Why aren’t the protesters who turned out in force to protest racial inequality by rejecting the 1981 Springbok tour filling the streets and protesting racial inequality here in 2021?
They were fired up about injustice to black South Africans back then and are now ominously silent about white New Zealander injustice happening right under their noses. Were they racist all along? Was their fight for equality only relevant in defence of black or brown skins? Anyone but white?
It is impossible to escape the te reo oozing from every media outlet as a greeting, a farewell or interspersed into the message, confusing the majority of listeners who don’t understand it.
The delivery is offensive, but the greater offence is the establishment of a racial hierarchy. Make no bones about it, this is segregation by stealth.
Most of us won’t come out and admit we find it offensive. Usually, we zip our mouths and say nothing. My excuse is that I am choosing not to offend Maori in pursuit of their cultural heritage. I applaud their efforts.
My problem is with pseudo-Maori forcing te reo into every aspect of our lives in a spurious fight against white supremacy. They are offensive.
The more woke and culturally sensitive, at the very least, attempt Maori greetings and farewells, particularly if the government mandates or rewards them. Which it does. Government employees are particularly susceptible to pseudo-Maorification.
You will recognise these outliers of Maori culture by a public demonstration of devotion to all things Maori – otherwise, what’s the point? But it is their choice and who am I to assume a craven motivation of financial reward or career advancement?
Embracing all things Maori is good for business. If you have been woefully ignorant of this fact you might consider public flagellation to right your wrongs.
In November last year, media giant Stuff woke up and commandeered their own headline, issuing a public apology for their portrayal of Maori to date which, in their words, was “blinkered and racist”.
The Preacher sums up Stuff nicely.
2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
Ecclesiastes 1:2-5
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3 What does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens to the place where it rises.
Our egocentric minds are not comfortable talking about our station in life, skin colour, wealth (or lack of it) or behaviour that doesn’t match those around us. In this regard, we are our own worst enemy.
But if verbalising personal values makes us uncomfortable, heaven forbid we should actually analyse values! The easier route more commonly travelled is to adopt the noble aspirations of equality and respect for others – irrespective of whether you actually believe or pursue them.
When we aren’t clear about our values we become prey to the values forced on us by manipulators with goals we would not otherwise choose.
The game of racial winners and losers has become mandatory and you are completely deluded if you think you can opt out of this game.
There is no escaping the assault of te reo and all things Maori in government, media, education, business, and even hospitals and transport.
If you don’t like what is going on and say nothing, you assume the default position of white supremacist; while speaking out against Maorification deems you racist. One position is equally as unattractive as the other. But fear not, there is an escape door.
It is impossible to defend the undefined position of wobbling around uncertain of your beliefs whereas certainty on your values is a place of strength that can be defended.
The more confident you are about your own values, the less vulnerable you are to assault.
But returning to the problem at hand: if all things Maori continues unchecked, where does it lead?
The answer can be found in the good old USA which gave us systemic racism through the Black Lives Matter movement.
When the concept of systemic racism was introduced here last year it was adopted by two very different groups of people.
The first group comprised of Maori activists using it to achieve Maori sovereignty. The second group were the naïve do-gooders happy to finally attach themselves to a platform more sturdy than their flimsy, ill-considered values noted above.
You can forget about the do-gooders because their feel-good behaviour has no influence on our future. The group destroying fairness and equality who are behind racial segregation are the activists in pursuit of Maori sovereignty. Want to know where they are taking us?
The USA is one step ahead: The BLM movement re-introduced racism through institutionalised segregation.
Just like here, activists in the USA work across most areas but the field providing easy pickings, and the first fruits of their labour, is education.
Ivy League Columbia University now hosts six graduation events classified by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and income level.
“…graduation ceremonies for Native, Asian, “Latinx” and Black students taking place for Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies and Barnard College at the end of April. Another dubbed “FLI Graduation” is for “first generation and/or low-income community.” The school also hosts a “Lavender” graduation for the “LGBTIAQ+ community.”
Fox News
Is this the future you choose? Do you want segregation based on skin colour or circumstance of birth? Do you want a return to full-blown apartheid?
We must establish our personal values and reject the unwanted values foisted upon us. If we allow segregation by stealth we will be taken full circle back to apartheid.
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