{"id":10651,"date":"2018-02-12T20:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T07:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2018-02-17T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:49:17","slug":"labours-maori-mps-first-test-is-to-strip-sir-bob-jones-of-his-knighthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"Labour MPs first test is to strip Sir Bob Jones of his Knighthood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

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Sir Bob Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aotearoa race relations is now at a boiling point with stupid comments being made about M\u0101ori by decorated Knights.<\/p>\n

Recently Sir William Gallagher claimed redress for land theft by the colonial government were \u201cbloody reparations\u201d to M\u0101ori and that the Treaty was a rort.<\/p>\n

Sir Bob Jones in the NBR wants a M\u0101ori gratitude day where M\u0101ori serve British NZers breakfast in bed weed their gardens, wash and polish their cars. Basically a day of slavery as gratitude for colonisation.<\/p>\n

Both men as chivalrous Knights of her Majesty the Queen, endowed with principles of honour, integrity, distinction and glory. But these captains of industry have been acting like medieval feudal Knights from the dark ages making public statements that M\u0101ori the most underprivileged people in the land remain mere peasants that should serve their lords in serfdom.<\/p>\n

M\u0101ori have had a gutsful. The racism needs to stop NOW . M\u0101ori expect to be respected as tangata whenua, first class citizens, whose Tupuna founded this nation and who also signed the Treaty that permitted British immigrants the privilege of living in the most beautiful country on earth. No conquest took place. It was a benevolent agreement by the rangatira, tribes and hapu .<\/p>\n

Gallagher and Jones were born into a country where M\u0101ori were relegated to second class citizens in New Zealand society. M\u0101ori culture was limited in the media where radio presenters spoke with pompous British accents and who vilified M\u0101ori renaissance.<\/p>\n

These Knights have failed to understand Aotearoa has changed dramatically in the 21st century. News presenters like Guyon Espiner and Jack Tame entwine Te Reo Maori, the native reo into their news broadcast as do announcers in Hawaii, Rarotonga and Tahiti.<\/p>\n

At the Waitangi Day commemorations, Prime Minister Jacinda Adern was highly praised in M\u0101ori circles for her warmness and inclusive approach at Waitangi . For some reason , M\u0101ori leaders were subdued and never spoke about the Wai claim, TPPA- perhaps giving the Prime Minister a year’s grace.<\/p>\n

After the overwhelming support of Renae Maihi petition to strip Sir Bob Jones of his Knighthood, the M\u0101ori electorates want to see some results for their majority voting for Labour. They want to see a Government that is seen to be on their side. A Government that isn\u2019t afraid to make an example of Sir Bob Jones and won\u2019t protect the feelings of non-M\u0101ori voters that feel animosity towards M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

The Knighthood stripping drive needs to be led by prominent Labour MPs to show they have influence within their organisation. If the MPs don\u2019t believe this is a genuine test I suggest they count how many times they see Sir Bob Jones image on their Facebook feeds.<\/p>\n

Did we all notice Mike Hoskings is gone from 7pm News? One influential racist removed from his media post. Ka pai M\u0101ori opinion counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Joe Trinder Aotearoa race relations is now at a boiling point with stupid comments being made about M\u0101ori by decorated Knights. Recently Sir William Gallagher claimed redress for land theft by the colonial government were \u201cbloody reparations\u201d to M\u0101ori and that the Treaty was a rort. Sir Bob Jones in the NBR wants a M\u0101ori […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10693,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions\/10693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}