Road Rage

[Dave Lobster]

In that case I'm sure you understood what i meant, i just don't know how some kbers cant stand Maori/Polynesian. I'm fighting similarly the perception on bikers, there's the squids that make big headlines that overshadow the good sensible riders of today. I'M not no saint but the media magnifies crimes in NZ associated with the Maori/Polynesian population. So much that when the society reads the newspaper they "catoragize" us into the common view.

I'm pretty sure that KBers can't stand maori/polynesian criminals, rather than maori/polynesian people per ce. Much the same sort of attitude they'd show to white criminals
I'm also not sure that the media needs to magnify crime related to the maori/polynesian population. Seriously, sit in a court (any court) for a day, and see how many of the people in there are polynesian. I'm in court quite a lot (with work), and well over 90% of the people going through are maori/polynesian. And a lot of it is violent crime/drugs/gang behaviour. Not the sort of thing that attracts the media attention.

[Maki]

If you beat a man to death you should be up on a murder charge. I don't care what color your skin happens to be, or where your mama was born...

[Beemer]

Seems to be more common in big cities than rural NZ. Maybe because of the higher density of traffic leading to more confrontations? But then, why aren't there more bystanders to intervene?

I like to think that if something similar to this attack happened in my neck of the woods, someone would intervene.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that as I've experienced two incidents in little old Levin where people who were in the wrong have behaved threateningly towards me or my husband. In the first one, a woman who was beside me in a left-turning lane tried to cut in front of me to go straight through at a roundabout but didn't manage it. While I was waiting for a car to exit the roundabout, she then jumped out of her car and ran towards the driver's door of mine. Thankfully I was able to drive off, leaving her ranting and raving in the middle of the road with other drivers tooting at her. In the second incident, we were driving past Levin's adventure park when a guy in a white van pulled straight out in front of us. We tooted and he waved his fist at us and gave us the finger. I gave him the finger back so he swerved to the side of the road again, jumped out of his van and started running towards us. Again, we were lucky that there was a break in the traffic and we were able to move off, but what the fuck is going on when two people, both of whom were totally in the wrong, appear to want to thump US when we had done nothing wrong?

If I do something stupid (and we all do, at times) like pull out and not see another car as it may have been in my blind spot, I wave and mouth "sorry" - I don't shake my fist at them and make like it's their fault.

I notice the guy in Auckland who was responsible for that elderly man's death (even if they do discover he hit his head as he fell, he wouldn't have fallen if he hadn't been punched or pushed) was from the islands. Here's hoping they deport the bastard if that's the case. I don't want to point any fingers here but in both incidents I was involved with, the other driver was of the tanned persuasion.

[Dean]

I'm pretty sure that KBers can't stand maori/polynesian criminals, rather than maori/polynesian people per ce. Much the same sort of attitude they'd show to white criminals
I'm also not sure that the media needs to magnify crime related to the maori/polynesian population. Seriously, sit in a court (any court) for a day, and see how many of the people in there are polynesian. I'm in court quite a lot (with work), and well over 90% of the people going through are maori/polynesian. And a lot of it is violent crime/drugs/gang behaviour. Not the sort of thing that attracts the media attention.

I see what you mean, and some of the Maori population do get in to criminal behaviour and possibly spent/spending their sentence in juvenile detention or prison.
But i get painted with the same brush, the society of today "catorigize" me, i have noticed it in the past and still ever present. Its always your on one side, or the other from their viewpoint, take a look at crimes that were big time. The media control our thoughts and opinions on most things, take away our ability to discern and judgement. If someone (Maori) steals a motorbike per Ce and this person has a mental illness that was never treated and neglected for most of his life, the society paint him with the same brush as the murderers. They say hes good for nothing just like the other "coons", in no way did they show some mercy and understanding of what the person was going through at the time.