Tuku Morgan is fired up about the backlash against te reo | 30 with Guyon Espiner Ep.8 | RNZ

If you want to speak Maori, speak Maori. If you do not want to speak Maori, do not speak Maori. What's the issue?

Corrupt ex politician are we meant to trust this clown

Racism is a big call… one that any Māori spokesperson’s continue to say when critiqued. The rest of our nation with all ethnic and race based needs works together for NZ, leave behind those that play a racism card or entitlement. Born in NZ you are NZ!

This interview is good, he aint scared to ask the important questions

I'm NZ born caucasian. When i was a young man, (30s), i attended night school where i learned Te Reo, because i had a lot of Maori mates and was genuinely interested in the language. More recently, approximately 6 years ago when i was 78yo and walking for exercise, midday in my suburb, i greeted a younger Maori man (stranger) in Te Reo in a friendly manner. 'Kia ora ehoa, ke te pe hea koe?" Well, he got really mad at me, swore profanely at me, called me 'Honky", and threatened me with violence, all the while i was protesting my innocence at not intending to offend him. He said he was 65yo. He tried to keep it going though i walked away. This was in a busy suburban street, lots of cars passing at the time. The guy was much smaller in stature than myself, so i did wonder what his problem was. This incident has given me cause to desist from using Te Reo language to anyone, ever since. I'm now 84yo. Robert. LH.

Pakeha have as many rights as Māori. We are all indigenous to earth. He is pedalling racism. Special treatment. Rights for some but not others based entirely on birth right. Almost like the British aristocracy ironically.

The perceived attack is not against Maori. Its against these elite gravy train passengers that are getting fat off the tax payer. And they continue to push that the average guy is a victim and cant be a maori without them being paid heaps.

No one is stopping Māori or other speaking Māori, most dead languages have died again when funding has been pulled. 12:08"The face of corruption apars in many forms" public money. He screams Racism making this a Māori/white issue. Europeans are only 70% of the population. With democracy we all have equal say as a people, our MMP gives a greater say to Māori than others with 7 guaranteed seats, currently 33 Māori are in parliament approximately 1 of every 4 MP's. in the population Māori are 1 in 5. Blatant racism at 24:13 & 24:42, threats at 26:07

How about Maori look after their selves regarding language ,health etc. Maori have a good financial setup now and can afford to help others and stop relying on NZ Government and taxpayers

Problems are global. We're all in this together. Time to abandon negative tribalism and lies.

Everyone is just trying to get by and get on with life.if you want to speak maori then get on with it and don't force it on people who don't care about it.its not up to the government to tell you how to be maori

I grew up in the UK, my ancestors were Welsh, Irish, English and Greek and probably some other stuff if we go way back thousands of years. Imagine if the Welsh part of me claimed ownership of who I am and added me to their numbers and tried to force me to learn their outdated culture and the old language that is only spoken in parts of Wales. This is what mixed race Maori are doing to each other. Its like a form of ethnic dictatorship forced on, or guilted and shamed into mixed race Maori who are trying to make their way in the world. If I was mixed race Maori I'd probably just say I'm a mixed race Kiwi and a member of the human race. Most of us are mostly a product of where we grew up. Its a shame the way race issues are going in New Zealand.

23:49 pay attention to Tuku Morgans reply. I would say this is at the heart of a lot of NZ's racial tension.

I''m Maori and get what he's saying we are losing the original ethnic indigenous race culture beliefs but it's only happened as many Maoris have married pakaha like my children who now are white to look at blue eye Maoris and because thousands of us Maoris love our pakaha husbands and wives we don't go against our white side and this has been lost through even my grandmother who was pure Maori married an Irishman so because we are so water down in our blood we now look at our Maori side as part we are not pure breed anymore so we all part white so it's come in today like David Seymour has mentioned we need to except as one and if you want to learn the Maori side of you do it with blessing but most today Maori know because we are not full blooded is to get on with our white side instead of blaming them for why we haven't made in life .

So please tell me, am I, as an immigrant to Aotearoa, only have the right to work and pay taxes, but not to have my voice and my rights here? Not sure what was meant by that statement. Do you see me here only as the source of labour, but not as a citizen, is that what it means to be secondary to Maori people? Please explain how do you see that type of relationship working. I do appreciate Maori culture and do want to be a supporter of it, but I cannot do that while being pushed on the other side. How do Maori people see my role in the society they want, if any, please?

He's a dinosaur and never been in the national eye other than with the underpants episode, that was so hilarious in the '90s.

True, TRue, TRUe, TRUE....

Pity Guyon has to waffle unintelligibly for the first 2-3 seconds but that's RNZ for you isn't it.

The unbending mindset is sowly fading OUT Matua Tuku thanks to social media and globalism. The world wants to see Māori language, Culture, and much more not another mini me Great Britain nation, people can get that anywhere. Sad most Kiwis don't realize that due to entitlement that has been afforded to them for almost 200 years, the new generation of Kiwis won't put up with it because their interests are all connected thru social media platforms, they realise they need each other to build this nation of Aotearoa NZ. Unlike pre internet Kiwis who were segregated in their way of thinking. Here comes the BOOOOOM GENERATION!

There will be hell to pay? We need to protect our culture? It's under increasing threat? We need to safeguard the future of our young ones? Yes I think we could say Tuku has captured the feelings of so many Pakeha New Zealanders extremely well. Well done.