OPINION: Trevor Richards, once famous as the driving force behind Halt All Racist Tours, recently wrote an essay in which he reflected on the history of New Zealand race relations. We learned little about Maori history at school and the Maori world only occasionally overlapped with that of white New Zealand. Richards went on to deride what he clearly regarded as a smug belief that New Zealand enjoyed the best race relations in the world. Dominion-Post Trevor Richards, left, was at the vanguard of the Halt All Racist Tours moment. But at what point do we realise we’ve over-corrected and created a society where racial division is permanently built in and officially sanctioned?

Source: Stuff May 27, 2020 17:05 UTC