April 04, 2024
Māori space attack distraction by clowns
Former Māori affairs minister WIllie Jackson says Government ministers attacking Māori spaces at Auckland University need to learn their history.
In reponse to an ACT campaign against the designated spaces, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said he was highly disappointed they existed, and Deputy Prime Minister Winson Peters compared them to the actions of racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr Jackson says Mr Peters needs to remember his brother Jim Peters was an advocate for the spaces during his term as the university’s Pro Vice Chancellor (Māori), and has a long history of suporting Māori development and affirmative action.
“These clowns wake up and find out there’s spaces for Maori, for Pasifika. That’s because these universities have an obligation to look after some of our minority groups, particularly Pasifika people and Indigenous people. These spaces were drive by p[eople like Ranginui Walker, Pat Hohepe, Efeso Collins. These idiots just wake up ans start spouting on about racism and separatism,” he says.
Mr Jackson says the Goverment is throwing up distractions to take attention off the tax cuts it is giving the rich.