Whine-tangi Day and Maori Protocol?

**jimbo600** · 5th February 2008, 17:29

Originally Posted by mitchilin

If I offended anyone with my comments ,but I feel Maori get the short end of the stick everytime.Walk in my shoes for a day.I'm sick of racism.Every day I have to face it you don't.

How do you face racism every day? I mean in what ways do you encounter racism in everyday life?

**mitchilin** · 5th February 2008, 17:30

Is this real?A good marae,when you have lost a loved one is the most comforting thing in the world.Media portrays one thing but reality is another.One of my best mates,said to me ,when we were burying his father in law.I want to be buried here,fuck England.

**98tls** · 5th February 2008, 17:36

Originally Posted by mitchilin

If I offended anyone with my comments ,but I feel Maori get the short end of the stick everytime.Walk in my shoes for a day.I'm sick of racism.Every day I have to face it you don't.

You think? Not a wind up at all but any chance you could explain why you feel that.I couldnt give a rats about Waitangi day and all thats gone on as i much prefer to worry about whats going on in my life at present rather than dwell on the past,since time began there have been many people wronged if you choose to look at it like that but i dont believe one bit of good has ever been done by dwelling on it.As i say not a wind up just interested in why you feel that way about it.

**Paul in NZ** · 5th February 2008, 17:37

Originally Posted by mitchilin

Is this real?A good marae,when you have lost a loved one is the most comforting thing in the world.Media portrays one thing but reality is another.One of my best mates,said to me ,when we were burying his father in law.I want to be buried here,fuck England.

I must have gone on a bad day - I thought I was going to get buried there!

I guess its like everything - good and bad eh?

Maybe we should call it wine-tangi instead and have a party?

**mitchilin** · 5th February 2008, 17:41

Originally Posted by jimbo600

How do you face racism every day? I mean in what ways do you encounter racism in everyday life?

Being the only brown face in a corporate world,being the biggest in the room,so you must be security,having people ask you "if you know what that word means?" organising meetings over the phone and having them go straight to a trainee,having people quote me bits of law,asking if there is an alternate person they could talk to.I kid you not,every single,fucking,day.

**yod** · 5th February 2008, 17:45

Originally Posted by mitchilin

If I offended anyone with my comments ,but I feel Maori get the short end of the stick everytime.Walk in my shoes for a day.I'm sick of racism.Every day I have to face it you don't.

im white, im not english, im seen as being responsible for racism that occurred 130 years before i was born

Walk in my shoes for a day

a little empathy goes a long way

**98tls** · 5th February 2008, 17:48

Originally Posted by mitchilin

Being the only brown face in a corporate world,being the biggest in the room,so you must be security,having people ask you "if you know what that word means?" organising meetings over the phone and having them go straight to a trainee,having people quote me bits of law,asking if there is an alternate person they could talk to.I kid you not,every single,fucking,day.

Really.......thats fucken North islanders for ya mate,down here we would just call you a black bastard

just kidding.When faced with that shit surely you can come up with something witty to put them in there place,you are obviously a bright bugger as you are in the corporate boardroom in the first place,ignorance can only fuck you off if you choose not to ignore it.Nice choice of bike by the way.

**mitchilin** · 5th February 2008, 17:49

Originally Posted by 98tls

You think? Not a wind up at all but any chance you could explain why you feel that.I couldnt give a rats about Waitangi day and all thats gone on as i much prefer to worry about whats going on in my life at present rather than dwell on the past,since time began there have been many people wronged if you choose to look at it like that but i dont believe one bit of good has ever been done by dwelling on it.As i say not a wind up just interested in why you feel that way about it.

Hell Mate,I was kind of feeling lost for a long while......And then I got a TL1000s.Honestly,my life changed.I finally had the bike I lusted after for so long.What the fuck else matters?Power is nothing without control.Maybe I need a selfcheck,maybe soone else does too?IDFK

**mitchilin** · 5th February 2008, 17:54

Originally Posted by 98tls

Really.......thats fucken North islanders for ya mate,down here we would just call you a black bastard

just kidding.When faced with that shit surely you can come up with something witty to put them in there place,you are obviously a bright bugger as you are in the corporate boardroom in the first place,ignorance can only fuck you off if you choose not to ignore it.Nice choice of bike by the way.

Blackiest face in Gore.Was born in Mataura.Southlander.Dads family.History there.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 5th February 2008, 17:59

this is no fun anymore, everyone's being far too reasonable, can't we get back to playing Maori radicals and White supremacists again?

**98tls** · 5th February 2008, 18:00

Originally Posted by mitchilin

Blackiest face in Gore.Was born in Mataura.Southlander.Dads family.History there.

No shit,lived in Mataura myself moons ago,worked at the works.Almost married a girl from there but managed to escape.

**MSTRS:Me** · 5th February 2008, 18:04

Originally Posted by 98tls

Anyone got a spare flag,ive found the shotgun but cant find the fucken flag.

Sorry it took so long. I've turned the place upside down and all I could find was this. Will it do?

**ElCoyote** · 5th February 2008, 18:05

Originally Posted by Jim2

Sorry mate, but it's gone from being a National Day of celebration to being the sort of angry rant you just popped up.

You're also about as racist as it gets, but I guess I'm not "entitled" to say that. My ancestors put up with a 2000 years of oppression and genocide and there's fuck all of us left. A lot of us ended up here, but we're being made unwelcome once again. Big chunks of my racial history are dead and gone. My language effectively died out during the 19th centrury diaspora of my people, but you don't care about welcoming me as a fellow sufferer at the hands of the same people who stiffed you, you just think all white people are "English".

So it's copacetic then?