Maori Pakiha relations

What is the long term solution to Maori activism and separatism?

Who are the protagonists in this argument? From our perspective as the white European parent stock of this England of the South Pacific, it is in our interests to preserve the racial balance of this country. The Maori people – and we have already discussed at length the fact that there are no full blood Maori in existence -are led by activists that seek by any means necessary to completely overturn the prevailing government and culture of New Zealand.

From a traditionalist European perspective, what is not OK. We can perhaps arrive at a workable solution by deciding beforehand what we are not prepared to accept.

The white majority, or indeed any none Maori community in New Zealand should not be forced to have Maori culture forced upon us in every aspect of civic and social life, that for starters is not acceptable. Neither should the non-Maori community be forced to pay for Maori privilege in our society. If they want to separate themselves from the rest of New Zealand society and have an independent health system, and their own schools where they can teach their children all kinds of false narratives about evil white oppression then they are more than welcome to do so, but we can not be expected to pay for it, period. 

Perhaps they might like to consider the proposals of Malcolm X in America in the 1950s. He spoke out against the integrationist policies of Martin Luther King and advocated separate but equal development. It would require segregation to provide for separate schools and health services, once again largely paid for by everyone else. 

But imagine that coming to fruition in New Zealand. It would be traumatic to say the least. And the people who speak of themselves as Maori, how many of them are even 50 percent of that race?

No, in the words of Sir Apirana Ngata “There is one law for Maori and for Pakeha, the Treaty of Waitangi ordained it so.”