19-10-2022, 02:05 PM
Saw this last night; it was the first I've heard of this. How absolutely disgraceful that it was allowed to happen, & worse, continue for decades.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv...egregation
"Producer Reikura Kahi knows No Māori Allowed will be confronting for many viewers but believes it is a story that needs telling.
“It took a lot of strength, and a lot of talking to their whānau, to come to the realisation that this story is important and that it was important for them to finally find the strength to tell their story,” Kahi says, adding the women hadn’t even told their whānau much about what they had experienced.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv...egregation
"Producer Reikura Kahi knows No Māori Allowed will be confronting for many viewers but believes it is a story that needs telling.
The documentary turns the spotlight on Pukekohe and the South Auckland town’s history of racism and segregation.
It reveals that from 1920 until the early 1960s, Māori were barred from public toilets, segregated at the cinema and swimming baths, refused alcohol, haircuts and taxi rides, forced to stand for white bus passengers and barred from schools.
Kahi hopes the documentary sparks conversations – a lot of conversations – around the country.
“It took a lot of strength, and a lot of talking to their whānau, to come to the realisation that this story is important and that it was important for them to finally find the strength to tell their story,” Kahi says, adding the women hadn’t even told their whānau much about what they had experienced.
It is the story of growing up in a town where white supremacists were so strongly supported they were able to force the local council to allow segregation.
In 1926, the White New Zealand League was incorporated in Pukekohe and Kahi says the Ku Klux Klan was also active in South Auckland at the time.
Māori families were forced to live in dirt-floored shacks – with no running water or plumbing – on the edge of town, well away from European residents. Children, who regularly died from measles, diphtheria, whooping cough and tuberculosis, were buried in unmarked graves."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)