It is outrageous that the so called ‘Taxpayer’s Union’, a right wing attack club fronted by Dirty Politics agent Jordan Williams, attacked the Māori custom of Koha this week as some sort of corrupt Ministerial bribe.
Yesterday 14 year old Haami Hanara was convicted of murdering 40 year old homeless man Kelly Donner behind a Flaxmere Tavern in March of this year.
In 1979 we went up to the Auckland University and “beat the shit” out of 51 Pakeha students.
Why?
I’ve been keeping abreast of the drama that has been unfolding around the police’s involvement in the Auckland Pride Parade, but only from a distance. I’ve avoided the hui and Facebook rants, but I’ve heard about them second hand from friends and colleagues.
As sponsor after sponsor after sponsor march out of the Pride Parade, those Trans Activists advocating for the exclusion of Police in uniform have desperately attempted to broaden the justifications of exclusion because the ‘uniform might trigger Trans people’ argument has looked increasingly flakey.
The Photo attached to this post is from 1932 when Wellington Police on horseback charged a demonstration by the unemployed during the Great Depression
…my first thought was that Lizzie Marvelly, Alison Mau, Marama ‘white dudes delete themselves’ Davidson and micro-aggression policing millennials at The Spinoff had joined forces and had called Santa out for his heteronormative white cis male privilege, I mean how many other women and people of colour can just break into your house in the middle of the night and hang out with your kids?
SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED that the rainbow community turned out to be so conservative? That the effort of the Pride Parade board to address the fear so easily triggered by police uniforms has provoked such a swift and devastating backlash? That so many people have forgotten what it feels like to be labelled, singled-out, trashed and excluded? That so many New Zealanders seem unaware that it is precisely those who dwell furthest away from the blessings of societal acceptance that have the strongest claim to our care and protection?
…maybe racism this bad just needs the bash?
People often ask why I’m not afraid to stand against antiquated status quo driven conventional thinking.