You don’t just sign up for courses any more. You have to sell yourslef and have some group if you can back you.

I suppose these are the good things that groups in the community are tyring to work as a team to understand and offer the community.

Oh well, better to learn these things.

Thats what smart is,,

I guess you and me will have to agree that we disagree with each other.
My son is Maori but that didn’t prevent him from going to university and paying his own way.He got no help or privileges because he is Maori.He worked in orchards picking fruit to get the money to achieve his aim.
He wasn’t prepared to sit back in a queue and complain that he was hard done by.

I am lost as to how you are reading what I have written.

First off. I am not upset with what the Maori are doing. I think personally that they do a lot for the people and for students. And here in West Auckland they are mainstream. They are not pro one group over another. They help all groups.

I don’t know if you remember a post I did on John Tamihere. I am a big fan of his. Now he will tell your son, my son and everyone else’s son to get off their backside and work for what they want.

Secondly,

I shouldn’t have to make an appointment with John Tamihere to fight for my son as a Maori.l I shouldn’t have to question Unitec as to lying to the public. I shouldn’t have to to jump further hoops than others because of the colour of my skin.

I shouldn’t have to be onto the discriminative behaviour of Government. I should be allowed to live as a person in fair world.

I am tired of fighting the system. And I am angry that the system promotes dishonesty. I want to be honest.

What does that say to you? How do you and I disagree on this?

Do you read what I am saying as I SHOULD have to play the Maori card?

I am not saying that. I am saying that everything was done right. We were up there at around the 40th person to sign up. But somehow we ended up on a waiting list. And what is fair is irrelevant. What is funded for is. What color you are is preferential. What gender you are is preferential.

In case you’re thinking that my daughter in law is an irresponsible parent for letting her son stay with his father who has a drug habit.Rest assured,he is well looked after by his grand parents.

I would never think that. I don’t see Grandparents raising Grandchildren being against the parents seeing their children even though many have problems.

Plus I know people still with addictions and I have been there too. It doesn’t make you less of a person just an ill person.

I don’t know if women are smarter than men but what I do know is that they are alot more devious.

Hehehe. Yes, I do agree with this.

I do know that woman are intelligent. And clever at things as you had explained earlier. But I think we are not being intelligent to let the radical feminists have their way. And I am not too keen on social science either or anything that takes away our freedom. We are not getting all the facts to make a sound, smart, intelligent opinion.