Thread by @DeanbAdam

Appreciate there's a tension in my view here, but I really believe this base education of tau iwi, or at least the heavy lifting needs to be done by senior or experienced tau iwi from the sector, not Māori. It needs Māori governance to ensure the pace and direction is right, and

https://twitter.com/JacquieKidd1/status/1491146546406367232

The voice of Māori should be from Māori but do we seriously expect the effort and energy for decolonisation to come from those most impacted by colonization? #BeGoodTiritPartners

I always like the analogy of a regular interpersonal relationship, cause most of us are familiar with them. But imagine you've moved in with someone you love. They've been in a long term abusive relationship and still carry trauma. Their house is battered and damaged from the

violence. You havent been violent, but don't always understand why they react how they do, this makes you frustrated and sometimes angry and you see their fear and it feeds your frustration... So you want to be a good partner, do you a) demand they sort themselves out.. and clean

The place up while they're there? b) moan about how hard this is for you and how lucky they are to have you and why aren't they grateful? c) support them to heal (recognizing they'll need you for part of that journey and sometimes they need to do it alone), get their direction..

and help fix the house (and clean up after yourself while you do), get help to understand what it's like to come from and recover from an abusive relationship, while appreciating this never centre's you as an expert over your partner, get support for managing your emotions..

I know this is a narrow analogy that misses a lot of the history of colonization, trauma to ancestors, the attitudes of wider society. However, the basis of partnership in that there is work to each do as well as work to do together is solid in most #TiritiKorero and #DecolMahi

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