New Jacinda has stood down – how she resets Pakeha/Māori relations at Waitangi with her final ever speech

No guarantee Māori-stacked Cabinet will continue – Ardern

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won’t commit to maintaining her record number of Māori MPs in her Cabinet during her impending reshuffle but says she is committed to representational diversity.

Ardern told teaomaori.news it was crucial Parliament is “representative of our communities”.

“Half our Parliament are female; we’ve got increased Māori representation, Pasifika and ethnic communities because Parliament needs to look like New Zealand,” Ardern said.

Asked about the record one in five Māori MPs at the Cabinet decision-making table, Ardern declined to say she was setting targets.

The manner in which the Right have feverishly whipped up a conspiracy that a silent Māori coup is secretly taking over NZ via co-governance while Socialist Cindy is held hostage by WEF Communists who are implementing mass fraud using Climate Alarmist Hoaxes really highlights how fucked the political debate in this Nation over race relations has become.

When you consider the toxic bile spat at her and her family by an ungrateful nation, you understand why Jacinda quit yesterday.

We are all alone together on these lonely Isles on the far side of the Great Southern Ocean, and yet all we manage to do is squabble and defend exploitative Capitalist systems that rob us while empowering Plutocrats, Duopolies and Oligopolies.

Race relations are difficult in New Zealand.

We have an entire generation of Pakeha Baby Boomers who grew up being taught NZ had the greatest race relations in the world and learning the truth that our colonial Government immediately abused the values of the Treaty of Waitangi and ended up taking 90% of Māori land in less than a century doesn’t sit well alongside our preconceived notions of egalitarianism…

Waitangi Tribunal report finds Crown breached treaty principles, should return all Crown-owned land in northern district to Māori

A major Waitangi Tribunal report has found the Crown’s interactions with Māori between 1840 and 1900 breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and caused “severe and lasting prejudice”.

…When Elizabeth Rata coined the phrase ‘Ethno-Nationalist State‘ to describe attempts to share power with Māori as promised by the Treaty, every right winger wanting to be racist found glee in the shielding of their bigotry by the pretence of intellectualism.

What is most hilarious about Rata’s claims of Ethno-Nationalist State is that she is 100% right, it’s just that she’s right in a way she doesn’t want to admit to, which is NZ is an Ethno-Nationalist State, it’s just a White Ethno-Nationalist State.

Our systems of power and control are all white, our dominant culture is white, our benefitting from colonialism is white, our purposeful laws aimed at taking more Māori land were white, our confiscations are white, our dominant narrative is white.

So sure, NZ is an Ethno-Nationalist State, but for white people.

Any attempt to rebalance the damage caused by taking 90% of Māori land in less than a century and any attempt to live up to the promise of the Treaty must be denigrated and appallingly decried as apartheid.

The two pillars of the economic success story that is NZ, is in stealing Māori land and never ever paying the full cost of that confiscation back.

NEVER!

We are a shallow juvenile settler country with all the  cultural maturity of a can of day old coke, we are a low horizon people who lash out at others who see stars. Our imaginations are glued to cow udders, rugby and cars. To attempt a debate about identity when so many micro aggression trigger snowflakes are screaming is a feat beneath our collective dignity.

Co-Governance is the EXACT model that National and ACT developed, to now decry it because post covid stress has exacerbated economic anxieties isn’t leadership, it’s gutless capitulation to the lesser angels of our nature. What I find most hilarious is those screaming that Māori are taking over can’t name 3 councillors on their own local council.

3 Waters was an attempt to serve two maters, the Waitangi Tribunal ruling into water ownership triggered by Key selling 49% of the hydro assets and the need to find a way for Local Councils to fund water infrastructure. The way it has been manufactured into a racial smear on Nanaia Mahuta and her family DESPITE DECLARING ALL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST is proof positive that the angry and confused trump any attempt at rational debate.

What its most egregious is how these small attempts at creating basic consultation between the dominant culture and the indigenous culture they signed a Treaty with is now portrayed as a giant attack on the values of Democracy!

We are too brittle a people for the challenges in front of us.

The issue of tens of thousands on emergency housing wait lists, 200 000 kids in poverty and a million being spent daily to kettle beneficiaries into unsafe motels are still here begging to be solved. Our inequality, our damaging mental illness crisis, the underfunded health system and education systems  – all these things are demanding attention from Labour and if the price to advance those is to cut off 3 Waters and co-governance progress, then cut them off!

A National ACT Government will be the most extreme right wing Government this country has seen since Roger Douglas, Labour can not afford to lose if those policy platforms have become welded to a toxic race debate that the Ethno-Nationalist Right are winning.

To this end, the Labour Government have already singled they are pulling back on co-governance…

Co-governance plan kicked down the road to 2024

The Government has slammed the election-year brakes on New Zealand’s plan for upholding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

…part of the problem here is Labour’s refusal to front foot the issue which has allowed a vacuum that the Right have exploited with fantasy nightmares of a Māori Theocracy secretly taking over NZ.

As  Audrey Young pointed out last year, the only one attempting to debate and defend co-governance was Willie Jackson, the rest of Labour are too frightened to enter the debate because they don’t know how to balance the nationalistic desires of activist Māori who want a seperate Parliament and poor white people whose economic desperation sees everything they don’t get as separatism.

We constantly forget that there are numerically more white children in poverty than Māori, and we need far more universalism to bring everyone own board or these political attempts get hijacked by the Right as the end of Western Civilisation.

Now we have broken Jacinda and she has resigned because of the toxic invective thrown her way, she MUST use Waitangi Day to put forward her actual vision and clearly define what co-governance is.

If she can’t draw a line under this on Waitangi Day, the Right will continue to dog whistle race baiting around the issue.

Jim Bolger has called for Jacinda to define what co-governance is to avoid this very threat.

I believe Jacinda must pivot from co-governance to co-operation not only to save her legacy but Labour’s. Now she has stood down, she will be able to articulate that vision with out the viciousness accompanying her speech.

We are one big family here, we do need a collectivist drive towards community values and I personally fear nothing from Māori having a strong identity with their own worldview, we must focus less on the injustices of the past and focus directly on the ongoing injustices here!

We need universal services that are fully subsidised that brings everyone along without generating resentment.

• GST off food.
• Free public transport.
• Free breakfast and lunch in every school.
• Free dental.

These ideas do more to counter the ongoing poverty and impacts of colonialism than giving Iwi more voting powers than white people.

We need to work together to overcome the challenges of the past, but that requires the courage to actually tax the wealthy more and redistribute that money.

If Jacinda can not clearly articulate a vision for moving co-governance forward and pivoting it to co-operation, Labour’s legacy from her Leadership will lose the middle and ACT/National will win.

I don’t think we comprehend what breaking our own PM will do not only to the Left but the wider Nation itself not just on race relations, but all aspects.

 

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