To Angela thanks for caring whitey, but no one allocated me or anyone I know second class citizen ship economically, socially or politically. In fact if you paid any interest to the facts rather than the statistics and your own dogma, you would know the exact opposite of your patronising is true. A lot of my whanau have chosen to take great fiscal advantage of the very special priveledges we call rights available to them purely because they are lucky enough to have some Maori ancestry collecting plenty of wealth having never worked for anyone but taxpayer funded Maori only organisations. Others who have not done so well are those who have chosen and then been trapped in the tar baby of benefit abuse and still others who have chosen both benefit abuse and crime. These are the ones who believe the hype from caring white individuals like your self who use words like hedgemony? I chose to simply work hard generally make sensable choices and expect nothing other than what I earnt like most kiwis. Choices, my choices your choices, we can choose to limit those choices by the way we act the way we dress the way we present ourselves the colour of my skin has never limited my choices. You want to see true racism look at how we kiwis treat our hard working Indian and Asian community. Their success is their own with all the cards stacked against them by our system. Our failure is our own with all the cards stacked in our favour the silly flag is just another side show.

To Angela thanks for caring whitey, but no one allocated me or anyone I know second class citizen ship economically, socially or politically. In fact if you paid any interest to the facts rather than the statistics and your own dogma, you would know the exact opposite of your patronising is true. A lot of my whanau have chosen to take great fiscal advantage of the very special priveledges we call rights available to them purely because they are lucky enough to have some Maori ancestry collecting plenty of wealth having never worked for anyone but taxpayer funded Maori only organisations. Others who have not done so well are those who have chosen and then been trapped in the tar baby of benefit abuse and still others who have chosen both benefit abuse and crime. These are the ones who believe the hype from caring white individuals like your self who use words like hedgemony? I chose to simply work hard generally make sensable choices and expect nothing other than what I earnt like most kiwis. Choices, my choices your choices, we can choose to limit those choices by the way we act the way we dress the way we present ourselves the colour of my skin has never limited my choices. You want to see true racism look at how we kiwis treat our hard working Indian and Asian community. Their success is their own with all the cards stacked against them by our system. Our failure is our own with all the cards stacked in our favour the silly flag is just another side show.

Good on you Jo. It is about time agitators/activists/ mommy boys, like Hone and wee willie, learn to negotiate without sticking their tongues out and offending the hard working TAXPAYERS of NZ. If it were not for the TAXPAYERS they most surely be fighting their own because it’s in their genes! An I agree with the Northern Maori as this flag "Hone's flag" as it represents his activist family.

As a pakeha kiwi I gladly welcome the news that the PM will fly the Tino Rangatiratanga flag.Do I think he's man enough to deal with what the flag signifies? Pffft,hardly. I understand the impact of dominant colonial hegemonic forces and how they shaped & continue to shape/promote our pakeha-based systems of law,education,communication,health and land ownership. And how this has led to inequitable outcomes for our treaty partners,the Tangata Whenua. Maori have been allocated second-class status economically, socially and politically, in their own country. Jo,if you didn't understand my English,then get an education.Can you afford to live in a decile 10 school zone?I can and do,the zoning system just one mechanism that locks the 'lower socio-economic' people out. White migrants to OUR country LOVE this. But Jo,what about the white snouts feeding off the trough too...or doesn't white-collar crime from the boys & girls in suits offend you? I must admit to being surprised myself that Rodney even HAS a girlfriend!But you can bet every dollar he paid back will be reclaimed when he files his income tax return. Do you realise Jo,every time the stock market goes up,some kiwi will have paid for it with their job. The only reason for the recession was corporate greed aided and abetted by those we elected to protect us from greed! Faye(he ain't no sir in my book) has a private beach he'll kick you off, bought and paid for by the asset-stripping in the 80's.Douglas returned to ensure Rogernomics doesn't get rolled back, lord help us all if Ruth Richardson tries to put in an appearance! (Check out her awful track record in Asia since we dumped her.) NZ is no longer (if it ever was) an egalitarian society. It is stratified and the proposed Tax law changes will only come into effect once the white-snouts have safely locked away their ill-gotten wealth. Pope John Paul the first said "we should not see it as charity when we give to the poor, instead we should see it as merely giving them back what was rightfully theirs"...read that in a book by David Yallop; the author who also wrote 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt'. No, I'm not a greenie,I think Bradford deserves a slap. And as for the Union Jack? The Scots,Irish and Welsh see it as a flag of oppression. The English themselves fly The Saint George Cross - if you don't believe me, go there when there's a football world cup on...The St George Cross is everywhere in England! Willie & JT? . . . finally give voice to what my ancestors and their forefathers hoped for.Partnership.They will teach this to their kids,grandkids as I will to mine. One day all our descendants will be bi-lingual, until then the fight will go on. Jo,you need to slap some SPF30 sunblock on that red neck of yours, otherwise the cancer will eat you.

What Maori flag ??? This is NOT The Maori flag , Maori has NO flag . This flag represent agitators , activist , NZ flag burners , spitters to the queen and all other no hopers and scum which have their brown snouts in the pakeha trough And you Willie Jackson , you have only your job because you're a Maori racist with very little intelligence and common sence