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       Shane Jones calls out tutors teaching Māori youth anti-government haka
        
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       The Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua o Aotearoa was won by a coalition of Rotorua
       schools, Ngā Kura Kaupapa o Te Puku o te Ika, followed by Auckland's
       Ngā Puna o Waiōrea and Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi.
        
       Jones says kapa haka tutors and composers are feeding impressionable
       youth their own anti-government rhetoric and misrepresenting how
       politics and Māori MPs in government work.
        
       Kapa haka has always been an important avenue for Māori to express and
       showcase their heritage and cultural Polynesian identity through song
       and dance.
        
       But Jones said too many kapa haka composers are twisting waiata into
       ideological rants.
        
       "They seem to be on a diet of karaka berries thus their rorirori
       (funny)," Jones told the _Herald_.
        
       "They are projecting their political dislikes on to impressionable
       young minds."
        
       In March, David Seymour received a less than warm haka from students
       at Freyberg High School in Palmerston North, with one student spitting
       on the ground in front of him, as the Act leader faced off to a haka,
       as he was leaving.
        
       Jones said Māori politics is now enveloped in a new type of woke-based
       mania.
        
       "The faddish Māori term 'moumou to toto Māori' (waste your Māori
       blood) is screamed across Parliament. It translates our Māori blood is
       wasted on you," Jones said.
        
       "Such histrionics are based on the racist doctrine that blood defines
       character.
        
       "This is precisely what Winston and I have fought against over many
       years.
        
       "If this is indicative of kapa haka standards, taxpayers might be
       better off getting AI to create content!"
        
        **Additional reporting Atereano Mateariki, WaateaNews.Com**
        
        **Joseph Los'e is an award winning journalist and joined NZME in 2022
       as Kaupapa Māori Editor. Los'e was a chief reporter, news director at
       the Sunday News newspaper covering crime, justice and sport. He was
       also editor of the NZ Truth and prior to joining NZME worked for Urban
       Māori organisation Whānau Waipareira.**
        
         
        
        
        
        
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