This is allegedly the work of TV reporter Ali Akram. The singing is atrocious.
But goodness this is funny.
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I’ve removed this clip because this has caused great offence to many people in particular the people of Tuhoe. See Ana’s comment below and this story over at Te Kaea to understand why. While I don’t agree that this was intentionally denigrating to Tuhoe, in fact quite the opposite. And I have had enough interactions with Ali in the past to know that he is more than understanding of issues of tino rangatiratanga and the history of colonisation in Aotearoa. But it’s not up to me.
Watching this video again I can totally understand why it is seen as offensive. TV3 might be a bit confused and not sure about it cause it wasn’t their intention to offend. But nonetheless they should definitely pull this from their site (they won’t be able to pull it from the internet, too late for that now) and issue an unreserved apology. And it would be nice for Ali to visit. Knowing him he probably will if he’s invited.
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Got to disagree with you on this one sis, I found the video racist, offensive and patronising. Considering what Tuhoe have just recently gone through, its like laughing at their pain and the police invasion, brutality and human rights abuses that Tuhoe have been subject to. Not funny at all.
“It is especially important to note that this humour comes through (as a commenter on the TV3 site pointed out) Ikram’s galling juxtaposition of Tuhoe’s refusal to sign the treaty with their ability to “still receive the dole”. In other words, to take a pillar of the iwi’s strength (their inalienable right to their land, never ceded) and link it with a position of dependency on the government (receiving welfare, probably the greatest insult in protestant NZ possible). Of course, the irony is that the NZ Government is the real beneficiary, having taken lands from Tuhoe that did not belong to it, and which finance the agricultural economy to this day. Again, this juxtaposition only works for those who have no idea of the truth. The truth for me is that when I think of Tuhoe I think of a people of great cultural strength. When you know that strength you don’t f*** with it lightly. If Ikram doesn’t know that strength, he could use a visit and some education. If he does, I wonder if he is prepared for the consequences of his insult.
Let us be clear then that this video which divides those who are the target audience who will laugh at the video because of their feelings of vulnerability in relation to Maori, and their lack of knowledge of the truth; and those who are connected to Tuhoe who cannot laugh at it. It is, at a very basic level, undemocratic, divisive. It undermines everything the New Zealand nation-state should supposedly stand for.” Danny Butt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tino-rangatiratanga/message/23945
yeah I have to agree with Ana, when this vid/song started, I kind of laughed and smiled but as it continued I started to feel really sick, it’s a disgusting piece of racist crap.
sorry Kakariki, maybe something to do with all the other racist bullshit going down in Aotearoa (esp media) makes it more obvious over here at mo. The idea that Tuhoe/Maori are unemployed and lazy thats why they can hikoi/march to parliament and/or “how dare they take a day of work!” (I can hear those chains rattling), has been repeated again and again and again. Oh how bloody funny.NOT.
No need to apologise. I agree with most of the criticisms.
I just think the satire was too subtle. I think they were being exceptionally tongue in cheek when they were talking about taking the day off work. I mean, they showed all these images of white people taking a day off work and sitting around pissed at the Melbourne Cup.
But it didn’t work. Backfired horribly in fact. And I still hope to hear an apology from TV3.
Oh and come spend a day listening to australian media to see what racist media looks like!
Kia ora e hoa, your right the Strayalien press is a shocker, but even more worrying for our whanau in Aotearoa is this:
August 13, 2007
NEWSPAPER publisher APN News & Media began yesterday to outsource editorial production work, a plan that will be extended to five daily and three weekly newspapers by the end of the year, APN deputy chief
executive Rick Neville said.
The changes mean news editing and layout operations at the nation’s biggest daily, The New Zealand Herald, and a string of regional dailies will be done by an outside contractor, he said.
Mr Neville, who has led the editorial production re-engineering project for APN, said he was confident readers would not notice the difference in the papers’ editing and design.
He said although there was a lot of international interest in the project, “people will be sitting and making sure we can make it work
first”.
“I’ve got no doubt about it being a success,” he said.
APN is half-owned by Dublin’s Independent News & Media PLC, which publishes 175 newspapers and magazines around the world and operates
radio stations and outdoor advertising sites in Australia and New Zealand.
IN&M is owned by Irish businessman Tony O’Reilly, whose Irish newspapers are taking up the same editorial outsourcing strategy.
Mr Neville said 20 full-time sub-editors would work at contractor
Pagemasters New Zealand “operating on an extension of APN’s Cyber computer editorial production system” at a site 20 minutes from the editorial offices.
Pagemasters is a subsidiary of Australian Associated Press.
After six weeks, when all Herald editing and make-up had been transferred to Pagemasters, “we move to the Aucklander weekly … the Herald on Sunday … and in October we will start transferring to regional papers,” Mr Neville said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22232589-7582,00.html