ACT Leader David Seymour posts on X:
“Today in Parliament, Rawiri Waititi referred to a Government MP's 'blood quantum'. That's the dangerous and divisive idea that how much ‘Māori blood’ a person has in their body should matter.
If any other political party behaved in this way, they would lead the 6pm news.”
Blood quantum has saturated politics and government for years. The quantum has just been “one drop”.
I am guessing Mr Waititi would like the cut off to be Māori to be more than a drop. That’s his difference.
But the quantum is not the outrage. It’s the concept that’s offensive.
The outrage is that blood should matter at all.
But here in New Zealand it does. Today more than ever.
We have become a deeply racist country. Thanks government. Not just this government but every government for the last 50 years.