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“So…would you say you’re culturally ignorant?”

April9

the most annoying face in the world

Boiling with annoyance and anger I raised my hand, not to embarrass or ridicule Colin (he did that all by himself) but to honour my ancestors and to stand up for authentic race relations in New Zealand. “So…would you say you’re culturally ignorant?” Pausing for a second the Conservative Party leader chuckled before giving me a plethora of nonsense before ending with, “I think we’re all culturally ignorant.”

The public meeting was situated around the current political issue of marriage, though the night only seemed to be worthwhile when the nitty gritty pōwhiri comments Colin earlier made were raised. That’s the thing about politics, once you say something you can’t take it back. Colin defended a Danish politician who had recently visited NZ. I have nothing wrong with people coming to NZ but it was her blatantly racist comments that pissed me off (as well as many other New Zealander’s and Danish people). Well, last night Colin openly defended the far right-wing Marie Krarup, and her comments that the pōwhiri  is an “uncivilized” ritual, and that the marae is a “grotesque” mark of multicultural worship. Two things, not only did Colin continue to dig the racist whole deeper and deeper last night by giving his own chuckling thoughts on Māori, but he continued to amaze me how openly exclusive and narrow minded he was for someone believed to be the defender of NZ Christendom and traditional values.

I just couldn’t believe the verbal diarrhea spilling out of the ‘well-respected’ leader’s mouth. Even his view on the economy and the environment was hardly arguable. I just can’t see why he has a following.

Offended in every which way, my wife and I left wondering WTF LOL, it was so funny and offensive at the same time. Talking to another lady who raised a valid question around Colin’s racist remarks, it was cool to know that not all the room thought I was just some random ‘savage’ wanting to pull out the patu on the Conservative party.

I’d like to end with this statement, ‘NZ is a wonderful place, and though racism is a big issue, I don’t think it is rampant outside of the few fundamentalists and far-right conservatives. NZ is a wonderful place, let’s put a stop to culturally ignorant people being empowered to make national decisions’. Rather let’s look at the bigger picture and come 2014 ask ourselves, “does this person really know what they’re talking about, and does this person actually practice what they preach?”

Act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.

T.K Lewis

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KahuMartin Luther King Jr. once said that “the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the appalling silence of the so-called good people.”

I don’t see myself as a ‘good person’ nor would I register myself as a so-called ‘bad person’, yet one thing I know for certain is that everyone should have the liberty and dignity to be treated humanly. Social justice is an existential fundamental of what it means to live in community. Whether it be New Zealand’s atrocious record of child abuse or the epidemic of suicide (500 people per year commit suicide, that’s 6 times higher than NZ’s annual road fatalities) or even the blatant lie of having the best race relations in the world; New Zealand is a country in which deep societal issues remain blanketed by the norms of individualism and the generational loop of miseducation. I am only a person, writing for the advocacy of authentic and politically meaningful social justice in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Kaituhi Lewis