{"id":8796,"date":"2016-02-10T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=8796"},"modified":"2016-02-14T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T21:08:06","slug":"apology-to-kuia-kicked-out-of-kaumatua-tent-at-ngapuhi-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=8796","title":{"rendered":"Apology to Kuia kicked out of kaumatua tent at Ngapuhi Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tomo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8802\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tomo.jpg\" alt=\"tomo\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tomo.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tomo-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tomo-570x285.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mana Leader Hone Harawira made this comment to Ng\u0101puhi leader <em>Sonny Tau<\/em>\u00a0 on facebook<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3048\" class=\"\">Are you for real Sonny?<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3050\" class=\"\" \/>Sonny Tau kicks a kuia out of the tent \u00a0 because she&#8217;s got a TINO flag <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8230;She wanted a drink of water.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3054\" class=\"\">\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3056\" class=\"\">Do you know who that kuia was?<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3058\" class=\"\" \/>One of Ngapuhi&#8217;s greatest ever warrior women that&#8217;s who.<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3060\" class=\"\" \/>She don&#8217;t ever make a fuss about it. She never did and she never will.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3062\" class=\"\">But for your information, she was payin&#8217; her dues back when most Maori were too scared to even admit they were Maori, fighting the battles to save our kids on the streets of Auckland, fighting alongside Nga Tamatoa and the Polynesian Panthers in defence of our communities, standing with Ngati Whatua in defence of their lands at Bastion Point, marching against apartheid in South Africa and racism here in Aotearoa, marching the roads for Maori rights , standing up for our Treaty when a lot of our own people were trying to hide away from it, and giving the best years of her life in the fight for sovereignty so that iwi Maori could finally get back up off the canvas and stagger into the new world.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3134\">\u00a0Her name is Tomo. And she deserves better than to be treated like a .. dog.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3068\" class=\"\">So you track her down Sonny. And you get her whanau together. And you apologise for daring to evict one of the best women you will ever get the opportunity to meet.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3070\" class=\"\"><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3072\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hone.harawira\">Hone Harawira<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1455017695449_3074\" class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">PS: I ain&#8217;t anybody special Sonny, so if you want to sling shit at me you go right ahead. But Tomo deserves better &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hone.harawira?fref=ts\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hone.harawira?fref=ts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mana Leader Hone Harawira made this comment to Ng\u0101puhi leader Sonny Tau\u00a0 on facebook Are you for real Sonny?Sonny Tau kicks a kuia out of the tent \u00a0 because she&#8217;s got a TINO flag &#8230;She wanted a drink of water. Do you know who that kuia was?One of Ngapuhi&#8217;s greatest ever warrior women that&#8217;s who.She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8796","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\/8796"}],"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=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}