Comments on: Working Alongside Maori Capitalism To Enrich “Aotearoa Inc.”

By: cushla

cushla — Thu, 27 May 2021 01:16:14 +0000

Chris. I believe that you are missing some importqant aspects of how maori society operates. The fundamental importance of whakapapa and whanaungatanga.
Yes we have leaders who follow the big business model of governance, that is what those trusts were set up to do. e.g. settlement money that came with strings such as “professional” governance and minimum rates of return for investments. Those leader have been doing the job they were given.
While they are constrained by the wider world (and those rules of the game), there is no point us trying to ask them to operate differently. We would have to change the world for that to happen.
However, given the right to redesign our institutions, our other leaders will emerge. Our marae based leaders. And there are well established ways of levelling people so that elites cant damage whakapapa and whanaungatanga and marae. At the moment our “capitalist” leaders (our uncles) are protected by the wider world that has colonised us. But that will change when we can de-colonise our institutions.
Of course change will be slow and painful and include mis-steps along the way. It would be nice to think that we could be allowed to go through that process without others judging our mis-steps harshly and out of context.
We can only hope for the opportunity and to be left alone to do the work.
John minto got it right.

By: CHRIS TROTTER

CHRIS TROTTER — Wed, 26 May 2021 00:57:50 +0000

In reply to OnceWasTim.

Give me a passionate opponent over a bored critic any day of the week, OWT. I engage with John’s ideas because they are important and deserve to be taken as such.

In the words of C.S. Lewis: “The next best thing to a noble friend, is a noble enemy.”

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 25 May 2021 21:42:32 +0000

In reply to covid is pa. If

By: covid is pa

covid is pa — Tue, 25 May 2021 21:11:31 +0000

Where our TOW claims money goes is our business its only a fraction of what our land is worth anyway new view and by the way we are tax payers too and we have never got our fair share of the NZ pie.

By: Michal

Michal — Tue, 25 May 2021 21:08:15 +0000

Those ‘vast’ sums of money you mention were roughly the same as the dosh the government handed out to South Canterbury Finance.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 25 May 2021 20:35:13 +0000

In reply to Michal. That's a fashionable falsehood. In fact all the ex British colonies I have worked in were left with perfectly functioning roads, railways, schools, universities, industries and systems of government.

By: Keepcalmcarryon

Keepcalmcarryon — Tue, 25 May 2021 09:39:46 +0000

Critical Race Theory underpins the woke and their noble savage routine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
“Critical race theory is loosely unified by two common themes: first, that white supremacy (societal racism) exists and maintains power through the law;[6] and second, that transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and also achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly, are possible.[7]

Critics of critical race theory argue that it relies on social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes liberalism.[8][9][10]”

Minto is simply assuming the system is racist as it has somehow become acceptable to do. The rest follows from that one gigantic, invented assertion.
America’s society, far from ever perfect, is becoming a basket case because of racial division like this, it certainly doesn’t belong here.

By: OnceWasTim

OnceWasTim — Tue, 25 May 2021 05:53:41 +0000

@ Chris. Did you and John have some sort of falling out in years gone by, or is it that his wisdom doesn’t quite fit with yours – neatly enough?
Maybe when you’re both parked up in some Ryman Care rest home with a dalit or filipino ‘economic’ refugee wiping your arses you could get over your fixation and become allies rather than doing your best to undermine each other.
You know … transformation and kindness style.
It’s becoming bloody tedious

By: Michal

Michal — Tue, 25 May 2021 04:33:01 +0000

In reply to Andrew. My goodness Andrew many of these places were raped and pillaged by the colonisers and left in poverty.

By: Bob For Apples

Bob For Apples — Tue, 25 May 2021 02:50:30 +0000

In reply to Andrew.

It is nothing new that there is usually turmoil when a dominant power leaves or a power balance is upset. This clearly doesn’t apply to Aotearoa NZ – Pakeha aren’t going anywhere.
I can’t think of any reason for your post unless it is to support a general distain for “native” populations and that they can’t be trusted to run their own affairs. If that is the case you really should not have been working in those 3rd world countries.