Wait – WHAT?
Local board chair apologises after leaving meeting due to karakia
The chair of a local community board has apologised for the “offence” caused after he walked out of the first meeting of the new term due to the pre-meeting karakia.
Mark Drury and fellow Whangamatā Community Board member, Deputy Chair Neil Evans, left the room where the meeting was being held while the karakia was being recited.
The ears of redneck crackers are so brittle and fragile that they must rush from any room where a karakia is spoken just in case the mere mention of one word in Māori will be so damaging to the brain of Honky that it could trigger strokes, brain cancer and testicular swelling.
Deputy Chair Neil Evans said:
“I am a little bit uncomfortable with it, and I would prefer not to be part of that, So if you will excuse me, the alternative is, as part of our tikanga in the past we have not had karakia, and that would suit me.”
Deputy Chair Neil Evans then went on to explain that it wasn’t all karakia that he was allergic to, but just this one specific karakia.
Here is the translation that Deputy Chair Neil Evans found so impossible to remain in the room for:
“Come forth from above, come forth from below, come forth from within, come forth from the environment, vitality and wellbeing for all, strengthened in unity.”
Clearly horrific words for any redneck cracker to have to listen to.
Then at the end of the meeting when a closing karaikia was being recited, another Whangamatā board member again had to leave the room saying:
“I am going to step out for a minute. I don’t know how that works, but just did,”
Now some cruel people will want to viciously mock the easily triggered snowflake rednecks who had to leave the room in case their poor precious souls are forced hear one single word of te reo, but brittle ‘Honky Ear‘ is a serious medical condition, and we should feel sympathy for old white men being forced to hear the indigenous mother tongue of the land they live in.
Thoughts and Prayers for the Whangamatā Community Board in their fight against ‘Honkey Ear’.
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The cure for Honky Ear is more money, apparently.
Is Martyn going woke? Fair enough to be disappointed at people who don’t share your appreciation for Maori culture but in the big scheme of things it is not an issue that needs making a stand on.