A few months ago, I was in an audience watching a Haka-Kapa and as I watched children dance and sing and sway and shout and beat, I couldn’t help but think “The Haka represents the best of us.”
Gerry’s ‘rolling of the eyes’ was such a show of disrespect, the look on his face though realising he had lost all control of the House was priceless. Did the Seymour really expect the Opposition and especially TPM to just sit there and take this. This is the best thing I have seen in Parliament is years, the gallery standing and joining in solidarity, as we all must.
I found this post particularly poignant as just last week I was at tangihanga for my daughter in law and her unborn moko of Ngatai Whatua descent. A deeply tragic loss for all the whanau but the Tangata Whenua process of grieving and farewell is so very very therapeutic. My other four mokos are steeped in kapa haka and their school did them proud with waiata and haka. There was also a powerful haka performed at the graveside by just two men. As Tangata Te Tiriti we were embraced and comforted by Te Ao Maori - why should I stand for any dilution of that by the machinations of Seymour et al. Quite simply I won't stand for it!
Yesterday’s haka was magnificent. Opposition speeches were passionate and logical but TPM really ‘took it’ to Seymour - we all owe them our gratitude. The icing on the cake was the obvious impotence of Gerry, bet he was a crap teacher too…
The look on Gerry Brownlee's face when Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke stands up says it all. He knew, we ALL knew, that Te Pāti Māori would challenge the reading of this Bill. Brownlee's expression is arrogance personified.
Huge thanks to you for all the hard work, not least in sewing together exactly the clips I spent so long looking for in vain yesterday. You star. And Viva Chloe, well done, gal!
These few days have been intense . . . emotions running high, hearts spilling over. And still, to look at Seymour's smug, self-satisfied face, somehow a looming feeling that this really ain't over yet . . .
They are working hard, and I called early in the year around February that these types of anti-Maori rights battles would be coming - so they are well prepared and moneyed up. There are many astrosurfers working the internet to spread lies and division - so it's true that the country is up against not a small matter.
National are now conclusive they will vote it down. But movements like this are about creating a cohort of people so that their future efforts can succeed - that is the nefarious nature of such actions and activities. It creates more who think like them - and it's an extraordinary opportunity for Atlas Network, Hobsons Pledge and the like to enact their agenda.
Still, we can't lose hope and we can only each do what we can while maintaining space and balance too - for sanity I mean!
Well done MT! You have expressed the essence of what real Kiwis feel about the Haka. It’s ours! It unites us!
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Gerry’s ‘rolling of the eyes’ was such a show of disrespect, the look on his face though realising he had lost all control of the House was priceless. Did the Seymour really expect the Opposition and especially TPM to just sit there and take this. This is the best thing I have seen in Parliament is years, the gallery standing and joining in solidarity, as we all must.
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I found this post particularly poignant as just last week I was at tangihanga for my daughter in law and her unborn moko of Ngatai Whatua descent. A deeply tragic loss for all the whanau but the Tangata Whenua process of grieving and farewell is so very very therapeutic. My other four mokos are steeped in kapa haka and their school did them proud with waiata and haka. There was also a powerful haka performed at the graveside by just two men. As Tangata Te Tiriti we were embraced and comforted by Te Ao Maori - why should I stand for any dilution of that by the machinations of Seymour et al. Quite simply I won't stand for it!
Yesterday’s haka was magnificent. Opposition speeches were passionate and logical but TPM really ‘took it’ to Seymour - we all owe them our gratitude. The icing on the cake was the obvious impotence of Gerry, bet he was a crap teacher too…
The look on Gerry Brownlee's face when Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke stands up says it all. He knew, we ALL knew, that Te Pāti Māori would challenge the reading of this Bill. Brownlee's expression is arrogance personified.
Toitū te Tiriti ❤️ 🤍 🖤
Huge thanks to you for all the hard work, not least in sewing together exactly the clips I spent so long looking for in vain yesterday. You star. And Viva Chloe, well done, gal!
These few days have been intense . . . emotions running high, hearts spilling over. And still, to look at Seymour's smug, self-satisfied face, somehow a looming feeling that this really ain't over yet . . .
They are working hard, and I called early in the year around February that these types of anti-Maori rights battles would be coming - so they are well prepared and moneyed up. There are many astrosurfers working the internet to spread lies and division - so it's true that the country is up against not a small matter.
National are now conclusive they will vote it down. But movements like this are about creating a cohort of people so that their future efforts can succeed - that is the nefarious nature of such actions and activities. It creates more who think like them - and it's an extraordinary opportunity for Atlas Network, Hobsons Pledge and the like to enact their agenda.
Still, we can't lose hope and we can only each do what we can while maintaining space and balance too - for sanity I mean!