‘The Waitangi Tribunal has released a scathing assessment of the Crown’s performance on te reo Maori in the last 25 years, recommending urgent action to halt the decline of the language.
Led by presiding officer Justice Joe Williams, the tribunal has taken the unusual step of releasing a single chapter of an upcoming inquiry report.
In the report, the tribunal says the Government has underperformed in its duty to protect te reo Maori and the language is now approaching crisis point.’ source
If maori want to preserve a language spoken by .000000000000000000000001% of the world’s population, then how about they take responsibility for that themselves? Nowhere in the Treaty of Waitangi–that they’re so fond of invoking when it suits them–is there any mention of the Crown’s responsibility to preserve their language. There are plenty of maori organizations which have grown fat off the backs of taxpayers….what are they doing to preserve their precious bloody language? And why the hell should my tax dollars–which already fund a vast population of racist bludgers, leeches and lowlifes be further raided for this wankfest?
