Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Happy Race Relations Day https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=379463#post379463 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=379463#post379463 I was astonished this thread ended up here and was reluctant to address at the time it but as no one has:

Dear White People Please Stop Pretending Reverse Racism is Real

"Simply put, Morgan said reverse racism doesn’t exist and a person who claims otherwise is “outing themselves as…

]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:15:07 +1200 Rochelle Wilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371981#post371981 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371981#post371981 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:42:02 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371977#post371977 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371977#post371977 I arrived in NZ in January 1977, a real hot summer in Palmerston North...
Palmy was the big smoke when I was a kid. About a decade and a half prior to your encounter I was in the Square, on a family late night shopping trip. It was capping week,…

]]> Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:40:08 +1200 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371972#post371972 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371972#post371972 The timing of that attack is significant Rochelle.

Protesters occupied Bastion Point in January 1977 after the government announced a housing development on former Ngāti Whātua reserve land. The reserve had been gradually reduced in size by compulsory acquisition, leaving Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei holding less than 1 ha.

]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 18:24:07 +1200 Rochelle Wilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371967#post371967 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371967#post371967 Unpleasant racism lingers in the heart/memory when experienced by anyone.

I arrived in NZ in January 1977, a real hot summer in Palmerston North: such an amazing contrast to the grey freezing England I had left in December. I was walking up Rangitikei Street full of happiness when a group…

]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:56:18 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371966#post371966 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371966#post371966 superficial perceptions of the homogeneity of the hegemony are unlikely to have been challenged much

I remember back in high school we did a geography exercise looking at ancestry, and the all-white class was made up mostly of UK'ians, but with a significant leavening of Germans, Russians, Dutch, Yugoslavia, and…

]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:49:05 +1200 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371959#post371959 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371959#post371959 “but they all look the same” to Stats NZ’s “European” label – which is no more true than for the other (overly) broad clumpings in their poster.

That’s an excellent point linger.

What I’m assuming – as dangerous as that may be – is that based on NZ’s [[https://www.enz.org/migrants.html|major sources…

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:58:56 +1200 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371958#post371958 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371958#post371958 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:26:07 +1200 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371957#post371957 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371957#post371957 In my defence I’ve had a long time to think about it Russell, I saw it when it was first published, and I appreciated it the first time.

The second time I guess the collocation of “race relations” and “happy” wears a bit thin. Honestly I’d be rather more interested…

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:48:16 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371955#post371955 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371955#post371955 I liked this Vaughn, it’s well put and sincere, but I find it difficult to feel entirely comfortable with the experiences of ethnic minorities being presented through the portal of white. Obviously that’s not your fault – discussion point rather than criticism.

Given that the alternative is Vaughn remaining silent…

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:37:38 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371954#post371954 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371954#post371954 (Her name is Wong Liu Sheng)

Thanks, fixed.

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:34:45 +1200 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371953#post371953 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371953#post371953 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:30:49 +1200 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371950#post371950 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371950#post371950 no one of our 220 ethnic groups forms an absolute majority in present-day AucklandIn an exact sense, Vaughn’s claim is likely correct.
This extract from Statistics New Zealand’s 2013 census figures Auckland poster shows “59.3% European” – but also note “39.1% born overseas”, so that “European” label should not be…

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:32:30 +1200 Tze Ming Mok https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371946#post371946 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371946#post371946 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:30:34 +1200 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371942#post371942 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371942#post371942 A couple of years back, not long after we returned to NZ, the Mancunian owner of the biggest second hand shop in town came around to drop off some furniture we’d purchased. Sensing a kindred spirit he broke the ice with this advice; “Never employ a Māori woman”.

He waxed…

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:49:37 +1200 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371912#post371912 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371912#post371912 I liked this Vaughn, it’s well put and sincere, but I find it difficult to feel entirely comfortable with the experiences of ethnic minorities being presented through the portal of white. Obviously that’s not your fault – discussion point rather than criticism.

no one of our 220 ethnic groups forms…

]]> Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:40:29 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371911#post371911 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-happy-race-relations-day/?p=371911#post371911 Discussion from blog post.

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