OPINION
Phil Green
Obviously the next best thing to being obsessed with whether Jacinda will or won’t visit Sandringham, we’re all exercised about the latest drip-fed scandal of the three/five/ALL waters imbroglio.
And so we should, as it’s the greatest scandal to erupt on these quiet, peace-loving, integrated, racially harmonious shores since the post-war 1950s and 60s when the swinging Maori left their districts, moved to town and started marrying non-Maori folk.
As a consequence of this mutual lovefest, my family and broader family are blessed with brown faces, and our country’s been better off since that occurred, where now you can’t move around a NZ supermarket without a mixed family knocking into your trolley. New Zild is a mixed-race country.
And that should be where it ends, on top of the Christmas tree with a nice big ribbon on top, presenting to the rest of the world what harmonious race relations look like. Come have a look UN, and see how a progressive country deals with colonisation without needing a NONDRIP treaty to tell us how to make love.
But dark clouds are gathering, where one group, also of mixed race, perceives that they can improve on the past despite their mixed heritage and make things better. Well, better for their bank balance and the ideological bank balance where somehow, despite them being better off than most, they envisage they can reverse the tide of statistics which don’t go well for Maori.
The way they’ll do this is to hammer home the guilt trip that despite all our material success, punching above our weight and being the best at so many things, we’re somehow deficient when it comes to the statistics of the poorest strata of society, whom regrettably, happen to be Maori.
Ironically, it’ll be the poorer Maori who will most likely resist the change and tell the Elite Maori to take a jump. This was most apparent during the covid vaccination process, where despite $300+ million being thrown at Maori health agencies, they still failed to convince the stalwart that it was a good idea. There weren’t too many photo opportunities in the Northland area for vaccination if you’ll recall.
As you’ll also recall, there isn’t one single government agency that is turning the tide of the statistics. Mental health, housing, benefits, a separate health system and Job Seeker to name a few. Millions and perhaps billions paid out to help the downtrodden. But of course, this is a racist system that doesn’t care.
Is there any reason why few Maori corporations, of which there are many since the treaty settlements, aren’t assisting their brethren like an NGO or the Salvation Army continue to do on a daily basis?
To be fair, I do know personally of a Maori agency doing their best to help their kith and kin. I’m not saying this is bad; in fact I prefer small groups helping rather than big government. That’s the way it should be.
It does however appear that we’ve already disappeared down the rabbit hole of co-governance, which really means tribal rule.
To all those who’ve got your moko, and for years those Pakeha who’ve got their cool Maori tats and worn bone carvings, tribal rule will just be the next inevitable step in the process. I’m one of those and even voted for the Maori party when the beloved Tariana and Pita were custodians.
I think it’s going to happen, it’s happening already and has been for years. We talk about the sheeple and needing to wake up. Well, this story’s been unfolding since John Key and even as far back as Bastion Point and Dame Whina Cooper.
The elites want it, and if it’s all overturned with the election of a conservative government, then I’ll wake up as in “Dallas”, declaring the whole last season was just a dream.