RODNEY HIDE: Blood Quantum
- Rodney Hide
- Jul 24, 2024
- 1 min read
ACT Leader David Seymour posts on X:
“Today in Parliament, Rawiri Waititi referred to a Government MP's 'blood quantum'. That's the dangerous and divisive idea that how much ‘Māori blood’ a person has in their body should matter.
If any other political party behaved in this way, they would lead the 6pm news.”
Blood quantum has saturated politics and government for years. The quantum has just been “one drop”.
I am guessing Mr Waititi would like the cut off to be Māori to be more than a drop. That’s his difference.
But the quantum is not the outrage. It’s the concept that’s offensive.
The outrage is that blood should matter at all.
But here in New Zealand it does. Today more than ever.
We have become a deeply racist country. Thanks government. Not just this government but every government for the last 50 years.
My blood has corpuscles, red ones and white ones. It has some gooey stuff too that dries up over a wound if I cut myself. It visits my heart for good kick along every so often. That's it, really.
National have announced they are focussing on the Seabed and Foreshore legislation. Well done National and well done those who made their voices heard. Of course, this should never have ever been an issue. New Zealand belongs to us all.
Any self-respecting Maori would find all this racial business rather condescending. Surely, anyone with half a brain would know that you can't turn the clock back, so if you think you're living in a white-man's world wouldn't you want to beat them at their own game?
Being a New Zealander means that you are a member of a small society composed of many ethnicities living under a system of rule, while not perfect, is certainly better than just about anywhere else.
Yes, governments for the last 50 years have followed the wrong path, but Jacinda has positively opened the flood gates to this racist stupidity.
We need to stop pandering to these activists, close down preferential treatment for these earlier…
Waititi is more dangerous than we all think. He is radicalising Maori young people and thus pushing us all towards civil war.