Stop forcing Māori bullshit on everyone

Tom Phillips was a white Kiwi, not some tikanga prop

When Tom Phillips died, Ngāti Maniapoto rushed to the scene in their petrol-powered wakas to perform a karakia. This was a absolutely pointless. Tom was a white Kiwi bloke. No one asked for Māori spirituality to be wrapped around his death. Mana whenua do not own grief. Communities can mourn without someone else’s cultural theatrics being imposed being …