Originally Posted by
tigertim20
perhaps you should delve a little bit deeper into the facts, before taking the baseline stats as an accurate measure of truth.
Are you aware of what constitutes 'maori' in the accepted legal/official realm?
A person who is full, half, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, 1/128, 1/256 can be identified as being 'maori', thus in truth, there may have been quite a large number of generations pass, since there was any maori blood injected into the bloodline of an offender who is classed as/ identifies as, being a 'maori'.
remember smoke, someone that is 1/4 maori, is probably at least 1/2 european. - so a huge number of offenders that you refer to are actually 'more white than black'.
Its funny, so many people like to complain about how maori get certain benefits in New Zealand - theyll say 'why the fuck is XXXX allowedf to play for the NZ maori rugby team, he's only an eighth maori' or 'how come that kid gets xxxx benefit when (s)he is only 1/32 maori'
But the very same people will jump up and say 'I told you that offender would be a black/maori person' - ignoring the fact that the offender to which they refer is really only 1/128th maori, and a considerably larger part of their heritage is european.
You gotta get some consistency going here smoke, take a deeper look before spouting BS about a persons propensity to violence or crime of any sort based on their ethnicity.
Oh, I should also add that there are different considering factors for different collections of statistics, meaning that there will be a different emphasis on race, and other factors depending on what the statistics are being collected for. the same factors for a NZ census are not the same as those applied to an overview of the prison population - so a prison population comparison to a census is not necessarily an accurate measure.
as above, and for fuck sakes, dont get into the 'true maori' - how do you define a 'true maori'? your definition, min, and that of someone who identifies as being maori will all be different.
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