Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 2, 2016 12:13:19 GMT 12
Wanganui Chronicle 2/2/16
IN GLASS HOUSES
Steve Baron — “Bigots do Maori a disservice” ( January 21):
Well, the bigots being defined as fanatics, racists, sectarians and zealots are clearly on the pro-Maori brigade side of things, comprising separatists, treatyists, apologists — call them what you will — and yes, they certainly do Maori a disservice.
So, according to Mr Baron, any Kiwi that criticises rorts and rip-offs and race-based privileges is usually uninformed, closed-minded, uneducated and of an older generation. Well, I think apart from the age thing, that more correctly describes Mr Baron and his ilk!
Maori were never Treaty [of Waitangi] partners, there were never any treaty principles — those Maori chiefs who signed the treaty in 1840 and later attended the 1860 Kohimaramara Conference knew full well they were ceding sovereignty in return for British citizenship, etc.
Describing Maori uprisings as land wars is wrong, as they were essentially tribal rebellions.
Separatists, please remain cloistered in your little cliques and leave the real world to real people with real solutions free from cultural, PC garbage. Incidentally, Maori are now technically a statutory race created by t he 1982 Maori Affair s Amendment Act — perhaps more correctly called part-Maori because no full-blooded or 50 per centers exist, so in effect everyone in New Zealand is non-Maori — problem solved.
R P
Matapihi
IN GLASS HOUSES
Steve Baron — “Bigots do Maori a disservice” ( January 21):
Well, the bigots being defined as fanatics, racists, sectarians and zealots are clearly on the pro-Maori brigade side of things, comprising separatists, treatyists, apologists — call them what you will — and yes, they certainly do Maori a disservice.
So, according to Mr Baron, any Kiwi that criticises rorts and rip-offs and race-based privileges is usually uninformed, closed-minded, uneducated and of an older generation. Well, I think apart from the age thing, that more correctly describes Mr Baron and his ilk!
Maori were never Treaty [of Waitangi] partners, there were never any treaty principles — those Maori chiefs who signed the treaty in 1840 and later attended the 1860 Kohimaramara Conference knew full well they were ceding sovereignty in return for British citizenship, etc.
Describing Maori uprisings as land wars is wrong, as they were essentially tribal rebellions.
Separatists, please remain cloistered in your little cliques and leave the real world to real people with real solutions free from cultural, PC garbage. Incidentally, Maori are now technically a statutory race created by t he 1982 Maori Affair s Amendment Act — perhaps more correctly called part-Maori because no full-blooded or 50 per centers exist, so in effect everyone in New Zealand is non-Maori — problem solved.
R P
Matapihi