tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post1617639005162816104..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: "Home Town Boy": What Jerry Collins’s Homecoming Can Teach The Left About Pasifika New Zealanders.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-29995828763625838642015-06-24T08:57:46.056+12:002015-06-24T08:57:46.056+12:00Way to politicise everything.
Also, what is 's...Way to politicise everything.<br />Also, what is 'spirituality'? A serious question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28201338191820186092015-06-23T15:55:37.670+12:002015-06-23T15:55:37.670+12:00An interesting article by some perfesser about wha...An interesting article by some perfesser about what the Labour Party should be in today's Dominion Post I notice. Very short on specifics I also noticed. Vague as only an arts perfesser can be. (Not to say that they're all like that, but I've had vast experience with them in my time.)Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-91810900120259827642015-06-23T15:35:03.857+12:002015-06-23T15:35:03.857+12:00The people remembering Jerry Collins had passion a...The people remembering Jerry Collins had passion and gathered to express it. Whereas pakeha NZs seem to have lost their passion, become milk-sops gazing inward at themselves on their cellphones. Talking their talk, but mostly about themselves, or if not mind matters then its body matter, face, tattoos, naked body. <br /><br />Passion for someone working physically, hard, succeeding? Nah, selfies are more interesting. We have lost our pioneer blood, and its grit. Like a British card I saw. 'Happy birthday to a true British (NZ) guy, 30% warm blood, 70% hot tea.' <br /><br />The only people in NZ with a vision of the ordinary people's greatness, potential and betterment, are those with the grit of Maori and Pacific Islanders. The apathetic pakeha just watch and moan at each individual failure but can't see the pattern, as the country deteriorates.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-77628855150117400012015-06-23T12:13:22.786+12:002015-06-23T12:13:22.786+12:00Chris,
A very astute comment. And very nicely don...Chris,<br /><br />A very astute comment. And very nicely done, both for Jerry Collins, and for the Porirua and Pasifika community.Wayne Mapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12906396523791648270noreply@blogger.com