I am tired of this collective guilt foisted on us by Chris Findlayson and the Maori party. I do not feel responsible for events which happened 100-150 years ago, nor should anybody.
The way I see it, the Maori have two arms and legs, and brains, just like any other ethnic group and can make their way in life just like the rest of us, without the exceptional privileges and magnificent payouts. The fact that they get these, and the failure rate is still high, is an indictment, and their demands for more are unreasonable and counter-productive to our country's advancement. The billions they have received have come from the taxes of people who have worked and who would far rather see their hard-earned dollars going into our ailing health and education systems, where all Kiwi's benefit.
Our national standards rating has gone from number 3 to 33 in the last 50 years and it's overdue to ask why? It is time to stop this apartheid nonsense, abolish the titles of European and Maori and act as united New Zealanders , after all we all sailed here in different boats and at different times, but are all in the same boat now, so pull together to get us back on course!

Bonnie Leonard, Otumoetai.