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Māori Issues

Māori Issues 240 the contemporary pacific • 32:1 (2020) racism is a serious problem in New Zealand and in more than one report White supremacy first arrived in had recommended constitutional Aotearoa, the home of Māori for more  transformation (Mutu 2019, 207). than one and a half millennia, in 1769 However, anything that could be per- when a group of Englishmen set foot ceived as a possible threat to the afflu- on a beach at Tūranganui-ā-Kiwa on  ence, privilege, and power that whites the East Coast and promptly shot the enjoy (Borell, Barnes, and McCreanor rangatira (leader) dead. The next day 2018) is deemed politically unaccept- they shot fifteen more tangata whenua able. Even a prime minister who is (people of the land). For these and relatively sympathetic to Māori and  many other Europeans, they wrongly has five Māori ministers in her cabinet  believed that their whiteness and their has been unable to make any measur- Christianity authorized them to travel able change to that attitude. That has the world and exterminate, enslave, not stopped Māori from continuing  and dispossess nonwhite non-Chris- to pursue our rights—with increasing tians (ecosoc 2010). Whites renamed support from the United Nations. the country to New Zealand and rede- In this year’s review, I will consider fined it for themselves. Two hundred the ongoing battle between Māori  fifty years later, white supremacy is and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Māori Issues

Mutu, Margaret
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 32 (1) – Apr 1, 2020
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240 the contemporary pacific • 32:1 (2020) racism is a serious problem in New Zealand and in more than one report White supremacy first arrived in had recommended constitutional Aotearoa, the home of Māori for more  transformation (Mutu 2019, 207). than one and a half millennia, in 1769 However, anything that could be per- when a group of Englishmen set foot ceived as a possible threat to the afflu- on a beach at Tūranganui-ā-Kiwa on  ence, privilege, and power that whites the East Coast and promptly shot the enjoy (Borell, Barnes, and McCreanor rangatira (leader) dead. The next day 2018) is deemed politically unaccept- they shot fifteen more tangata whenua able. Even a prime minister who is (people of the land). For these and relatively sympathetic to Māori and  many other Europeans, they wrongly has five Māori ministers in her cabinet  believed that their whiteness and their has been unable to make any measur- Christianity authorized them to travel able change to that attitude. That has the world and exterminate, enslave, not stopped Māori from continuing  and dispossess nonwhite non-Chris- to pursue our rights—with increasing tians (ecosoc 2010). Whites renamed support from the United Nations. the country to New Zealand and rede- In this year’s review, I will consider fined it for themselves. Two hundred the ongoing battle between Māori  fifty years later, white supremacy is and the

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