Rawiri Waititi's facebook post is unacceptable

[C_T_Russell]

Gross as it may be it appears to be entirely factual.  References to coloniser/colonising probably aren't helpful to the cause, but far worse stuff has been posted online...  As for posting this as an MP, well he is an MP representing Maori and indigenous interests...

Such as cannibalism and he seems proud of it.

I do not remember being taught about Captain Cook being killed (or eaten) when they were teaching me about his wondrous exploits in primary school...

Me neither, its something I only heard about in later years.

I would refer everyone back to source publications such as Cook's diaries or those of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. Or any other eyewitness accounts of the first explorers and colonisers here. You get a feel for how it actually was and what kind of lives people had.

There were great wrongs on both sides when you look back from where and who we are today. What should be important is moving forward and ensuring that everyone has the best life they can. Instead it's all excuses, anger and growing racism.

Exactly, neither party is innocent or has a clean track record, but western colonisers are seen as the "evil" ones, yet were able to teach peace to the tribes, there is alot of benefits received, time to move on from past wrongs and get on.