To Mr. Bell. Telling the truth is not being ‘shallow' as you claim. Your belief in the settlement process is false either deliberately or through ignorance. A large number of books and articles have been written over the last 30 years exposing the fraud you seem to believe in. One of the latest is 'When Two Cultures Meet” by Dr. John Robinson. Read it and educate yourself. Even sympathetic past members of the Waitangi Tribunal have condemned claimants for the falsifications and invented history that saturate the very submissions and transcripts you champion as fact. If you believe this unjust and dishonest rort is somehow creating your ‘Society To Be Proud Of' then I don't think I am the one in blinkers.
It's nice that your granddaughter has a degree thanks to us. I have a young disabled special needs son years behind his peers who cannot get a cent in funding for assistance in his basic education because resources that used to look after you and me now only look after you. In addition my taxes have also been spent on funding your granddaughter through the Treaty scam. She should have looked after her higher education herself like the rest of us have to. But never mind, keep stealing from us, trampling us and laughing all the way to the bank. According to you the cap fits, regardless eh! You must feel so pleased and proud.
I would ask you, Mr. Kapai and Mr Bidois among others to cease using the appalling ‘P' word when referring to people not of your ethnic background. This (Maori) word is insulting both in literal translation and figurative meaning and needs to be left in the 19th century where it belonged. It further reflects poorly on you and your attitudes that you continue to use such a racially offensive term today.
Mike Kuipers von Lande
Mt. Maunganui
5 comments
Pakeha is not offensive
Posted on 01-11-2012 16:26 | By Peter Dey
the word Pakeha is now a perfectly normal word to describe non-Maori New Zealanders. People who take offence at it are taking offence where none is being given.
Mimi Pohara
Posted on 02-11-2012 11:01 | By Mimi Pohara
Kia ora Mike Your surname suggests you and Richard Prince have more than just a pakeha persperctive when it comes to trying to counter punch the korero of those who rely on whjakapapa handed down from generation to generation rather than some johnny come lately historian Called Dr Roberston, wasnt he the pakeha who found his lost family on a deserted island? Surely you and Richard Prince didnt emigrate here from a land where racial equality was just a dream some short years ago? That was until Mr nelson Mandela walked the long road to freedom and in doing so freed up the thinking of the whole world. Ti hei mauri ora Madiba
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Posted on 04-11-2012 11:56 | By Bell.J
Hi Mike, My belief in the settlement is based on fact. The fact that in the process of pakeha taking control of NZ, the indigenous population was for decades decimated. If you have a better idea of how to compensate Maori for these losses please announce them to the world. We wait with bated breath. I sympathise with your position as caregiver to your son, but to somehow link that to Maori settlements is disengenous to say the least. I too pay taxes as do most Maori that I know. Are they used in a way I would prefer? Not always but thats life. You've got it wrong again Mike. I'm not
Pākehā insulting how?
Posted on 05-11-2012 17:55 | By kclifton
I am wondering what the literal translation and figurative meaning is for the Māori word 'Pākehā' that Mr Kuipers von Lande believes to be true? There is nothing insulting about the word Pākehā which means nothing more than a New Zealander of European descent. Any other meaning given is false and mis-leading.
Ignorance is bliss
Posted on 09-11-2012 11:06 | By Mike Kuipers von Lande
To Mr. Bell. Settlers did not decimate Maori as you claim. Maori did that to themselves. They were so adept at wiping out each other that their more intelligent chiefs pleaded with the British to assert order and give them protection from their fellows as the genocide was taking them well on the way to extinction. Missionaries who for decades had tried to stem the bloodflow also lobbied for this. Please study the genuine history and not the made up nonsense of the last 30 years. To Mimi Pohara: Once again you show your lack of knowledge. I am not South African nor have I ever been. I am a born and bred New Zealand Native. Your prejudices are showing. To the rest of you: The term Pakeha means "White skinned Foreigner, stranger" This is an utterly inaccurate and offensive term to be using today for many reasons, firstly because in pretending that NZ is made of of "Maori and Pakeha" it ignores all the other ethnic races which demeans and belittles them, it is inherently offensive to call someone a foreigner and stranger in their own land, it ignores interbreeding which means that there are no trueblood Maori anymore and it is also not what white NZers call ourselves. It is no better than the 'N' word that used to describe darker skinned people years ago. I'm sure you would find that offensive if used today and I am sure that you would not be pleased if everyone coined a new word for 'Maori' and started calling everyone who wanted to identify as Maori by this word. Stop your racist attitudes and start treating people as your equals.
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