Maori "Get Off Their Arse"

[Headbanger]

The system has given out education, medical care, aged care, clothing, food, jobs, houses, fish n chips, Free money, raised their standard of living out of the dirt.

[SMOKEU]

The system has given out education, medical care, aged care, clothing, food, jobs, houses, fish n chips, Free money, raised their standard of living out of the dirt.

Yet "they" still want more.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Where's that damn popcorn thing when you need it. this thread has potential

[wharekura]

Maori do not exist....those with half a brain...

And how the heck do you come up with that fact? My father (God bless him) and his siblings are Maori with no mixed blood (that I know of) based on the lineage traced back to the first landings. My generation may have mixed blood and my children definitely do (I'm married to a wonderful Christchurch proud Irish heritage women).

Now debates are good, but when crap is spread about how there are no more "Maoris" is annoying. In some part it maybe wishful thinking or a way to justify the subsequent statements.

[wtf?]

And how the heck do you come up with that fact? My father (God bless him) and his siblings are Maori with no mixed blood (that I know of) based on the lineage traced back to the first landings. My generation may have mixed blood and my children definitely do (I'm married to a wonderful Christchurch proud Irish heritage women).

Now debates are good, but when crap is spread about how there are no more "Maoris" is annoying. In some part it maybe wishful thinking or a way to justify the subsequent statements.

I think his point is why should someone with only 1/16th maori blood get any different treatment to someone with none? An argument that by definition will only get stronger and more relevant over time.

[5150]

What happened to equal privlages for all. In my personal experience and observation of the ways of this country, the biggest racists are the Maoris. They expect privlages above all other races yet most of them are not prepared to put in the hard work to achieve that them selves. They expect everything to be given to them on a plate. Education, healthcare, Maori seats in councills and government. What about the other races? Do they get the same privelages like seats etc? Nope. Everyone works hard to achieve their goal. If they want to be lazy ass then fine, I have nothing against that, but don't expect everything be given to you while others work their asses off.

[Asher]

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.

I will make myself more clear.
By "we" i mean everyone in this country who lives on or enjoys the land forcibly removed from another.
By "them" i dont mean anyone with dark skin i mean Maori heritage, culture, iwi's, marae's. I dont believe anyone claiming to be 1/16th Maori should be anymore entitled to a hand out than anyone else, but we should be doing all we can to celebrate and encourage Maori culture.

[5150]

By the way, I am not racist. I do believe that Maoris and Maori culture needs to be recognised and their history be preserved as part of this countrys history. but this is where it should end. Their rights and privelages should be equal to every other race living in this country, not below but not above either. Equal opportunity for all I say. The sooner we all recognise this and move on, the stronger this country and it's economy will become

[wtf?]

but we should be doing all we can to celebrate and encourage Maori culture.

You can mate, by all means get right in to it. Nothing wrong with that.

But the rest of us shouldn't have it forced on us, nor should we have to pay for it.

[Asher]

You can mate, by all means get right in to it. Nothing wrong with that.

But the rest of us shouldn't have it forced on us, nor should we have to pay for it.

Well then i suggest you move to a country that has no culture or history.... oh wait....

[HenryDorsetCase]

one of the things that amused me greatly a couple of years ago was a guy I worked with who is blonde haired and blue eyed, married to a redhead (ooh errr). He was busily enrolling his kids in the Ngai Tahu superannuation scheme, getting them registered or whatever because they were 1/64th Maori. How I laughed: but from their perspective = profit!

[Headbanger]

but we should be doing all we can to celebrate and encourage Maori culture.

When you say "we" I assume you are referring to maori?

Because I sure as fuck have no obligation to give a damn about the stone age practices of a cannibalistic primitive group of people.

But hey, if they want to do so (with their money) then its none of my business.

Though it is bizarre how much of what is celebrated as Maori culture seems to be what they wish it to be rather then what is was.

[SMOKEU]

There was a documentary on Maori life made a few years ago, I think they called it "Once were warriors".

[Nova.]

Whitez are almighty.

[merv]

Now there aren't many white folk in Northland are there so it seems Maori are getting off their arses (as per the header of this thread) and getting jobs in Australia and bringing the money home.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10811563

http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/ne...r-all/1405720/

When I last flew from Auckland to Perth a few weeks back many of my fellow travellers were doing exactly this - flying to their jobs in the Pilbara. Talking at the airport and on the plane they were all upbeat and positive and many had been doing the fly in fly out (FIFO) for quite some time.

Good on them I say and I doubt those Maori give a rat about Council seats.