Dear Sir
I heard you say on RNZ morning report Oct 2, that the first person killed (Te Maro) upon arrival of HMB Endeavour was murdered. Standard accounts of this killing describe self-defence, which no reasonable person would call murder. Having been previously mayor of Gisborne for a decade you are presumably familiar with PC scholar A. Salmond (Two Worlds p.125), who suggests Te Maro’s detachment may have been only posturing, but even this biased racist admits the seamen could have had no such idea and were right to think they were in imminent danger of being speared.
Salmond does not try on the ‘murder’ lie. Te Maro led a group of four armed warriors who charged a similar number of boys guarding key boats. Warning shots overhead were understandably ignored; only when Te Maro was about to launch a spear at short range was he shot. You deny this was self-defence.
The title Race Relations Conciliator so admirably established by Sir Guy Powles has evidently been superseded. You announce in your Wikipedia entry that racist exclusion from beaches is OK at least for a region where those excluded will be a mere non-Maori minority. And then within a week after you take up your appointment, you broadcast to the nation this mischievous falsehood, fanning the flames of the neo-racism of the Harawira gang, the Jackson Five, the Nairns, etc.
You have amply shown yourself unfit and should, therefore, resign the position which you have already betrayed.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/10/gisborne-history-the-re-write/ https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/09/raybon-khans-humourous-tweet-contains-an-uncomfortable-truth/
