So at last we get a Race Relations Commissioner in Susan Devoy, former world champion sportswoman, who can relate to most New Zealanders and to whom most New Zealanders can relate, replacing the former left-wing Marxist activist, Joris De Bres who by wearing many hats in a great variety of organisations and with the support of his left wing academic fellow travellers was appointed to the Race Relations position.
There will be weeping and wailing among Maori radicals, Treaty revisionists and many Greens. Already her appointment has been criticised by Maori Party member, Te Ururoa Flavell, Ngapuhi leader David Rankin and Mana Party President Annette Sykes for having the temerity to publicly suggest that the Waitangi Day celebration was a racially divisive failure and should be replaced.
What would they call it? They have lost their less than objective champion, Joris De Bres, who in his term in office used the U.N to try to pressure the Government into implementing WAI 262 giving Maori ownership of all local flora and fauna and convinced the U.N. that structural discrimination by government agencies had led to Maori being over represented in the criminal justice system and caused their poor outcomes in health, welfare, education and employment.
He also compared the white colonisation of New Zealand to violations of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Some Race Conciliator.

Bryan Johnson, Omokoroa.