So, if we’re going to address racism, that means addressing all forms of racism, even when it occurs in our own communities.” Whakaaro Māori The same white supremacist thinking that led to the terrorist attack in Christchurch also leads to Māori babies being uplifted, also leads to us being overrepresented in the justice system and these types of things. Rata says there seems to be a really artificial separation between issues that affect Māori and issues that affect other racialised communities, "when in fact racism affects us all.
We need to strengthen our legislation around hate crime and hate speech, and we need to resource communities to be able to keep ourselves safe.” So what we need to do is work together to build community relations. Because, although they see the state as having failed them, leading to this awful tragedy, they haven’t been calling for increases in surveillance, and all these extra resources that we know would be directed by the state against our black and brown communities. "Use this is as a moment where we can listen to Muslim brothers and sisters and what they’re calling for, and work in solidarity with what they’re trying to achieve. Rata says that after the terror attacks on Christchurch there was an enormous outpouring from Māori showing support for the community that was affected there "but then we also see in light of your recent story that there are very strong racist views within our communities as well, so this provides us an opportunity to reflect on that racism that exists within our own communities. The story, published yesterday, received an overwhelming amount of unsympathetic comments from Māori and Pākehā, such as, "If you don't like it, leave", and, "welcome to our world". But the story received a brutal backlash on Te Ao online. The story gave voice to an advocate for the Muslim community who felt his community had been ignored during the Royal Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attacks, and that racism persists.
"So part of our own efforts towards decolonisation means unlearning some of those things because we can’t decolonise the country without getting rid of racism.” Xenophobia is a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.ĭr Arama Rata says, “Xenophobia and racism are learnt, they’re not something that we’re born with but, because this is a settler-colonial country, we’ve been brought into this white supremacist thinking, and so white supremacy absolutely operates in Māori communities just as it operates in all communities Following a story by Te Ao with an advocate for the Muslim community, there was an outpouring of anti-Muslim and anti-foreigner comments online.ĭr Arama Rata works in the area of race relations and decolonisation and shared with Te Ao her thoughts on prejudice held by Māori towards immigrants, and how Māori can better understand their role in race relations in Aotearoa.
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