SEYMOUR’S BILL. CREATING RACIAL DIVISION OR RACIAL UNITY? The Truth? Accusing David Seymour Of Caus

SEYMOUR’S BILL. CREATING RACIAL DIVISION OR RACIAL UNITY? The Truth? Accusing David Seymour Of Causing Racial Division Is OHensive. Luxon says it. Activists say it. Church leaders have recently come out and said it. David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill creates division. But how true is this? It is factual? Is David Seymour really creating division? The answer is an emphatic “no!” Absolutely “no!” The exact opposite is true. It’s going to restore racial harmony and unity. Let me explain. In the 1940,50s, and 60’s NZ was, generally speaking, the most racially harmonious country in the world. Our economy was booming. Then in the late 1960s and early 1970s Maori activists began to fire up. Not all Maori. I am talking about activist Maori. In 1974, via the Maori Purposes Act, the definition of what a Maori was changed. It used to be that to be deemed a Maori one needed to have 50% of more Maori blood. Suddenly, all that was necessary to be a Maori was to say you were one. This change was made because the number of Maori in NZ determines how many Maori seats in Parliament are allocated, and what government funding goes to Maori. Non-Maori watching on could see what was happening (that activists were angling to get more seats in Parliament, which it itself if an example of racism and apartheid), and where this law change was leading (activist Maori were manipulating ‘the system’ so as to get their hands on as much free cash as possible), and the corruption, and so the seeds of resentment against Maori were sown. Nothing upsets people as much as when they realise that they are being shafted and that those doing the shafting are getting away with it. Every time non-Maori perceived that they were being shafted, it felt like they were being stabbed in the back. With each stab, racial division got worse. Non-Maori began to deeply resent Maori activists, and by association, all Maori. Non-Maori tried to separate “activist Maori” from “good hard-working Maori”, but it was not easy to do. Most could do it, but many others could not. Most thinking people could see that Maori seats were undemocratic. In a democracy, all citizens are to be treated equally. They could see that the Maori race was being treated with favour over all the other races in NZ was undemocratic and unfair. Racial division intensified. One year later, 1975, came the Treaty of Waitangi Act. This act put racial division on turbo. It was another stab in the back for non-Maori.