"Our government has signalled changes to the plan, including a reduced focus on institutional racism and colonial racism against Māori, which would render the plan pointless as all instances of personal racism result from the institutional racism of our society," Ngata said.
Uhh, what? What absolute nonsense is this?
Honestly, this whole thing feels like the forum getting the pip because we weren’t making this all about them, and taking their ball and going home.
And then there’s Bullshit like this.
Maori aren’t the only group in NZ on the receiving end of racist behaviour.
It was the original plan until this government decided how much focus there was going to be was “none”, which is why Iwi Chairs have pulled out
Bear in mind, this got started in the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attacks, which was the actions of a single person against a minority group.
It wasn’t originally about institutional racism at all.
Yes it was. See the numerous references here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2017/08/committee-elimination-racial-discrimination-examines-report-new-zealand
This is from the UN committee that recommended the action plan in 2017, which the RNZ article also mentions