21-03-2025, 08:46 PM
(21-03-2025, 04:48 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I look forward to it Jan! Love a good opportunity to argue, lol...
I had a lovely gift today. I was scooting really slowly through a busy Devonport when a woman tapped me on the shoulder in a very gentle and loving way and spoke to me in te reo. I smiled at her and nodded, with no idea what she had said but knowing it was well meant. Got home and googled the phrase, to discover it was 'manaaki koe, whaea' - or bless you auntie, obviously supporting my choice to fly the tino rangatiratanga flag on the scoot. The response to that little act has been interesting over the months since I started, ranging from outright stares, to celebratory toots, thumbs up, and lots and lots of kia oras from all kinds of people. And only one negative response from a man who called it a divisive act. Just one.
Makes me smile, and proud to be a kiwi...
Hunni - We adopted a beautiful mixed race baby boy - first time I took him to Plunket told the plunket nurse he was part Māori - she was horrified told me I would be walking down the street with him in his push chair people would say he has a touch of the tar pot and when he has children I am going to be embarrassed as one could be black - suffice to say his plunket book has only one entry - but I must say I don’t agree that his children should get privileges because of that mixed blood