I just read this in a main stream publication
Responses below Italics – Dissent, division and racism in New Zealand
statements **STAND DOWN Kaipara District Council MAYOR CRAIG JEPSON**
Mayor Craig Jepson SHUT DOWN efforts to say a karakia to start the Kaipara District Councils first council meeting.
MĀORI CULTURAL EXPRESSION is GUARANTEED under the Treaty of Waitangi.
Local Government are REQUIRED to uphold Treaty of Waitangi principles in their spaces and decision-making.
BANNING KARAKIA is a BREACH of the Treaty of Waitangi.
BANNING KARAKIA is RACIST.
MĀORI are the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE of AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND and WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.
Mayor Craig Jepson should be REMOVED FROM OFFICE. Mayor Craig Jepson should STAND DOWN.
Māori CANNOT and SHOULD NOT accept RACISM DISGUISED AS DEMOCRACY from a MAYOR.
The Mayor “stands by his decision to ban karakia”. MĀORI STAND BY OUR RIGHT TO BE MĀORI.
MĀORI CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT ACCEPT RACISM FROM A MAYOR.
Aotearoa New Zealand is an ethnically diverse country with many religions – or not – and we extend a warm welcome and much aroha to you all. However, Māori SHOULD NOT be considered alongside these many different ethnicities and religions celebrated in Aotearoa New Zealand
Why?
Because MĀORI are INDIGENOUS to this land. MĀORI are the TANGATA WHENUA of AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND.
Mayor Craig Jepson should be REMOVED FROM OFFICE. Mayor Craig Jepson should STAND DOWN.
MĀORI WILL NOT BE SILENCED.
Māori DO NOT give you the power to silence our karakia Mayor Jepson!
MĀORI WILL NOT ACCEPT RACISM FROM A MAYOR.
Māori DO NOT accept your racism disguised as democracy Mayor Jepson!
Is this another case of self-interested minority attempting to re write history and cause division in a country as diverse as New Zealand. They appear to me to be extremely divisive and racist. Thats why they accuse others of this. There are many false statements made now to enable a minority to achieve gain and power. The Māori were immigrants like all the rest of us. So, it’s time to forget all this. The treaty has been honoured, even though after signing the Māori themselves broke the treaty by waging war against the queen Victoria, Yes, the confiscations from the land wars were unjust. To a large degree some form of restitution has been made, but a lot of the silent majority are tired by this constant rhetoric from agitators to turn this country apartheid through Māori sovereignty comments and oppression of real free speech under the banner of racisms.
Its looking to me to be Māori racism. I object to being labelled a Pakeha derogatory Māori statement
Look up the word indigenous as the Māori are certainly not indigenous to New Zealand. The Moa were indigenous creatures unfortunately made extinct after extensive hunting after humans arrived. They were extinct before Europeans settled. Weren’t the Morori first human settlers here. Didn’t the Māori chase the Moriori from NZ and massacre many. They arrived before Māori
Maybe it’s time to review the treaty and declare NZ a United republic. We are one race of Kiwis. Stop this apartheid which is being pushed on us by minority groups. Take a vote on sovereignty
Lets unite and make a new Waitangi treaty, joining all races as one and equal.
Its time New Zealand is united as one people with no group being better worse or treated differently than the other. A national language should be chosen instead of more Polynesian announcement leads in Māori on mainstream TV. I do resent that. The Māori channels and cultural channels are sufficient to represent a second or third language. Mainstream should be English if that is the chosen language. News announcements should be fairly reported without bias in favour of one or more topical assumptions. This promotes fake news.
Referendum . Also The English language is being changed by stealth, for a 15 Percent population group. A statement was made in this article that. Dissent, division and racism in New Zealand.
Appointments in public life, either as news readers or any other public figure should not be given on race grounds or culture in the interests of fair play. Too many servants in this small country have their heads in the feeding trough. Enough said. Get a backbone lets move forward NZ
