HAMILTON, New Zealand -- An 80-year-old Maori man walked up to a statue of a colonial-era British naval commander one winter morning in 2018, a can of paint and a claw hammer in his hands."The red paint was to change the way he looked, and the hammer was to break his nose," said the man, Taitimu
HAMILTON, New Zealand — An 80-year-old Maori man walked up to a statue of a colonial-era British naval commander one winter morning in 2018, a can of paint and a claw hammer in his hands.
In September, Ardern announced that the national school curriculum would be changed to require lessons on the 19th-century New Zealand Land Wars, in which British troops killed more than 2,000 Maori. After Maipi’s vandalism, some New Zealanders called for the statue’s removal because of the role of Hamilton — for whom the city is named, though he never set foot there — in the deaths of Maori during the Land Wars, which raged from 1845 to 1872.
Other citizens — many of them older, white residents who wrote letters to the editor — complained about the damage to public property and argued that removing the statue would be akin to erasing history. Some used racist language. “It’s easy to brush them off as fringe,” he said, “but after Christchurch, we take hate speech more seriously.”
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