15-10-2024, 12:02 PM
I like affirmative action for Maori, and yes I know it gets abused. But the reality is there is so much racist crap built into our community and the way it is run that the few attempts to lift that burden and begin to level the playing field seem completely justified to me.
I never saw it before I had a Maori daughter, and was forced to see the world through her eyes. To experience the silent racism as I walked alongside her. It is real, it hurts, and it costs us all in ways we just do not pay enough attention to.
In my case, it means I lost my daughter to Australia. My daughter, my grandchildren, and they lost me. It's a hell of a price to pay. The funny (peculiar) thing about it is Oz is even more racist that we are. Just not towards Maori.
I never saw it before I had a Maori daughter, and was forced to see the world through her eyes. To experience the silent racism as I walked alongside her. It is real, it hurts, and it costs us all in ways we just do not pay enough attention to.
In my case, it means I lost my daughter to Australia. My daughter, my grandchildren, and they lost me. It's a hell of a price to pay. The funny (peculiar) thing about it is Oz is even more racist that we are. Just not towards Maori.