{"id":9724,"date":"2016-09-30T03:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2016-09-30T03:52:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T14:52:45","slug":"hobsons-pledge-or-hobsons-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9724","title":{"rendered":"HOBSONS PLEDGE OR HOBSONS CHOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\" alt=\"HoneAvatar\" width=\"84\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana Leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9726\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash.jpg\" alt=\"brash\" width=\"850\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash.jpg 850w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash-122x74.jpg 122w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash-570x342.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brash-701x421.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">When <strong>Donald Brash<\/strong> talks in glowing terms about <strong>Hobson\u2019s Pledge<\/strong> and his determination to take away rights guaranteed under the Treaty of Waitangi, he sounds awfully like <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> offering Muslims and Mexicans and Black American\u2019s his version of <strong>Hobson\u2019s Choice<\/strong> \u2013 the White Way or the Highway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Well, good luck Donald. Every country needs a redneck by which they can measure the state of their race relations. Ours aren\u2019t great, but they certainly won\u2019t get better following Hobson\u2019s line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">America under Donald Trump and Hobson\u2019s Choice would be an absolute bloody disaster for anyone of greater colour than the bottle-tan that he wears. And Aotearoa under Donald Brash and Hobson\u2019s Pledge would be much the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">A quick scan of so-called \u2018Maori privilege\u2019 tells us exactly how Maori are getting on \u2026 in housing \u2013 badly; employment \u2013 badly; health \u2013 badly; education \u2013 badly; prison \u2013 badly; crime \u2013 badly \u2026 need I carry on?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">The myth of Maori privilege dies on the battlefield of statistics and the grim reality of the living poor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">All that Don Brash is Trump-petting is nothing but good old-fashioned racism dressed up in the words of another old white guy from a couple of hundred years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Let\u2019s move on \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana Leader Hone Harawira When Donald Brash talks in glowing terms about Hobson\u2019s Pledge and his determination to take away rights guaranteed under the Treaty of Waitangi, he sounds awfully like Donald Trump offering Muslims and Mexicans and Black American\u2019s his version of Hobson\u2019s Choice \u2013 the White Way or the Highway. Well, good luck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tiriti","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724"}],"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=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9727,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/9727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}