It seems that Tasha Tukaokao (17-8-12) is very much against racism in the form of singling out one race of people from another. That may seem fine, until one listens to the greedy racist claims that demand one ‘race' of people to be singled out from the others for very special race based privileges. This ‘chosen' race ( seemingly that of Ms Tukaokao) demand water rights, exclusive seafood quotas and allowances, their very own rugby team, and claims for just about anything you can think of from the air waves to the DNA of native plants, all of which racially discriminate against me and all other non maori New Zealanders. So who are the racists? This group demanding these race based privileges or the group opposing these racist privileges? Seems obvious to me as I do not want to be a second class citizen in my own country. Until a Govt has the backbone to stop this racist corruption of our democracy, we are on the way to becoming an apartheid. It seems Ms Tukaokao would like that because she is amongst the favoured race. Shame on you Ms Tukaokao.
Derek Gordon, Tauranga.