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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 21. 5th September 1973

A Fairy Tale for NZ Children

A Fairy Tale for NZ Children

Dear Sirs,

"Wake up Whitey" they cried, but Whitey wouldn't wake up. He kept on dreaming his "We are one people" dream. That oppressed a people. So one day they stole his "we are one people" dream and split it down the middle with an axe. And because there were now two peoples in whiteys world, and all the power belonged to those who spoke both the brown and white language, whitey was left — culturally disadvantaged. And would you believe it, they had to put whitey in a special class with a special programme for the culturally deprived. And every time whitey said, "but we are one people" a great big stick would hit him on the head and say "there's some who's ya can't change what's in their heads, ya gotta change the shape of their heads" and that was Tama.

Will whitey make it? Read on next week with "Whitey wake up".

Na Makariwhi