{"id":13642,"date":"2020-02-03T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/04\/forget-anti-racism-this-waitangi-day-demand-our-land-back"},"modified":"2020-02-03T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:00:12","slug":"forget-anti-racism-this-waitangi-day-demand-our-land-back-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13642","title":{"rendered":"Forget anti-racism. This Waitangi Day demand our land back | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Land loss is at the heart of every Indigenous struggle and our national day is a reminder that M\u0101ori are still fighting for self-governance<\/p>\n<p><em>This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from <\/em>M\u0101ori<em> writers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One reason progressives love committing to anti-racism rather than, say, decolonisation is the former requires nothing more than a state of mind. \u201cI\u2019m not racist\u201d \u2013 drop the spoken or unspoken \u201cbut\u201d \u2013 and congratulations, you can wash away the guilt. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/04\/forget-anti-racism-this-waitangi-day-demand-our-land-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land loss is at the heart of every Indigenous struggle and our national day is a reminder that M\u0101ori are still fighting for self-governanceThis week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from M\u0101ori writers.One reas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13643,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions\/13643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}