O Lord Its Good to Be A Maori.....
Mood:  cheeky
What a great country we all live in, huh. Where else can you pretend that there is only one race that is worth considering, where redress is interpreted as advantage, where being a kiwi - remember that flightless, blind, ground rooting, near extinct icon - is preferable to being a soaring hawk, where everyone else knows whats good for you, where pronouncing peoples names correctly is considered "politically correct" and where Winston Peters looks positively lily brown compared to some of the present day political combatants. Yep I love this country. And I really do!!! Its only some of the twits that live here and masquerade as egalitarian eunuchs I object to!

Perhaps i am feeling slightly miffed but I get the feeling that my fellow brown boys/girls and I are once again going to become the political football to be mercilessly kicked around and used as fodder to feed the the frenzied ignorant massses, with apologies to those who refuse to be diverted by such prejudices.

An yet there is an underlying assumption that there is no such thing as "white privilege" because these are based on what Robert Consedine sees as "...a set of assumptions about what is regarded as neutral, normal and universally available." James Baldwin, again quoted by Consedine, says that"The biggest problem with white privilege is the invisibility it maintains to those who benefit from it most. The inability to recognise that the many of the advantages that whites hold are a direct result of the disadvantages of other people..."

The call to abolish the Maori seats plays on the prejudices of those who see these as separate entities. But take a closer look at why these exist. (to be continued later)