I can’t even be angry any more at a redneck reactionary racist like John Ansell when he calls Kapa haka ‘primitive’.
Because anger isn’t the right emotion any longer for comments like that.
When I watch Kapa haka, the hairs on arms lift, the excitement and passion and power of the performance is a raw beauty so unique and life affirming that it makes you proud of being a member of the human race.
To describe such performance art as ‘primitive’ is the ignorance of an extremist and that’s what Ansell is. So blinded by his bigotry, he has the eyes of a barbarian. He views Maori culture the way ISIS view ancient art, demanding it be destroyed rather than cherished.
If an ignorant fuckwit like Ansell can’t see the overwhelming joy that is Kapa haka, then he as a person is so warped by hate, all he can see is the ugliness he projects.
You can’t be angry at that, you can only pity it.
What a terribly lonely and bleak world he must live in.
Yeah well , … with Ansell , and his ilk , all they see is YOU , the individual , as being a commodity ,…
And in his eager little mind , – and others just like him – , as they chat with you in conversation , they are busily weighing up , ” what can I gain from this person , … and is it a waste of time conversing with them ? ”
And if they deduce you are of a certain class, or hold certain political views, or have a certain amount of money , they quickly create a mental box and place you in it.
This is just how they roll.
Mercenary’s do the same, its all for the money.
And the only ones they ever respect ( or a better word would be ‘ fear ‘ ) are those that have as much or more cash than them or the economic or political connections to harm their finances. Or embellish them.
Its not a case of being angered by them , ( that achieves nothing ) but more a case of first understanding them , anticipating them , and then planning how to foil them.
Even pity is not involved in this equation.
Just cold , hard logical planning.
The same as they would apply to you or any other decent human being.
Ignorant fuckwits like Ansell who talk about things Maori being primitive usually go to churches to worship their own primitive gods.
Ansells are also immune to or remote from “primitive,” human, real emotion and the connection of that to the world and fellow humans. Or so isolated and secure on their pillars of arrogance they are not at one with that world and their fellows. Yet that security is feigned, their pillars are teetering, in reality they are so fucking insecure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI6TRTBZUMM
We don’t need racist idiots like him(ansell ) here he can buggar of back to his own country England and take his nasty baggage with him. When he goes home he will see his country is full of foreigners which is why so many of his people are coming here. I have no problem with that as long as they leave their baggage behind.
He has picked on the wrong group these people will stand up to the idiot this is one of our top kapa haka groups they are very respected they are fantastic performers and I am proud to be Maori when I see and hear this group they are such polished beautiful performers dedicated to Maori performing Arts.
Isn’t John Ansell the John Bannon of NZ, a far-right racist, misogynist, homophobic bigot?? I’ve heard of Ansell and he is a thoroughly unpleasant person.
I believe he featured quite prominently in Nicky Hager’s ‘The Hollow Men’. He’s a propagandist for neo-liberal scumbags. As I recall, his job was to persuade the general public that the shit sandwich they were being offered by Don Brash was actually a five course meal with all the trimmings. A professional turd polisher, in other words.
Attention is his oxygen.
Well said Martyn,
As a pakeha Kiwi I was similarly impressed when I was living in Toronto I was asked to join the local Australian/Kiwi club (TRANZAC) and became a warrior in their kapa haka “Maori Concert party group”.
So I did and invited my two young children into the “Mini Maori” group also.
That year (1991) we in our Kapa Haka group got the top prize for any cultural club performance, and our picture and story was featured on the front page of the Toronto Star with me performing in the second row.
It was such a very proud moment for our family and we have been enriched by being inside the Maori cultural umbrella of my birthplace.
What better feeling can one ever have????
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