Maori "Get Off Their Arse"

[wharekura]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times...ats-on-council

Line up and please, no pushing in

[winston]

Shes jus a racist cow, we should have maori seats they were the tangatawhenua and they should be ont he council and they need help as they dont have jobs and arent very bright.

[Asher]

Maori should be on the council but they should also get there on their own merits and not have a seat saved for them.

[Tigadee]

If a quarter of the population were Maori, then they can easily elect in two council members...

[scumdog]

Maori should be on the council but they should also get there on their own merits and not have a seat saved for them.

True.

It should be: 'The best person for the job'.

Race and/or gender shouldn't come into it.

[SMOKEU]

Why do I get the feeling that this thread is going to end up in PD?

[scumdog]

Why do I get the feeling that this thread is going to end up in PD?

'Cos you're now on it??

[wtf?]

Whats so special about tangata whenua?

I am of the land. I was born there. Just as much as the next bloke. Rights and privileges based on race is a very slippery slope. The sooner we get rid rid of race based policy and pandering to the noisy ones the better off everyone will be. Including the Maoris.

[awa355]

Shes jus a racist cow, we should have maori seats they were the tangatawhenua and they should be ont he council and they need help as they dont have jobs and arent very bright.

The OP'r is a Maori and a fairly decent person. I know plenty of scumbags and no hopers.

Dumb and lazy, doesn't come in any particular shade of skin. . And yes I do think any position as a representation should be won on merit.

[wharekura]

Whats so special about tangata whenua?

I am of the land. I was born there. Just as much as the next bloke. Rights and privileges based on race is a very slippery slope. The sooner we get rid rid of race based policy and pandering to the noisy ones the better off everyone will be. Including the Maoris.

ahhh, now that was the response i was waiting for - u fellas at the top of the thread are too liberal for my liking.

The problem will not change. The solution will not change either. All fucking niggers must fucking hang. No man, no problem.

Now this is someone that does not hold back!

[Asher]

Whats so special about tangata whenua?

I am of the land. I was born there. Just as much as the next bloke. Rights and privileges based on race is a very slippery slope. The sooner we get rid rid of race based policy and pandering to the noisy ones the better off everyone will be. Including the Maoris.

I think we still owe the Maori a huge amount, the way the were treated in the not so distant past was terrible.
We owe them support and need to help them integrate themselves into a system that we forced on them, but has the time come when they need to take the responsibility onto themselves and stand on their own feet? debatable.

[HenryDorsetCase]

If a quarter of the population were Maori, then they can easily elect in two council members...

Um, its a local authority, so the qualification for franchise is property ownership.

As it should be in a general election.

In fact in my view you should get 1 vote for every $1 of equity you have in your property (so someone freehold in a $450000 house gets more say than someone 99% geared in a $5M house)

[HenryDorsetCase]

I think we still owe the Maori a huge amount, the way the were treated in the not so distant past was terrible.
We owe them support and need to help them integrate themselves into a system that we forced on them, but has the time come when they need to take the responsibility onto themselves and stand on their own feet? debatable.

"We" are.

but racism has no place in a body whose function is to provide roads and streetlights and take away the rubbish

[wtf?]

Fair comment Asher. I don't deny the history. Modern society owes no one anything other than an equal chance to participate. Anything else is a cop out.

Trouble is, the system only gives out fish. Lots of it, and far too many (not all) are only too happy to sit there and take the fish. Not a long term solution. The system should be giving out fishing rods and pointing them in the direction to go stand on the shore along side everyone else.

[duckonin]

I think we still owe the Maori a huge amount, the way the were treated in the not so distant past was terrible.
We owe them support and need to help them integrate themselves into a system that we forced on them, but has the time come when they need to take the responsibility onto themselves and stand on their own feet? debatable.

We owe Maori nothing at all period ! Maori do not exist. Good god man read what you have written. Support,intergrate, 'that 'we' forced on them'. Get a grip, most have way more white blood than the blood they claim owes them an existence. Those that live today grew up and were educated in the same class rooms as ourselves.

Thoughts from those like you, keep the kettle boiling in the favor of those with half a brain,just so they can make another and another claim for their own advantage.