‘A house united is strong, but a house divided will fall.'
I raise this issue because the letter of L Te Waiti Wright (The Weekend Sun, February 5, pg 27) is so right!
They write: 'Dame Whina Cooper strongly opposed Separatism. She advocated unity, marriage, and a respect between races.”
I believe the team of five million have achieved this! We are inter-wed, inter-bred, inter-cultural, (everything we use and do, every day, is our culture).
We work together, we play together and share all the benefits of our wonderful country, together.
Those who want to separate us are 100 years too late! Thank you L Te Waiti Wright, your wisdom and strength is an example to all.
Ken Evans, Tauranga.
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Maori and Pakeha are not one people
Posted on 27-02-2021 16:06 | By Peter Dey
The suggestion that we are one people of one culture is not what The Treaty of Waitangi pledged, and whatever Governor Hobson may have said his pledge was the Treaty that he signed. That was an agreement that we are two people Maori and Pakeha united in one nation, with Maori having their own separate identity, which does not divide us at all. It is not actually clear what opponents of separatism are opposed to.
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