| This has to be the Letter of the year – Northern Advocate 14.02.2011. A young man from Ruakaka wrote this.
Letters to the editor:
Hone‘s views are out of touch.
I am a 20-yr old Maori born in the Far North.
I am sick and tired of Hone Harawira saying he is speaking for all North Maori. Like a lot of my friends, we are not Hone Harawira fans. His mother say’s he has always been a leader. No way is he a leader. A leader is someone who can see both sides. Hone is just all for anything Maori.
Look, when his Nephew assaulted the Prime Minister, right away Hone stated “He’s a fine young man”. No Hone, he acted like a thug. You would have got my and a lot of other people’s respect if you had spoken out against the attack. How verbal would you have been if a Pakeha had attacked our Maori King?
My Grandmother was a very proud Maori woman, her view was the Maori Party was not needed, we are all simply Kiwis..
There is a Statute of Limitations on most grievances; why does it not apply to the Treaty? We have Pakeha & Maori blended happily in our family. My grandmother used to listen to the “I want it’s” as she called them, and told me “If you are going to to live in the past, you will never be a part of the future”.
No one needs to own the fore-shore. God gave it to us all to enjoy. If Hone wants to help Maori, he could try and put a stop to Maori youth crime and Maori abusing their children. Hone, do you know or care how many Maori children are in care, taken from bad parents? I do, and it is scary.
Tourists robbed at the Falls in Whangarei, again, Maori. When you talk about Hone’s followers, why not try talking to Maori who work and who do not spend all day in pubs and playing the pokies.
Hone talks about Maori health and education being at the bottom of the scrap heap.
I stayed at school and got a degree. I have looked at an old school photo. I am one of two Maori to do this. All the rest dropped out, eight got pregnant, most smoked. Hone, this was their choice. Did their families care? No way. You can’t blame Pakeha and the government for everything.
Stop spoon-feeding Maori, Far North Maori have turned into whining “you owe me” no hopers..
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