John Key’s early legacy to the ethnic mix trammelling up and down Auckland’s Queen Street, and clearly part of the National Party’s liberal globalist agenda, was the influx to New Zealand, from about 2010 onwards, of mainland Chinese. National’s closeness to the Chinese Communist Party shouldn’t be a surprise. Both are essentially godless, profit-driven operations, internationalist in view and dedicated to the worship of Mammon — which is raked through like muck in shady backroom meetings.
The very young and affluent members of this community of new arrivals could, for a time, be found driving their Ferraris up High Street, smoking vast quantities of Chunghwa cigarettes and talking loudly amongst themselves in Chinese. Norman Ng, a ‘first wave’ immigrant to New Zealand following Japan’s 1937 invasion of China and owner of the famed Norman Ng Building on Karangahape Road, complained about them in his 2014 interview with The New Zealand Herald. The Chinese community was “in a good place”, he said, “but recent generations have dampened the efforts of the earlier generations. … Mainly they are from northern China and they all speak Mandarin.”
From about 2016, as if right out of the United Nations’ copybook, the immigration mix appeared to change. Suddenly it was Indians everywhere, including vast and occasionally malevolent-looking gangs of youngsters. Ostensibly they were brought in to study at dodgy privately-run tertiary institutions in the upper CBD, but in reality they worked as commercial cleaners, drove taxis and manned petrol stations. This occurred while the ranks of New Zealand’s unemployed reclined at home watching music videos, smoking marijuana and ’twerking’.
It is important to note that in the left’s New World Order there are ‘Indians’ and then there are people from the Indian subcontinent. Indians in Britain (majority: Hindu) lost their victimhood status years ago, if they ever in fact had it, and have been socially mobile for decades. Indian Brits earn more, on average, than white Brits — and the same is possibly true here. The secret of their success is that their cultural values align very closely with the traditional values of their host country: married family life, the raising of children within wedlock, monogamy, restraint, and a high level of value placed upon education.
It’s for this reason that Indians aren’t really feted. British Foreign Secretary Priti Patel is reviled by the left for being a successful Conservative woman, and is satirised in The Guardian’s cartoons as a cow (note, she is Hindu) sporting devilish horns and a ring through her nose. The same cannot be said for Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims, who are much more highly prized in the West’s left-wing immigration racket, for the reason that they are statistically less prone to success than their Sikh and Hindu counterparts.
The reason for this is clear. Their cultural values tend to be misaligned with the traditional values of their host country, although very much aligned with the left’s ‘progressive’ paradigm, slanted as that is towards cannibalising the host country: polygamy, a high level of inequality between the sexes, a selective view of education which places some unusual emphases, censorship (especially in respect of ideas), and a separatist lifestyle forged through the competing political system of Islam.
The establishment of Islam in a Western nation causes major systemic disruption to established social patterns and norms, and it is precisely this type of interruption which the left wants. Miss Ardern loves Islam. She loves its separatism, she loves its determined sense of ‘otherness’, and the dependency which flows from it. And she expresses her ‘love’ by doing play school hijab dress-up at every opportunity.
Obviously our ‘India project’ hasn’t taken us far enough in the never-ending march towards multiculturalism, international social justice and equality, because in the past 18 months or so, ‘colourful’ Queen Street has been turning black. The new arrivals come in almost imperceptible, miniature waves. Unlike Britain’s Windrush generation, which came from the Caribbean by ship, our brand new citizens appear fresh from refugee facilities in places like Palmerston North.
Black is very ‘on trend’. Displays in inner-city shops use black fashion models, and in cosmetics stores it’s all about ‘black’ make-up. The Black Lives Matter protest at Aotea Square during lockdown was extremely well, if not illegally and somewhat unjustifiably, supported. Black culture seems to have us enthralled. ‘Black is a religion,’ screamed one white girl at the corresponding London rally, which was actually more of a state-supported riot.
With black lives now mattering so much to the controlling intelligentsia, and black migration becoming the next Great Leap Forward, it’s probably worth examining the culture of these new arrivals, and that of the Black Lives Matter movement which claims to represent them. The difficult point made by Douglas Murray in his book The Strange Death of Europe — and I say ‘difficult’ because it’s a sensitive subject and not easily said — is that not all aspects of migration are positive. Of course, there are some good things — not least the interesting ethnic food; although the only noteworthy gastronomic experience I have had in Africa is food poisoning. And there are undesirable consequences as well.
Auckland’s infrastructure is, to say the least, groaning under the weight of population growth. Everyone who comes here — many of whom are not wealthy and cannot afford to support themselves financially — needs to be housed and educated and transported about the place, and have their rubbish collected. And just as there are cultural ’sweet spots’, where outlooks converge, so too are there ‘cultural clashes’ where differing world views manifest themselves.
In the UK, more than 100,000 British women – and they are certainly ‘British’ by citizenship — have been afflicted by the practice of female genital mutilation, which is often euphemistically referred to by the acronym FGM, or otherwise as ‘female circumcision’. Unheard of in Britain before the 1970s, this disturbingly brutal practice is almost entirely the preserve of African Muslims. Anecdotally, cases are beginning to appear at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital. It’s a familiar pattern: a witch doctor back ‘home’ does the work, but it’s helpful to have a Western medical facility on hand as a safety net. Nobody is allowed to talk about it, and when, finally, the subject can be deferred no longer, the conversation must be about ‘understanding’ and ‘education’.
In the US, black conservatives are tearing their hair out at the ‘Afro-Caribbean’ culture of dependency being nurtured by the Democratic Party. More than 50 percent of black American children are born outside wedlock. A very high percentage are raised in single-parent homes or passed between meandering strangers engaged in ‘fluid relationships’. Drugs and black-on-black violence are not only commonplace, but celebrated in the general cultural output, including music. This cycle, which has been developing since the 1960s, has produced a vortex of angry men and women, ethnic ghettos, and hopelessness.
Blacks in the UK are also statistically less well-off and tend to be Labour voters. ‘Progressive’ policy around the promotion of single-parent families, alternative sexual lifestyles, drug culture and welfarism dovetails seamlessly into Labour’s thinking around blacks as ‘victims’ requiring ’special treatment’. Black politicians in the UK, such as Dianne Abbot, have begun distinguishing between the ‘needs’ of blacks and other ethnic minorities which are seen as ‘less deserving’ due to their more favourable socio-economic status. White British people and Jews, both of whom are ethnic minorities in London, never rate a mention.
Black Lives Matter is the organisation which is shaping up to represent the black ‘voice’ internationally. Yet it can be rather elusive. Brits seeking to ‘end racism’ donated over 1 million pounds in recent weeks, yet BLM in the UK doesn’t even have its own web site, and its organisers insist on anonymity. They do assure us they are “Black” however. “Not politically Black. Black and of the African and Caribbean diaspora.” Thank goodness for that! BLM also evades the responsibility of being a registered charity. Why? Because “a charity structure would not allow us … to do our political work in the ways we wish to do them [sic]”.
What, then, is this “political work”? The first item on its agenda may come as shock to some of its more genteel, latte-sipping, middle-class supporters, who thought they were doing their bit to make the world a fairer place. Rather than do that, BLM bluntly seeks to “dismantle capitalism”. Secondly, according to a recent article in The Spectator, BLM wants to close airports because: “climate change is racist”. “Black people are the first to die, not the first to fly,” it said on its Twitter feed. BLM is, in fact, the Green Party on acid.
Thirdly, BLM proposes to abolish all prisons, turning even the most violent repeat offenders out onto the streets. It’s a surprise that Andrew Little hasn’t become an ‘organiser’, but then he probably can’t, being white. BLM also wants to abolish the police.
Fourthly, BLM wants us to get rid of all international borders, which it says are “enforced by extreme violence”. Similarly, it says, unemployment is “violence”. Try telling that to Shane Jones’s nephews.
BLM also takes an interest in history and has a raft of suggestions to make about our collective past. The suffragettes worked – you’ve guessed it – “violently” to “advance White power”. Churchill was “staunchly racist” and big charities are racist “colonisers”.
I sincerely hope that these are not the values our recent black arrivals are bringing to Queen Street. But all does not bode well if – as it claims – BLM is their mouthpiece. Were I a member of that community I would decry BLM as being an organisation which did not speak for me. I also hope that ‘black issues’, as with all things Islamic, do not become a hobby horse for parties on the left in New Zealand seeking to increase their constituency.
Melbourne is further down the track than us in terms of having an African gang problem to contend with. Owing to its size, relative isolation and economic structure, New Zealand is not a particularly easy place for migrants of any kind to settle. Not everyone who arrives here ends up driving a new Mercedes and living in Remuera, and I hope our new citizens are able to find enough opportunity without seeking recourse to re-make the nation in their own image.
I want to live in a democratic and free Western country, and not one that resembles China. I don’t want to live in India, and I certainly don’t want our city to resemble an ethnic ghetto in Detroit or a shantytown in Senegal. We may not all agree with Black Lives Matter, but I hope, at least, that the identity and culture of the nation we belong to is something we can agree on.
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