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so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them to it.”

Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“

Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk. Just when you thought-“

JACK Tame (not John) in fact is a pakeha (white guy) and that’s part of what makes his entire response so great.

Jack was one of the first in NZ to include a lot of te reo Maori in his role as a journalist, something which has become much more commonplace now in our mainstream news media (and hopefully only improving).

Here is a video discussing his use of te reo Maori in his role on Breakfast (where the clip above came from)

As Ngahiwi Apanui of the Maori Language Commission states in the video, it is relevant that Jack, a ‘white guy’, is using this language, thereby expanding the audience it reaches and normalising it.

We like to pat ourselves on the back in NZ for being *so* super liberal and wonderful (how do you indicate sarcasm?), but we are deeply racist and there are many, many white people who still push back against the use of te reo (or even just the correct pronunciation of place names which already carry Maori names), so it means something to hear language like this from a ‘white guy’.

a friend of someone I know went missing!

if you live in California and have any info that could help, call the number above

please reblog this even if you don’t live in Cali, it helps to just get the word out

26-year-old Jamarion Robinson’s grandmother Beverly Nixon said her grandson was bipolar and schizophrenic. Still got shot 76 (!!!) times. Would a white person get the same treatment?

The witness said he saw more than a dozen patrol cars at the complex where US Marshals killed Robinson on August 5, 2016. Why were there no behavioral specialist? Surely one of them would know how to interact with a bipolar schizophrenic better than the police.

I’m absolutely disgusted.

Here’s Jamarion’s mother’s GoFundMe in case anyone is willing to help.