Oh that’s crazy, almost as if there was systemic oppression and injustice and rampant racist laws and police and policies for hundreds of years and that it still hasn’t fully ended because people can be absolutely horrible to each other over something as trivial as skin color.
I would love to see the comparison to people in other countries to prove that point. Because the racists will look at the headline and go “yep, because they don’t work hard, blah blah blah”, but it is actually the residual effects of slavery and racism that persist to this day in every single aspect of our society. From laws, to police, to medicine, to jobs, to housing, to finance, to our language to the damn foods we have. It is insane and the racists will proudly and wrongly stand up and declare that racism ended with slavery.
The median net wealth of European people was $114,000, more than three times that of the Asian population ($32,000), five times that of Māori ($23,000), and nine times greater than Pacific people ($12,000).
Much of the colonialism of NZ was modeled from the US-Indigenous colonialism, we didn’t have chattel slavery though. Which could explain the magnitude of the gap in Ma. compared to NZ.
Oh that’s crazy, almost as if there was systemic oppression and injustice and rampant racist laws and police and policies for hundreds of years and that it still hasn’t fully ended because people can be absolutely horrible to each other over something as trivial as skin color.
I would love to see the comparison to people in other countries to prove that point. Because the racists will look at the headline and go “yep, because they don’t work hard, blah blah blah”, but it is actually the residual effects of slavery and racism that persist to this day in every single aspect of our society. From laws, to police, to medicine, to jobs, to housing, to finance, to our language to the damn foods we have. It is insane and the racists will proudly and wrongly stand up and declare that racism ended with slavery.
Similar in NZ, figures from 2015.
Much of the colonialism of NZ was modeled from the US-Indigenous colonialism, we didn’t have chattel slavery though. Which could explain the magnitude of the gap in Ma. compared to NZ.