ACT pledge 'racist & inhumane'

[Kenj]

The racism that is rampant right through our society is from all the rules and benefits where a person declaring themselves to be Maori gets more than those who don't. Do we really feel that people who declare themselves to be Maori are somehow less capable than those who don't? Remembering that there are plenty of people of Maori ancestry who do not declare themselves to be Maori. That's the racism.

ACT is just trying to swing the balance back to a more sensible middle line where those who need help can get it without having to pull the race card. Where those who need help might actually get some of the millions of dollars that stay with the leaders that are given it and never end up in the hands of the people who actually need it.

Lawyers are people doing a job just like the rest us and whilst we can sit back and say that they should automatically deal with wrongs within the systems they work in, an individual has no more power than anyone else in a job where they know it's not right but can't do anything to fix it. Especially in today's environment where everything gets taken back to race, even when race has nothing to do with the problems. I have no problem accepting dken31's comment. It comes from someone at the coal face of experience.

Well thought through and well expressed thoughts.