Kingitanga hui

[Olive]

I cannot get past the effrontery of the descendants of the colonists seeking to rewrite the Treaty that founded the nation they now seek to lead. The unbridled arrogance of it just stuns me.

They have learned nothing from past errors.

It's the blatant denial of the land theft that continues to astonish me.   No matter how many times colonisation is spelt out Seymour and his disciples continue to talk about "equality", as if every citizen of Aotearoa is starting from an equal position.  And those hardy souls who keep on spelling it out get derided as repetitive and fanatical.

It makes me feel sick, but we must carry on holding the line and not get worn down.