Apartheid in New Zealand
Maori
Maori whining about protection & equality
But you don’t mind using the benefits of Northern hemisphere technology, do you…….benefits you use in every single daily aspect of your lives.
It’s a fact that ‘maori’ have actually invented/discovered absolutely nothing technological.
They have been instrumental in finding new processes and solutions to various scientific and academic problems and deserve kudos for that, but never invented anything.
No-one else here seems to mind sharing, in fact everyone except ‘maori’ sees the population of NZ as one people – New Zealanders, an ability which seems to have escaped ‘maori’. ….
And then read why the TOW was written and agreed upon in the first place; it was to protect you all from yourselves, from raiding, from being sold by various tribes into slavery, from being cannibalised by neighbours, protection from various other nations who coveted these isles who would have given you a damn site worse treatment than you ever got from the British.
No-one cares who was here first, all most people want to do is simply discover the truth of who else has been here in the long history of these isles.
All ‘maori’ have done since gaining protection and equality is whinge about it, twist NZ history, claim everything in sight, change the meaning of words to suit, and squeeze as much money from the country as possible to the point where now our hospitals, health and housing are in jeopardy due to the lack of available government funding.
And the ‘squeezed’ money doesn’t even trickle down to the average ‘maori’ either – it stays in the hands of tribal elite. Well done….
By Paddy John
Dr Brian McDonnell says one standard of citizenship for all
A New Zealand academic of Maori, Irish and French descent believes the pendulum has swung too far in redressing Maori grievances.
Dr Brian McDonnell, a senior lecturer in film studies at Massey University, says New Zealand’s “polite middle ground has become too fawning and the government too accommodating to the shrill cries of extremists”.
He told NBR ONLINE:
“Maori people have certainly been marginalised in the past and there are specific wrongs to be righted, but it’s time to draw back to the centre.
“In an effort to be nice you can be seen as a soft touch, so who can blame Maori groups for asking for the stars when the government and the Auckland Council seem ready to grant power and funds while ignoring democratic processes.
“It has been the move to enshrine the Treaty of Waitangi in a written or more formalised constitution that I feel should be the ‘bridge too far’ for well-meaning, reasonable, moderate people, both Maori and Pakeha, to say ‘enough’.
“I would certainly place myself among their number and for me it is not Maori bashing to say so.
“I am part-Maori and I want success for all Maori people, but I think dependence on a Treaty-burdened constitution will not help Maori, as its advocates claim.”
Dr McDonnell believes such a constitution will trap Maori in a “suffocating self-definition as in need of special pleading and a special status”.
“True equality comes with being treated as responsible adults who shoulder responsibilities as well as crying out for rights.
Kapiti News Article 22/6/16
From the Kapiti News 22/6/16
(All New Zealanders should read this)
In his June 15 letter, entitled “Confusing”, Fred Te Maro made a number of errors that require correction. He labelled me as being anti Maori. This is completely untrue, I am most definitely pro Maori. I am standing up for the ones who have no voice, the ones I grew up with in Cannons Creek and are forgotten in the money scramble they call Treaty settlements.
But I am anti Maori leaders. They have done nothing for their people except create an atmosphere of entitlement based around false interpretations of our history and Fred’s letter is the perfect example of it. He starts out by painting a dark picture of colonisation and calls his people victims, yet they have come from the Stone Age to the space age in a little over 150 years. They have a preferential status in New Zealand and more than equal opportunity to be whatever they want to be. Something unheard of before colonisation.
However, Fred tells his people this is what it feels like to be a victim. He then states that because initially only individual land owners could vote, this dispossessed Maori of their land. However, voting was something no Maori was able to do before colonisation. He forgot to mention or doesn’t know that greedy chiefs had sold over two thirds of New Zealand’s land mass to speculators before 1840. It was the colonisers land courts which nullified these deeds and returned the land to the chiefs, incidentally without them having to give back the purchase price.
Post the Treaty the chiefs promptly set about selling it all over again. Only about four percent of the land in New Zealand was confiscated because of acts of war, most of which was soon returned. Maori chiefs sold the rest. He forgot to mention that in 1853 European men and all women who didn’t own land could not vote either, not just Maori. He also forgot to mention that in 1867 all Maori men aged 21 or over were eligible to vote, Maori men achieved universal suffrage 12 years before European men. I don’t hear European men crying out as victims though.
Wi Parata was claiming back land gifted to the Anglican Church, not the Crown. He was using the Treaty as a means to try to get it back and quite rightly he was told the Treaty was a legal nullity, which it remains today. The Treaty has no independent legal status and the government are not legally bound to do any-thing because of the Treaty. It chooses to, usually in return for Maori votes, this is scandalous.
Fred has the opportunity to read the same history as me, be positive and encourage his people to be proud of their achievements. He can project himself as a role model, particularly for the poor that need his obvious standing in the community. Alas, he prefers to look at the dark side, project it through our papers and hold his hand out because of the apparent “many breaches”, thinking that this will help his people. Statistics show it hasn’t in the past, it won’t in the future and his people will continue to be the major part our underclass if their leaders do not change their dark and greedy sense of entitlement.
Until they do I stand as an advocate for positive Maori who are proud of their achievements, don’t have their hand out and love their country, many of whom are my friends and family.
ANDY OAKLEY
Raumati Beach
Do Pakeha really abuse as many children as Maori do?
The other day an article popped up on my Facebook Wall promoting research done in 2012 by Raema Merchant, a social work lecturer at the Eastern Institute of Technology. She stated that Maori are unfairly branded as the face of child abuse in New Zealand, yet in less than one minute of reading, I saw the flaw in her argument.
Raema Merchant concluded in her masters thesis at Massey University that around half of the children killed in New Zealand died at the hands of Pakeha, yet despite that, Pakeha child abuse is largely ignored leading to the issue being perceived as a Maori problem. She states:
Pakeha kill just as many children as Maori do, despite Maori being the “face of abuse” in the media, according to a researcher.
“Where are they getting it from? Child abuse is not a cultural issue.”
Okay so Pakeha supposedly make up 50% of this horrid statistic and yet Maori are the face of child abuse in New Zealand. She then asked for the data to prove that this is mostly a Maori issue?
The answer is very simple and yet was ignored completely in her thesis. She states that the ethnicity of those convicted of assaulting children are as follows:
- Maori 48%,
- European 28%,
- Pacific Islander 19%.
Thus if you add all non-Maori (which we will call Pakeha), you arrive at approximately Maori 50% non-Maori 50%. I am sure you can see where this going as I will be making an obvious point that many would have thought about by now despite not being researchers themselves. This so-called researcher ignores the total population figures of these groups. Let’s look at total population stats for children or to be precise, under 14s. It breaks down as follows:
- 21% Maori,
- 58% European,
- 11% Pacific Islander,
- 9% Asian.
So non-Maori children make up around 78% of the population of under 14s. Yet around half of the abuse figures are from Maori. If half the victims are Maori but they comprise 21% of the population, then the outcome is Maori are 4.8 times that of Europeans to abuse their kids. For Pacific Islanders that is 3.4 times. The comparative rate of all three, is Maori 4.8, Pacific Islander 1.4, & European 1.0.
Some then argue that it is still not a Maori issue, rather a poverty issue. Yes it is true that poverty is a huge factor. But the truth is again staring us in the face. Pacific Islanders face poverty as much as Maori, yet there is still a huge difference in child abuse figures between both these Polynesian populations. To repeat, ‘Maori abuse children 3.4 times more than Pacific Islanders’, yet both face the same levels of poverty and both are Polynesian, thus proving that there is a cultural problem with Maori.
While Raema Merchant may have set out to try and dispel the notion that Maori shouldn’t be the face of child abuse in New Zealand, but all she has really done is forced some to look into the claims and reveal the true statistics. The result is an opposite conclusion to what this researcher set out to prove. Statistics do not lie, child abuse is still mostly a Maori issue and something not to be ignored. Of course this is still an issue for all people groups in New Zealand, but percentage wise, child abuse by Maori is extremely high compared to other people groups and it is no surprise that they have become the face of child abuse. Solutions to this problem need to take this into consideration. It doesn’t help if we all pretend otherwise for the sake of political correctness and idealism. Sometimes we have to face the cold hard facts if we want to tackle an issue properly.
Sources:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6555668/Perceptions-clash-with-facts-over-abuse