WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: The King and his Political Legacy
Kīngi Tūheitia’s tangi has become a cultural event that has gone well beyond Māoridom, and has managed to impact all New Zealanders.
This magnificence of a Māori Royal funeral has probably been watched by more people than any before them because of the live streamed wall to wall coverage and social media.
There are far better people with far closer understandings of Kīngi Tūheitia’s personality and humble joy for me to shed any insight of the person he was, but what I would like to offer is a brief oversight of his political legacy which really blossomed with the election of the current National led Government.
Kīngi Tūheitia, more than any other leader, seemed to understand the genuine threat that National, ACT and NZFirsty posed Māori.
He was the first to call for a stand against this new Government’s anti-Māori, anti-Treaty agenda, and he continued this call.
Denigrating the Māori language, dumping 7aa of Oranga Tamariki, cutting public services many Māori depend upon, repealing 3 Waters, destroying the Māori Health Authority, limiting Māori customary fishing rights and threatening the Treaty Principle’s referendum are all examples of this anti-Treaty and anti-Māori agenda and Kīngi Tūheitia foresaw it before any one else.
The resistance he has inspired against the barrage of attacks on Māori is his political legacy, understanding and foreseeing the threat National, ACT and NZ First posed is his political legacy and his refusal to allow division to blunt a pushback against this Government’s anti-Māori and anti-Treaty agenda is his legacy.
A great King understands an immediate threat to his people, and Kīngi Tūheitia understood before anyone else just how radical this new Government were about to be.
He was a great King for seeing the threat and we have an obligation to continue his courage against this anti-Treaty agenda.
The King has died, long live the King.
All power to the new Queen.
A new era has arrived .We now have the under 30s on the scene .They can hold their own against the older generation who are reluctant to move foward as the young Waikato MP showed when she told Winston that he was wasting his blood in parliament a few weeks a go .The old cunt had no come back to that truth .The new Queen will be of the same mold as she moves Maori into the next phase of all of NZ living in harmony .
Ana, who this Maori, ARISTOCRACY, A NEW CROWN, egits ignore.