in their Treaty claim, fighting against the government through a series of high-profile court battles. Muriel Newman points to the way that the current Labour government has aggressively and officially embraced a “partnership” agenda, contradicting the equal citizenship of Article 3 of the Treaty of Waitangi. I share the disgust on the resulting race-based funding and organisation for the post-Covid recovery.
We know that our views on many things differ, but there is considerable agreement here. We have a similar desire to try to halt the march of the Maori elite to sovereignty, by exposing what is going on. Here is a section of my first draft where we agree.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/06/john-robinson-fighting-racism-across.html
After having researched the Maori social situation for many years, I fell afoul of the demand for political correctness within the growing grievance industry and set out to understand what had actually happened.
A simple analysis of the Maori population in the nineteenth century (which was turned down by the NZ Population Review as it dared to suggest that Maori benefitted from the Treaty of Waitangi) led on to a series of books on early Maori history and culture.
When I recently read the accurate and perceptive Dom Post article by Karl du Fresne, “Racial division in New Zealand is ‘permanently built in’” (May 28 2020), I decided to write a short note of appreciation. I commented that, to me, racism implies simply (a) belief in race, which is explicit in New Zealand law (“A Maori is a member of the Maori race”) and (b) differentiation by race, which is made clear in such a great number of New Zealand laws and statutes. So New Zealand is fundamentally racist with separation by race built on a total reinvention of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The ready point of contact was the NZ Centre for Political Research; Muriel Newman passed on the note and invited me to send an article that could be a Guest Commentary.
I am afraid that my first effort broke one of my own rules, to understand the point of view of an ally who holds very many different political beliefs, and to focus on common ground. As a socialist, my political views differ from many in NZPCR newsletters.
One important point that can be salvaged from that draft is that the separatist movement and associated grievance industry have thrived for many decades under both Labour and National governments. I would emphasise the shift of the previous National government with their decision to reverse previous policy and bow to its confidence and supply partner in Parliament, the Maori Party, with an agreement to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which espouses different rights similar to those of the pigs in Animal farm) despite the previous Labour government’s warnings that the document was fundamentally incompatible with New Zealand’s constitutional and legal systems, together with the many absurd settlements by Treaty Minister, lawyer Christopher Finlayson, who had previously acted for Ngai Tahu in their Treaty claim, fighting against the government through a series of high-profile court battles. Muriel Newman points to the way that the current Labour government has aggressively and officially embraced a “partnership” agenda, contradicting the equal citizenship of Article 3 of the Treaty of Waitangi. I share the disgust on the resulting race-based funding and organisation for the post-Covid recovery.
We know that our views on many things differ, but there is considerable agreement here. We have a similar desire to try to halt the march of the Maori elite to sovereignty, by exposing what is going on. Here is a section of my first draft where we agree.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/06/john-robinson-fighting-racism-across.html