I have mad respect for these warriors in New Zealand.
People of color across the world must never be silent -or silenced- when white oppressors try to gaslight their communities.
Same for my sisters and brothers in the United States.
The youngest member of New Zealand’s parliament, Māori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, started a haka to protest the first vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.
The parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after the protest.
First signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs, the Treaty of Waitangi lays down how the two parties agreed to govern. The interpretation of clauses in the document still guides legislation and policy today.
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It is an indescribable honor and deeply humbling to be sworn in as the next Congresswoman of Texas’ 18th Congressional District. Standing here today, I proudly take the place of my mother, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee,
‘At the beginning we made it clear if the takeover had to happen we wanted Mike Miles to succeed. Kids' futures at failing campuses depended on it. We also implored him to build trust w/teachers, parents & community.
At almost every turn, he failed’
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