I should be outraged by this story... but instead I feel sorry for people who have opted to play the race card rather than address the real health problems that challenge them:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/3004976 ... ne-rollout
This guy seems upset that old white people (65+) got vaccinated ahead of Maori aged under 65. He believes that because Maori aged 50-64 had the same risk profile as the over-65 whities and therefore should have been vaccinated at the same time.
He's also bitching young (tamariki) Maori should be given top priority in the next vaccine roll out, presumably at the expense of other races.
Perhaps there is some truth to what he says when he points out that Maori are more likely to suffer the worst effects of CV19 but from what I've been able to find out, it's not because of the colour of their skin or their ethnic origins.
If Dr Rawiri Taonui is upset by the fact that Maori haven't been given racial privilege in the CV19 vaccination programme and are therefore more likely to appear in the hospitalisation statistics then perhaps he should be speaking to Maori, not those who I'm sure he believes are exercising their "white privilege".
Perhaps Dr Taonui's time would be better spent inviting Maori to drop the habbits and practices that predispose them to the co-morbidities that complicate a CV19 infection. Type II diabetes is perhaps one of the biggest of these and it is 100 percent preventable, by simply enjoying a healthy level of kilojoules rather than an excess -- and by engaging in a reasonable amount of exercise, such as walking or even gardening if you're a bit older.
The fact that Maori are grossly over-represented in the smoking stats is also something that Dr Taonui would be better addressing, rather than blaming Maori's problems on the fact that our response to the pandemic has not been racist enough for him.
I have to believe that he honestly didn't notice these things because to think, for even a moment, that he really wants a New Zealand which makes its policies based on race and skin colour would be too much to contemplate.