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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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 .

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.

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.

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?

As if old underwear Tuku had anything to clarify get real

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

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.

True, TRue, TRUe, TRUE....

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!

I think most pakehas don't believe or even have ever heard of a partnership. Three Waters changed that. What is Tukus vision for the future I wonder? Some radical new ideas coming and nz needs to be ready and open about it.

Gold-plated underpants... Could have fed many, but Tuku had a big ego.. What has changed ? No different to john tamihere the professional grifter and wannabe king.

How does anyone own the water that falls from the sky??

I respect everyone's language. Also, I don't impose my language on others. Respect goes both ways. Speak your language at home, like I do. English is a global language of communication. Questions?

I think we need a referendum. David Seymour is correct. We are all equal.

shocking. I've been living in the Waikato for 5 years now and Waikato-Tainui do stuff all to help their people. I stayed at the Novotel Hamilton Tainui one time went out onto Victoria Street early in the morning to find a cafe, noticed homeless on the street, a lot being Maori, do you now who were out there giving food away to these homeless Maori, no it wasn't Tainui, it was the immigrant Indian Sikhs. This guy loves to play the blame game, but from I see there are two sides of Maori in this country, the have's and the have not's & it's easier from for the have's to continue to blame, old white men, (racist comment) than for Tuku Morgan to stand in front of a mirror and ask himself the question, do Maori have a responsibility to themselves.... or are 65 year old white guys, like me, going to continue taking this type of BS, FOR EVER!

As usual Guyon good interview

"I had a false belief I thought I came here to stay We're all just visiting All just breaking like waves. Push me! Pull me! So if there were no angels would there be no sin? You better stop me before I begin But let me say: if I behave can you arrange a spacious hole in the ground Somewhere nice make it nice Where the land meets high tide. Push me! Pull me! Like a cloud dropping rain I'm discarding all thought I'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground I'm like an opening band for the sun. Push me! Pull me! Or Pull me out!" Eddy Vedder, pearl jam. A great song by a great guy and band, that sums up the futility of life for us mear mortals here on this ball of rock spinning around a star that rises and falls in the milky way galaxy. Our time here is limited yet we waste it arguing amongst our selves over material value and man made constructs, that of which we can not take with us when we finaly depart, I look at it this way. While we are here we are all custodians and with that should strive to do good, help your fellow man/woman, and leave this world in a beter state than we found it for those that will follow, regardless of your race, creed or religious leanings, we all bleed red, we are all or this earth and are the stuff of stars, solar beings, scientifically proven.

Languages die out , that’s just the way it is . Stone Age cultures died out , or were taken over that’s life . How many English would be around if Wakas paddled up the Thames 200 years ago . 😂

Thank God that ACT have enacted Charter Schools so that those that want to teach Te Reo and Maori culture can do so. No one is saying Te Reo Maori is irrelevant ... in global terms, if your view is global ... maybe English would be your first choice. There IS NO PARTNERSHIP detailed in the Treaty of Waitangi. Maori leaders ceded sovereignty and earned rights and duties of becoming British subjects for all people. The people who signed the Treaty maintained Rangatiritanga but this does not mean the Crown has to maintain their Rangatiritanga. I cannot help but think someone who repeats "... those white people" and proceeds to detail how they think and why they are wrong ... committing the logical fallacy CS Lewis called "Bulverism".

what rubbish Guyon (first 2 seconds) - do some research

Jacinda Adern's government undid all the gains for te reo over the preceding decades - their sledgehammer approach has done damage that will take years to undo. I was part of the promotion of te reo that Jacinda and her government undid.

Tuku survived Guyons corrosive questions, kia kaha Tuku, your noones fool

I love my reo Now i am learning Chinese.

You talk it tuku. But you'll have to keep english in your head because 90 % of us can't be fcked learning another language. Thats more important than your pride tuku.

Best way to protect Te Reo is to create a separate Parliament and make te reo Maori the first language

We don't embrace tradition and provincial culture. Transformation is future tradition and culture yet to exist. The past is the past and we don't want it.

Have they not realised that European values include freedom of conscience and thought, and no compulsion to think or speak in a particular way? In other words, force us to do something, and we will resist. Is it really Maorí values to force people to do things against their will? It seems so, sadly.

unfortuantely tuku is ill served by his punitive race baiting perspective and his demand we conform to his version of race conformity by us learning a stonseage language to some how redress historical grevience while we must subdue our curtural sense to appease his racist veiw

Who else knows it was Maori who forced the Government to ban Maori in schools ? the marker pen crowd never mention this

Kingitanga kotahitanga

He serves his wallet no one else

Maori net contribution to our economy is zero, in fact they are a massive burden.

Tuku playing the race card over his spending. He dined at the public trough on the tax payer and his whakapapa and then pulls the race card. Disgusting.

This country is Maori. If you don’t like it. Haere atu.

If it’s in English most of the world can understand it, it’s that simple. Especially government agencies, you want to speak te reo do it, if you don’t dont. No one is stopping you including this government.

What a load of bollocks.

Not allowed to speak Maori lets keep it that way 💯

Gave up after 2 minutes ... Do what you want, the treaty gifted Maori peace and the opportunity to develop, the same equal opportunity. And essentially elitist Maori in their $89 undies has failed to convert the good faith contributions of NZ tax payers funds into the basis of success for their young people.

What a clown

Good on you matua Te reo ki te ao its here and it will never leave !!!

Funny interview funny the old white guys remember what new Zealanders all knew from 1860

We know what color undies Morgan wears.

Another trougher

Tuku go and buy some new underpants - this time from your own money!

Was it the academics in Universities who invented all these thousands of new Te Reo Maori words in recent decades? I would love to know. Too many words to be a natural evolution.

Why don't we ever bring up the fact that the written Māori language uses the Latin alphabet? Written Māori has such a colonial influence its not funny? I'm all for Māori culture and rights.. But is Te Reo explicitly Māori culture? I feel like its a Hybrid of both Pakeha and Māori culture. - Not to say it is any less important for that reason. Its quite nice that we have a shared language. This refers to written Te Reo specifically. Traditional Māori, if that exists still? Spoken by mouth, not written in Latin script is obviously something I think should be preserved. Not so much this colonized form. Maybe im just clutching at straws though🤣

23:49 question he’s right. Immigrants or any new citizens don’t or shouldn’t have the benefits that Maori get. Even pakeha have those benefits. Maori and pakeha signed that in 1840, not 5 minutes ago like how long most these immigrants have lived in New Zealand. Mr Seymour trying to get the votes by giving these things to non New Zealanders. If the prime minister doesn’t watch out immigrants will out number pakeha population aswell lol. Then use New Zealand as a loop hole to get into Australia and make it harder for actual New Zealanders wanting to make the Aussie move. Maori or pakeha don’t get benefits in these countries where most of these immigrants come from, to be honest no one wants to go there at all.

Winston is part of a generation of maori who were shamed about being maori, a generation that was forced to forget themselves, forget who they are, forget where they came from, forget their language, forget their culture, forget their heritage, forget everything and assimilate into European society because only European society has a future, which is Ironic because European society is the old world. The British Empire is no longer the world superpower it was back in the 1800's and early 1900's. Maori have gone from being scared of who they are, we've gone from shamed and quiet, to now embracing our culture, embracing our Reo, embracing WHO WE ARE. The problem is, we now have to get the Government to see Maori as equals. Clearly we are still a long way from being equal. NZ is STILL a racist nation.

What about luxton lied. on his cv

I don't want to speak mari Because it not something I want to speak Chinese Italian French etc. are a living language Mari language will be gone for ever

Co-governance is in the treaty. Brits replaced rangatiratanga (run by local chiefs) into sovereignty (run by UK royals). The treaty house was set on fire but the treaty document still exists showing the details along with its burnt frayed edges. We've tried the colonial system for a hell of a long time and now is the time to give the actual documented deal a fair go.

Most languages spoken today will disappear over the next 100 years. Maori can save their own language, but even they dont want too.

Instead of taking aim at the goverment to enforce te reo on the masses, how about you push it on Maori first. Only 25% of Maori speak te reo fluently. Pakeha simply will not take te reo seriously unless Maori do. Blaming the government is a cope out

He mihi nui ki te Rangatira e Tukoroirangi Morgan. Kua mahia te mahi mo tona whanau hapu iwi. Tehei mauri ora.

What a load of. This is just a load of bs. No one will stop maori (part) from learning te Reo. I don’t want to learn it, don’t want it forced down my throat and for me it’s a waste of time. He talks of real maori, there are none as most have less than 50% maori ancestry. There is no partnership in the treaty. It states clearly maori ceded sovereignty to the crown and would be treated equally

He communicates Māori water rights well here. I think there’s been a major failure in the dialogue around this.

Maybe Te reo would be more accepted if its not forced down our throat, cant speak it, don't wanna speak it, stop changing small town names to something no one can prononce. They added an "H to my city to make it pronounced Fonganui not Wanganui....keep maori language for maori, leave us out of it. If anybody wants to learn it, there are many courses and over funded universities that will teach you. They are proud to be maori, let me be proud not to be.

Tuku , You are well past you used by date .

one people , one country , unity in Diversity , Tuku is pushing the Victimization on to the youth of Aotearoa , he has no choice , This is garbage , Racism is a mind set .

Old * Underpants Morgan * ((remember that. used company credit card to buy Flashy Underpants ). Another grifter. Only there for Himself. Esponer. Another woke interveiwer