Dominion Post Refuses to Print ACT Anti-Racist Advert
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@SteveWrathall That's a story yes.
Lord Normanby's breif to Hobson about land to be purchased by the crown: "the price to be paid to the natives by the local Government will bear an exceedingly small proportion to the price for which the same lands will be re-sold by the Government to the settlers, nor is there any real injustice in this inequality."
Normanby's brief provided the framework for Hobson's 'treaty'; this method was the approved way to acquire land in Aotearoa.
Who r the sharks?
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Interesting British perspective.
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A Historian at Archives NZ pointed out to me that even tho Maori were granted all the rights of British subjects under the treaty, there was also a clause stating that all land transactions had to go thru the Crown.
But British subjects can sell their worldly possessions to whomever they choose; why couldnt Maori? and were there other cases of legality discriminating against Maori?
Was there ever really 'One Law for all'??
DJRU2 7 months ago
@DJRU2 This clause was (as it turns out) a very short-term measure to protect Maoris from land sharks. A reading of the Treaty in totality reveals a document with equal rights at its core. The real 1840 Treaty, that is. Not the fake one that was invented in the 1980s that has the word "partnership" in it.
SteveWrathall 7 months ago