I have spent 40 or 50 years writing the same points below, over and over again - but the world of most politicians, various authors, gravy train beneficiaries, etc., do not wish to listen, doing so at the expense of the population, enslaving many with falsities and ill health. There is just so much more that can be added to the items below. We are moving onwards.
The word 'māori' (pre Colonialism) meant 'ordinary' or 'common', therefore all of the country's ethnicities today are 'māori' anyway! There are not two human species!
The name Māori came into use 8 or 10 years after the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi when native peoples of many different origins were lumped under the same banner. Rather like the many hundreds of different peoples native to North America becoming grouped as 'Indians', to deliberately confuse their origins. That is what Imperialism does.
'English' is a universal language, not a race of people.
It is the divide-and-rule nature of Colonialism (Imperialism) that creates any Māori / Pakeha division, and if you take away the blaming / victimhood aspect of 'they did this to us', then you see both (although there is only one) doing the same thing! The Earthly carnal intellectual side of human nature, worse when it is collective and political, suppressing the people. Promoting 'race' [divide] as a tool or proxy, to keep the money rolling in for the administration [rule]. Maybe it would be better to rephrase 'divide-and-rule' to 'divide-and-administer'. It is a spiritual cannibalism, and the love of money the driving force.
In the 1840's Governor Grey with and his associates had 'friendly natives', and the Northern missionaries and other folk that Grey dealt savagely with, had 'friendly natives'.
So The Waitangi Treaty in 1840 was NOT based upon race! more here A page and a half long, and written about the late 90's about some events in 1840's. The story hasn't altered.
It astounds me the number of unlearned (so called 'experts') who quote articles from early history, who use the name 'Māori' in the place of 'native', 'New Zealander' or similar.
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