"You know they have suffered as a result of New Zealand's ignorance of who they are, where they came from and their history."
The version of events surrounding this issue appears to still be divided. Long it has been used as an apologists argument to support ‘natural selection’ process within New Zealand. Argument going something like this: “Don’t witter on the injustice of European occupation of New Zealand over the Maori when you did exactly the same, and worse, to the Moriori centuries before.”
Obviously, using one genocide to argue and debate another is nonsense.
What is past is passed. To be ashamed of, or defend, the decisions and culture of our ancestors is counter-productive. So says I:
- A member of the British Empire, whose people slaughtered ‘ savage natives’ across every continent in the world.
- An Englishman whose people drove the Scots and Irish into famine of the mid 1800’s.
- Whose fore-fathers shed French blood for 100 years through the use of the longbow of the 13th and 14th centuries.
- Of Saxon decent, trampling Picts, Celts and Britons in our bid to reach the ‘western sea’.
- Of Roman decent, whose ancestors conquered the known world and tried desperately to destroy the Christian faith in blood sports of the arena.
- I am of Homosapien decent, whose descendants out thought, out fought, and out lived the Neanderthal people.
Let us move forward together, having taken the greatest gift our history has to offer...
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” George Santayana
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