{"id":4149,"date":"2015-03-26T07:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2015-08-24T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T23:01:09","slug":"david-round-and-the-maori-aristocracy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4149","title":{"rendered":"David Round and the Maori aristocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04793-aristocracy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3794\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04793-aristocracy.jpg\" alt=\"04793-aristocracy\" width=\"750\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04793-aristocracy.jpg 400w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04793-aristocracy-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>David Round the\u00a0author of Truth or Treaty?\u00a0is a Canterbury university academic making absurd claims\u00a0to the New Zealand public that Maori are privileged and the aristocracy.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/round2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1215\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/round2.jpg\" alt=\"round2\" width=\"249\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/round2.jpg 249w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/round2-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em> \u201cYou get a lighter sentence than anyone else if you are a member of the Maori aristocracy Too bad if you are just a stupid common old white person\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Round has made a claim that Maori are the aristocracy despite\u00a0every statistic\u00a0has Maori with the highest unemployment and incarceration rates.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em> \u201cA Maori of aristocratic birth should not be punished as other people should be punished\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maori are not born into Aristocracy they are normally born into poverty.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span>\u00a0&#8220;<em>And meting out more lenient punishments to those of Maori birth, or even some of those of Maori birth, will of course simply lead to more Maori crime.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maori don\u2019t receive lenient punishments in the criminal justice system in fact it\u2019s quite the opposite for example Teina Pora.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em>\u00a0&#8220;It is deeply ironic that John Key is now enjoying a certain popularity for \u2018standing up to the Maoris\u2019.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Maori circles John Key is the most despised New Zealand prime minister in the 21<sup>st<\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em> \u201cIt is well past time to expect Maori to keep their word, and for us simply to say \u2018no\u2019 to further Maori greed.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turning a blind eye of British colonial greed during the New Zealand settlements Act 1863 the biggest gravy train in New Zealand history.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em> \u201cEnvironmentalists delude themselves, however, if they expect improvements after Maori take over. Maori have no special gene for environmental care.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalism is not in Maori DNA it\u2019s part of Maori culture as with most indigenous cultures.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em> &#8220;After the retirement of the Maori Party\u2019s present leaders it seems highly likely that its new leader will be that rampant racist Hone Harawira ~ he who does not want any white boys near his daughters, and who is unrepentant in describing us as white motherfuckers.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr Round has the audacity to claim Hone Harawira is racist over a private email that\u2019s rich coming from this radical.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em> \u201cWhy is it, I cannot but wonder, that gangs and Maoris just seem to go together? I cannot believe that it is all injustice and oppression, I\u2019m sorry. Plenty of other people are also poor and oppressed. Maori are not the only victims.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why is it, I cannot but wonder, that soccer hooliganism and the English just seem to go together? \u00a0Yet there are Gangs all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Round<\/span><em> &#8220;A large and increasing number of Maori are now (completely mistakenly) convinced that they own all the water in New Zealand.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr Round has not\u00a0read and comprehended article two of the Treaty of Waitangi, waters rights categorically belong to the families of the signatories.\u00a0Mr Rounds\u00a0opinions of Maori that are one sided and highly inaccurate without any consultation with Tangata Whenua.<\/p>\n<p>Mana News is demanding Canterbury university terminate Professor Round\u2019s employment. Based on Professor Rounds prejudice comments\u00a0and promoting the suppression of indigenous rights.\u00a0Canterbury University has an obligation to\u00a0be consistent with its missions statement towards indigenous people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><em>M\u0101ori identity and knowledge is recognised and valued at the University of Canterbury. As the indigenous people, an understanding is needed for all non-M\u0101ori graduates to respect and understand M\u0101ori knowledge and systems.<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Round the\u00a0author of Truth or Treaty?\u00a0is a Canterbury university academic making absurd claims\u00a0to the New Zealand public that Maori are privileged and the aristocracy. David Round \u201cYou get a lighter sentence than anyone else if you are a member of the Maori aristocracy Too bad if you are just a stupid common old white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4149","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\/4149"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}