Donna Pokere-Phillips :
If this was a Maori boy he would have been arrested, probably sent to borstal or worse jail and one of his three strikes would have been used up…
Sorry but this is blatant white privilege…
Lets consider the victim before we consider the perpetrator…
Daniel Hayes >>>>Donna Pokere-Phillips
Stop trying to create division. The relationship between Maori & Europeans in this country is better than most multicultural countries but we can always count on people like you to remind us how different we are to separate us
Megan Hoffman
Whoaaaaaa say what now??
Define white privilege?
My skin is white asf ,
But I am ngapuhi-tainui -turehu
Sorry but I just don’t define anyone by the colour of their skin , because I also do not want to be defined by mine
No one
Tessa Sugden
Meka Whaitiri is still in Government after she physically assaulted a staff member in her ministerial office,
Is this ‘white privilege’ too?
Or do we call that something else?
Disappointed with your attitude Donna. I thought you were better than this.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/…/labour-mp-stands-down-amid…
Labour MP stands down amid assault allegation
Tessa Sugden
How about Titewhai Harawera who was convicted of assaulting a disabled person in her care?
Last seen holding hands with Jacinda Ardern and along side John Key at Waitangi.
Given utmost respect and treated like royalty even though half her offspring have also been convicted of assault charges.
What sort of privilege do you call this?
Quote: “In 1988 Harawira, her daughter Hiniwhare, son Arthur and two others were found guilty of beating a Carrington Hospital patient. At the time Harawira was head of the Whare Paia Maori health unit. The jury also found Harawira guilty of a charge of threatening to kill. She was jailed for nine months.
The sentencing judge said that the five had carried out a “vicious and violent” attack on the patient and that the offences were “an arrogant and frightening abuse of authority and power”.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/…/4NOMI44CMZM6AQAKTIXFJSOKJU
Titewhai Harawira: Nana or Bully?
Nikki Rapana ….Maori boys who went to boarding school back when I did (I went to a Maori girls school) they beat some boys up real bad and they still made it big in their feild. Eg. Rugby or tv presenter, they weren’t judged on their past. I don’t like when people think because we went to boarding schools we were rich privileged folk. We weren’t. We were just given an opportunity to go to school away from our parents because our parents worked towards that as a goal for their kids. I duno…. The bullys from my younger days… All grew up. We all did.
Nikki Healey
The media are like vultures on this kind of stuff. Yet useless when it comes to the real issues. Far too much time is spent attacking opposition instead of holding the government of the day to account. It is weak journalism at best, blatantly and openly corrupt at worst
Shelly Blair
So if he has been stood down why is Jacinda still in Parliament she has bullied people to get vaccinated no vaccine no job that is the worst kind of bullying and her father bullied a family in Tokelau and the media think that is ok they need to be lined up against the wall of shame like their boss Jacinda Ardern
Pauline Dwyer : he said he apologized
To the boy he beat up/bullied and he said that apology was accepted! So why is it dragged up by the media? Oh yes, to keep eyes on the teenage past behaviour of an opposition member and off the worst ever in history woke NZ destructive
apartheid favoring failure ridden current prime minister!
Look what Mallards done yet he still had his job after numerous bullying behaviour as an adult so how come media haven’t looked into mallards school years?
Jeff Lax
If this is taking up all the news right now you can bet there’s some serious dodgy shit going on in the shadows.
White privilege my arse, so sick of this racial vitriol. No white privilege in my childhood, very poor family actually but I chose to work hard, be honest and made sacrifices, it’s called personal responsibility
Chantelle Baker
How is this white privilege? He was a kid and did something incredibly stupid which he was punished for. If we held every act someone young does above their head their whole life our society would never progress. When has a Māori kid been arrested at school for a school fight and put in jail? They are incredibly common and the schools deal with them internally. Race baiting for the sake of it just causes a further divide. Critical race theory is destroying our country from the inside out.
I completely agree that Sue and other candidates should have been allowed to participate in the debate. This is not a race play but an elitism ploy which is at its worst among the race-based elite.
Suzie Reyland >>>>Chantelle Baker you are correct.
It’s a Political Smear
For goodness sake. ..Mahutas Partner was Charged with Assaulting a Woman.
Let’s see that Smeared over the ‘Woke’ … Media !!
Suzie Reyland >>>>Chantelle Baker /Donna Pokere-Phillips Just doesn’t want to understand her arrogance & pure racist remarks. Suggesting they get away with things because if their skin colour is racism at it’s best !
Julie Milham>>>Donna Pokere-Phillips Your presumption of the set of punishments if it was a Maori who was the perpetrator in this case instead of a ‘white privileged’ person is clear racism – Shame on you You are only a victim if you choose to be one clearly you have fallen down that rabbit hole!
Peter Hammond
Absolutely we must criticize people that stand out in New Zealand’s limelight/political voting systems/major influences/Sports/corporations etc etc Donna Pokere-Phillips especially when they verbally write articles that are racists or have racial intentions.
And because of your status/statue & being of Maori descendant, should of known better.
Using those words “White privilege” is nothing more than Racism itself.
Not all or most of New Zealandlers Kiwi’s today & yesterday years were or had privileges & had to grow up, work hard, hard done by & survive the best way they could given their own situations/circumstances.
You are not the victim, colonisation is what it is & has happened, being able to move forward with good intentions which helps benefits every New Zealander Kiwi’s that they call home.
And as a Maori from Ngai Tahu/Kati WaiWai/Mamoe/Ngati Raukawa/Ngati Toa descendant no full well the lost & hardships of all my iwi & land’s.
But I won’t use those words “White privileges” as an excuse because other Kiwi’s were able to do really well with those Law’s that were bestowed upon us from yesteryear’s & time’s pasted.
Because it’s racist/bias/discriminating & subjective against “ALL” New Zealandler Pakeha Kiwi’s, which isn’t so.
Peter Hammond
Hey Donna, just saying! As a Maori from the 70’s know what your trying to say & brought up around racism. Absolutely!
But we have to be better than that, especially in this time & area when us Kiwi’s need each other more than ever.
When you say things like “White privilege” all that’s doing is characterizing all white kiwis, which is not the case & is a sense of bulling itself.
We have our fellow whanau pakeha Kiwi’s that don’t think like that & never have.
When we use the word “White” isn’t that making us no better than those Kiwi’s using the word “Maori” or “Maori privilege”???
Can we not rise above that?
Yes we see & read Maori bashing all over SM, I/we have no control over that.
I don’t have no control on what other iwi/Maori do in there neck of the woods, part of the country, but feel it when people say “Maori this, Maori that” and choose whether I need to respond to there conversation or not. Most are just ill-informed or ignorance of not looking deeper into things.
Guess I’m trying to say is (& this is your platform) wouldn’t it better if you worded it better so that our whanau pakeha Kiwi’s that like reading your posts & stories don’t feel oxidised & segregated from other people’s doing’s.
Just a thought
Janine Sdm
My question is – how did this come to light? Very coincidental in timing considering the drop in the polls for one particular party. NB, I have no allegiance to any political party at this stage (except definitely not red).
MY FAVOURITE COMMENT : Good on you Nick Sue Reyland
Nick Barton
Piss off ya silly lady I’m maori iv done some stupid shit at school i never been subjected to jail or anything else i was dealt with exactly the same as the white boy even maori blacker than me, same thing got told off got detention or whatever the resulting punishment was. We must of had black privilege back then?
Crystal Briggs
Why hasn’t mahuta been held accountable for her wrong doings, lies, corruption & her husband – a violent sexual offender!! Donna Pokere-Phillips seems that’s some sort of race privilege to sweep that under the carpet?
Jane Harrison ..this hit the media same time as the polls..starting to think labour may like this focus…good defeat of attention away from them….so what’s labour trying to hide from us now?
Shane Beeby
Donna Pokere-Phillips a lot of people living in camping grounds and in motels and state housing of many kinds will be wondering where there white privilege is. Being white does not make you privileged. Being coloured does not make you underprivileged.
Geoff Barclay >>>> Donna Pokere-Phillips if this politician was a maori he would have been heralded for turning his life around & becoming successful & people like you would have said the media were racist for bringing up his past misdemeanors because he was a Maori
Lorna Dejager
Wow I had mixed race parents, so I was raised to see attitude rather than colour. I’m white certainly NOT privileged as I’m now forced to live on a meger benefit BECAUSE a surgeon caused massive injuries to my body. So this is how as a medically injured disabled WHITE solo parent, I chose to deal with my son’s bullies. If you still want to CALL white privilege bullying then you need to check yourself..
My non privileged white son at age 12, skinny and short for his age, told me, when he walks home from school, there are two same age but taller and well built Maori boys that would mock him and grab handfuls of plant material from peoples gardens and throw it at him, and he said Im not the only one they do it too mum. He was really scared and intimidated. So the next day I Said ok I will pick you up from school and we will sit in the car and you tell me when these BOYS walk by. A few days later I was at the local shop before school when I dropped my son off, and saw these two boys, they were 12 but taller much bigger than me. So I tapped one of them on the shoulder and said ” hello, we need to talk, I believe you like to grab sticks and garden material and throw it at other kids when you walk home? He looked sheepish. I then said ” well here is the plan. Because I know you and your mate/brother do this to more than one child YOU don’t know who’s MOTHER I am, so I will be sitting in my car after school every day from now on, and I will follow you home and record you on my phone. Then I will knock on your parents door and tell them what cruel intimidating kids you are, and if it happens again I will ask the school to exclude you….. do you understand? Have a nice day”. The bullying stopped. Not just for MY son BUT for every other kid black or white that these assholes chose to intimidate. bullies don’t focus on colour they just focus on Power and secret intimidation. Anyone who threatens exposure is considered the bad guy. But it’s now becoming apparent the bad guy is now the white person speaking up about Maori intimidation? Why is that? A bully is clearly a damaged person being exposed by their behavior needs to made public NO MATTER a person’s skin colour. if not then that is pure racism.
And before anyone questions my mixed heritage because im white skinned. this is a photo of my father (he is the little boy bottom right).
Rana Mcneil
Tar and Feather the lot of them, weekly, for Genocide, crimes againest humanity. Jacinda stood at the WEF in 2018 and proudly stated we will have 90% vax rate in NZ. That summit was world leaders discussing the strain the conicly ill and elderly put on govt health systems around the world. Bill Gates foundation, is the owner of the patent for corona. He stated at same summit, if we do a really good good we can reduce the numbers by 15%
Donna ‘Back Tracking’ from her Statement
Donna Pokere-Phillips
If there is Colonial privilege or Maaori Privilege we have a duty to call it out. I agree that with privilege comes elitism. I think we are all on the same page. If I have offended people by using skin pigmentation to highlight my point I apologise that was not my intention. I will be careful in the future with the words I use. I will retract the word white and replace with colonial.
Jamie Cole >>>> Donna, that’s no better at all! White people born a century or more after settlement have received no advantage due to that colonialism, other than the tradition of parents who are more invested in education than Māori (and as an ex-high school teacher I can back that up). Your Critical Race Theory beliefs are a blight on you and your party.
Sue Reyland >>>Jamie Cole ;she’s trying to dig herself out of her hole she’s made for herself. She’s lost her Mana … she’s shown her true colours … pardon the pun !
Anton Waaka >>>>Donna Pokere-Phillips you just keep digging that hole deeper and deeper.
This is amazing, keep it up.
Suzie Reyland >>>>Anton Waaka exactly … I can’t believe the stupidity of the woman. She’s got both Maori & Pakeha pointing things out to her & she still can’t see. One good thing from her Racist comments is , we are all talking as one apart from her !!
Gill Booth >>>Donna Pokere-Phillips If there is Privilege, there is a Duty to the less privileged, no matter your pigmentation.
Maori had no different structure than the West. Chiefs, hierarchy, nepotism, wise men, lineage struggles, greed, good governance, bad governance, war for defense, war for the sake of war, war for resources.
Let’s not kid ourselves Donna, under the skin basic human nature is no different when it comes to survival on this beautiful planet of ours.
Lorna Dejager
Wow I had mixed race parents, so I was raised to see attitude rather than colour. I’m white certainly NOT privileged as I’m now forced to live on a meger benefit BECAUSE a surgeon caused massive injuries to my body. So this is how as a medically injured disabled WHITE solo parent, chose to deal with my son’s bullies. If you still want to CALL white privilege bulling then you need to check yourself..
My non privileged white son at age 12, skinny and short for his age, told me, when he walks home from school, there are two same age but taller and well built Maori boys that would mock him and grab handfuls of plant material from peoples gardens and throw it at him, and he said Im not the only one they do it too mum. He was really scared and intimidated. So next day I Said ok I will pick you up from school and we will sit in the car and you tell me when these BOYS walk by. A few days later I was at the local shop before school when I dropped my son off, and saw these two boys, they were 12 but taller much bigger than me. So I tapped one of them on the shoulder and said ” hello, we need to talk, I believe you like to grab sticks and garden material and throw it at other kids when you walk home? He looked sheepish. I then said ” well here is the plan. Because I know you and your mate/brother do this to more than one child YOU don’t know who’s MOTHER I am, so I will be sitting in my car after school every day from now on, and I will follow you home and record you on my phone. Then I will knock on your parents door and tell them what cruel intimidating kids you are, and if it happens again I will ask the school to exclude you….. do you understand,? Have a nice day”. The bullying stopped. Not just for MY son BUT for every other kid black or white that these assholes chose to intimidate. bullies don’t focus on colour they just focus on Power and secret intimidation. Anyone who threatens exposure is considered the bad guy. But it’s now becoming apparent the bad guy is now the white person speaking up about Maori intimidation? Why is that? A bully is clearly a damaged person being exposed by their behavior needs to made public NO MATTER a person’s skin colour. if not then that is pure racism.
And before anyone questions my mixed heritage because im white skinned. this is a photo of my father (he is the little boy bottom right).
Lorna Dejager
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