In The Weekend Sun November 9 there was a letter from Peter Dey and in it he wrote:
'Most so called privileges are not privileges at all but measures against discrimination.”
On the same page we had a letter from Wendy Galloway telling how her son had come home from school being upset he had Maori blood.
She wrote: 'Reason being all those with Maori blood were asked to go to a special assembly where information on scholarships, grants, etc were offered to Maori students. He went to race relations and said this was racial but of course was ignored.”
Later in the same letter at Auckland Medical University he again learnt that he was required to treat Maori patients differently to anyone else.
But the fascinating bit of this letter was the last sentence in the first paragraph. 'Amazingly not many Maori took up the grants or scholarships.”
I await Peter Dey's reply to the above in eager anticipation.
R McGuinness, Tauranga.
4 comments
EDUCATION?
Posted on 06-12-2012 21:31 | By PLONKER
Maori receive double the study allowance from maori affairs and never have to pay it back.
privileged maori
Posted on 07-12-2012 07:23 | By Captain Sensible
For the past week I have been trying to find out any race based privileges only available to non-maori, that excludes maori. None found! I don't have the time to type out all the race based privileges only available to Maori that exclude non-maori. All us non-Maori are racially discriminated against every day and I don't like it. Apartheid NZ ....here we come.
Posted on 09-12-2012 14:30 | By Sagitarius22
What shallow lives your readers lead, hell bent on proving racism is rife in NZ. They try to discredit one side or the other to justify their own racist opinion? Have they looked in a mirror lately? This countries has bigger problems than trying to prove who is the most priveleged. What a load of crap that we are discriminated against based on race. Don't ever claim to be speaking for me you racist antagonistic fools.
@ Sagitarius22
Posted on 12-12-2012 08:36 | By Captain Sensible
Easy for you to say if you are one of those privileged racists receiving those race based privileges. I am racially discriminated against daily because I am not a maori. You may dismiss that as not important but these race based privileges are unsustainable as we head on a one way trip to apartheid. I consider this a serious problem in NZ, as do many people who are not elligible for these race based handouts.
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