RE: ‘Howls of the housing crisis' (The Weekend Sun).

Perhaps R Goodall could rationally ‘prove' that I am the racist he claims?

In my lifetime, there has been no event, process, opportunity or institution that Maori have been denied access to. But decades of parliamentary leverage has created a plethora of race-based legislative initiatives that give Maori special rights. There are some 22 projects and initiatives that I, as a European, cannot participate in.

The United Nations convention concludes: 'superiority on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and there is no justification for racial discrimination anywhere, in theory or in practice”.

I would be very happy to debate the words, as written in Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi as signed by more than 500 Ragatira) with Goodall. That document is not racist, it proposed equality for all in the First Article.

MJ Anderson, Pyes Pa.