Parliament in New Zealand descended into tribal, Stone Age grunting on behalf of so-called indigenous rights. This is a preview of what our country (America) could look like if we keep apologizing for our history.
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'Russia Today' gave the story full coverage including the video. The write-up is restrained but one wonders what smart-alec comments were being made in the editor's office.
https://www.rt.com/news/607653-new-zealand-haka-parliament/
Surely Russia would be saying that "the useful idiots are doing very well Comrade"?
Brilliant analysis of what Matt Walsh so accurately described as an “absurd debasing spectacle”.
As was the commentator who loosely quoted Thomas Sowell: “Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.”
The novelty of constantly apologising, paying settlements & seeing what was a lovely cultural tradition like the Haka, turned into a commercial spectacle, has well & truly worn off, particularly since there has been no tangible outcome for our hard earned money, except for the creation of a very rich, greedy radical Maori elite who have been living the good life at their expense of their own people.
And how is with all that money Maori are still overrepresented in all the wrong statistics?
Take child abuse & NZ’s appalling ‘roll of dishonour’. NZ children from all different ethnic backgrounds suffer abuse, maltreatment & either end up in State care or murdered or both, but Maori children suffer this fate more. Why? Because there has been no accountability, because governments & well meaning NZers have been motivated by misplaced colonial guilt into treating one group as special over others, to the point where our society can never hold them to account without fear of accusations of racism. It means that by being treated as special they don’t have to take personal responsibility for their choice to torture, fracture & murder their babies & worse, actually get to blame their horrific actions on everyone else.
This has gone on for decades. As they say the definition of insanity is ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’
It’s time for this insanity to stop.
Brilliant and succinct commentary on the problem with maori that exists in New Zealand today. Nails all the reasons why the maori led grievance Industry needs to be disabled and, in particular, why the Waitangi Tribunal should be wound up - immediately.
Steve Ellis
I'm pleased that the world now knows what can happen when you continually give in to people playing the victim card to gain power and money, because that's the real driver behind this.
Sadly, particularly with Luxon's reaction the the bill, I'm not sure that this is going to help solve the problem, we still have to sort this out ourselves.
I try to hold on to the belief that te Pate Maori do not represent all citizens who identify as Maori, but the visceral truth is that I cringe at the very mention of the M-word, and think with contempt of all - pakeha and Maori woke, who are demonstrating their ignorance and stupidity around the land.
Luxinda needs to give us a referendum and make te pati apologise for their ancestors killing the true indigenous people of nz like matt walsh said. He absolutely nailed it.
Send this article to Luxon, Peters, and Brownlee. Ask them why they are not doing the jobs that the voters elected them to do.
Great commentary by Matt Walsh, and great comments here.
Didn't see until now, sleep and also, the new news, of allowing airstrikes into Russia and the effects this could bring.
I've just read the Bob Jones article and am worried about my grammar, so I'm using extra commas, in case.
I did love the Jazz version of the dance, it really brought a lovely appeal to Rawiri's subtle but fluid movements, however, the Nancy Pelosi version, in reference to Hana's 'tearing of the bill', capturing Nancy's face singing the Haka too, I especially enjoyed!
Reading msm articles around the world, BBC for example, shows a one-sided pro-''Maori'' (all mixed actually) weight. Along the lines of the treaty is being rewritten and ''Maori'' being victims, losing rights. The Herald here this morning (Tuesday) has a short piece of Seymour's view in a sea of articles sympathetic in tone to the protest. The editorial, natually, backs the haka in parliament as cultural. Of course headlines are there for celebs such as Martin of Coldplay, backing ''indigenous'' rights . His comments show he understands nothing of the issue here, merely being emotionally on the ''right side''. None of the Maori on the protest would be here today if there had been no ''white'' migration as they are all part-white, most largely so (maybe some also other ethnic mixes). They are not victims of colonisation; they are the result of it. Through my cousin I have relatives who are part-Maori and sadly the younger ones have been subverted by Victoria Uni. There largely Scottish and Irish ancestry counts for nought. They are Maori (as if 100pc). This escalated under Ardern's govt. BTW the BBC is quite white-guilt laden on all things these days and all its articles seem to be cringe.
That's a shame about your cousins Paul, a cousin of my Mother's once decried that they were treated differently by the family for being part Maori which simply was not true, growing up in1930's and 40's had it's challenges. At a young age my Mother lost her Mother to tuberculosis. It was a world wide epidemic then.
People like Martin from Cold Play should not start espousing their ignorant comments and the BBC and the Herald take only one side. It is willful and a blatant choice not wishing to know anything of the stories of the other side. These are great stories of trials and tribulations.
People forget the hardships which these colonists, they were pioneers, had to endure, life was not easy. The journey they took was long and treacherous too. These pioneers came in good faith.
One of my great great grandfathers was one of 500, and the only European to be involved with building Rangiātea Church in Otaki. Te Rauparaha, who, coincidentally in this case, wrote the Haka Kamate Kamate, was a notorious chief, but as he grew older became more philosophical, and was quite a wise pollitician. Although he did not become a Christian he felt this church would be a way forward and good for the people of Ngati Poneke. He obviously liked my great great grandfather and honoured him by giving him the name Huia, which of course was a treasured bird for it's feathers which the chiefs wore on their head. He was a skilled carpenter and crafted the windows. He was a small and thin man, indeed weathered, but, had great fortitude.
Now on the other hand, my other great great grandfather, was a gentleman, a business man, and made his money as a reputable pork butcher. Te Rauparaha liked this man too! For he was able to procure large amounts of pork meat and was also given a gift by Te Rauparaha. This happened to be a Waka Huia, a carved box, in which you put these feathers into, owned by chiefs only.
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