* (CAMERA REEL RATTLES) Titoro, whanau. Log out of Facebook and turn off Twitter. Time to take a break from throwing online stones and tackle one of the most taboo subjects in modern life. (FAST, PERCUSSIVE MUSIC) (RIFLE FIRES) WOMAN: Fuck off, Nazi Scum! LOUDSPEAKER: Fuck off, Nazi Scum! They are not us. We are not them. I reckon we're just the same. And I think they should be in their own countries. We're going downhill. (DRAMATIC BEATS) (HEAVY METAL MUSIC SWELLS) Nah, go back to your fuckin' own country, (BEEP)! (WOMAN CALLS IN TE REO MAORI) (WOMAN CHANTS IN TE REO MAORI) PAUL HOLMES: He's been a very cheeky darky. Kia ora, Aotearoa. The violent effects of racism have hit elsewhere. Now New Zealand is looking racism in the eye. Even being a bit racist is still racist, so this is the first of two documentaries looking at this touchy topic. How did we get here? JACINDA ARDERN: They are us. Because everyone knows, like, racism is bad. Like, everyone knows it. There's just so many people I know that are, like, sad all the time. And it's just, like, you're only 13. It's just` It's hard. We're only, like` We're only kids, and we're already worrying about this shit. What do we do now? Well, for starters, let's whakarongo to the next gen. Their korero comes from the heart. How do 9- and 10-year-olds describe a New Zealander? This is my drawing of a New Zealander. They're cheering on for the All Blacks. My picture is about a New Zealander. It's keeping fit and playing in the outdoors. This is a marae, and he's heading over to have food and stay the night. There's tonnes of farms in New Zealand. And she's just about ready to, like, feed the animals and stuff. This one is about the person who likes taking care of all creatures ` sea and land. What's happening in my picture is a New Zealander that picks up rubbish around dirty areas and puts it in the rubbish bin and is a kaitiaki of New Zealand. At this age it's about qualities, not colour. Like it or not, life gets more black and white. The blackboard shows pay inequity. When highlighted bluntly, how do people react? Phew. Are we gonna get any bites? Are we gonna get any bites? Well` Oh, this guy. $2 for you. $2.50 for you. (CHUCKLES) JOKINGLY: Ice blocks. You wanna buy one? It's hot out. No? Hi there. Would you like an ice block today? $2 if you're a Maori. $2.50 if you're a Pakeha. What are your thoughts? Mm. Nah. One price for everybody, eh? Uh, I'm not gonna answer that. (CHUCKLES) Sorry. No? It should be the same. It should be the same? It's racism, right? It's actually a reflection of the pay difference between Maori and Pakeha, which is roughly about 20% on average. Really? (CHUCKLES) Yeah. I've heard about, uh, female-male kind of thing. Mm-hm. Mm-hm. But I didn't realise around the Maori-Pakeha. Like, we should be treated equally, basically, and it's not fair. I think any person of colour will have an experience of racism. 'Oh, you're not like other...' 'Oh, but you're different.' You know? Or even the fact that when you refer to people of colour, you mean anyone who's not white. Well, white's a colour too. You know? But that's how normal white is considered. (CHUCKLES) That's the default setting, and every other colour needs to be mentioned. Do you know what I mean? (BELL TOLLS) Uh, we're here to talk about racism today. If you don't know what racism is, it's` It's like when you're a little kid and you get to pick a favourite colour, but if you took it way too seriously. (CROWD LAUGHS) You know, cos as a kid it's OK to be like, 'I love green.' But if a kid was saying stuff like, 'Green is a superior colour.' (CROWD LAUGHS) 'All other colours are inferior to green. 'You know what? I might only be 5, but I don't really think that blue is a colour. 'If it was up to me, we'd get rid of all the blues. 'You know, green power. Eradicate the blues.' (CROWD LAUGHS) Racism is when people categorise others stereotypically, and they believe somehow that race is innate to their character. And then, of course, what you've got is the belief that some races are superior and inferior. Now, we began to question that whole view of the world when we learnt about the Holocaust at the end of the Second World War, and the views of the Nazis, and the belief that Jews and Romani were Untermenschen ` non-humans ` and therefore you could kill six million of them. So, for liberal Western democracies like our own, we began to say, 'Well, hang on a minute, 'is that something that we should continue to believe in and condone?' Before Hitler, one race imposed its ideals on another right here. (HORSE WHINNIES) What is it, Mr Rogers? Oh, the Maoris are coming. (GASPS) The Maoris. Get your horses and get to town. (RUNNING MEN GROWL) The Maoris? The Maoris? Quickly. Quickly, get the child here. (RIFLE FIRES) DON BRASH: None of us was around at the time of the New Zealand Wars. None of us had anything to do with the confiscations. There is a limit to how much any generation can apologise for the sins of its great-grandparents. Um, you say that when colonisers came, we took over their culture. Uh, thank heavens for that. I mean, in 1840 Maori had no written language, had not invented the wheel... They were still practising cannibalism and slavery. Uh, none of those things we want to return to. So, I mean, I don't understand the logic of decolonisation. We don't want to go back to where we were in 1840. DR ARAMA RATA: Yeah, I think there's a tendency whenever we talk about racism or immigration or some of these really, kind of, meaty topics, for those people who are afraid to sound politically incorrect to, kind of, disengage or be quiet in those conversations. And so, all that's really left is this space that's occupied by those people who are not afraid of being perceived as racist or as being politically incorrect. And so, they tend to dominate the conversation and dominate the headlines. But I do feel as though it's something that we do need to be having conversations about. It's not up to Maori and people of colour to educate Pakeha people about racism. It's something that Pakeha people should be doing amongst themselves. I think that the average Pakeha person knows very little about our history. And I think probably many people who have immigrated since to this country know very little about the history of Aotearoa. (SLOW PIANO MUSIC) (DRUM BEATS) OK, test time. Oh, I love a good test. You're too old for this one. Take five rangatahi from Wellington who are 15 years young. How much do the next gen know about our bloody history? Oh, I get it. Yeah. So, the whole thing is Maori land, and then it just gets bought away. And then the end one was how much we actually` Maori has now. Like, Porirua was bought for �2,000, which is not a lot of money. After all, New Zealand is their land. And they now, basically, have no land cos it's all been taken away from them. They've only got 4.8%, and they had, like, 100% of the land before, so I find that incredibly unfair. What year was the Treaty signed? Wait, I know this. 1857. No, 1842. '42? 1873. 1956. (LAUGHTER) Oh, no, no. It's 1480, like, something. No. (CHUCKLES) Oh, 1848. 1848. 7? 1842. OK, we're not even close. (CHUCKLES) Is it 1980? No. (LAUGHTER) Oh, it says 1840 right there. Yeah. (GIGGLES) Got it. If they put this effort into getting it signed, don't you think they'd take care of it and put it somewhere special? Yeah, why would they put it in a basement? What would New Zealand have been like if we didn't have this? Probably, like, just taken over by Europeans, and I think there would be a lot of angry Maori people. Yeah. Yeah. They would have` Like, the Maori wouldn't have, like, anything. I feel, kind of, like, ashamed that` Like, it's our history, and we grew up here, and we don't even know when something significant was, like` you know, what year it happened in or, like, what even happened. So, I find that, like, embarrassing and... Inviting people to live with us on this land should not have been at the expense of our own, and that's what we have at the moment. The entire distribution of wealth in this state relative to the colour of people's skin is based on history. (BRIGHT MUSIC) Welcome to Show Me the Money. Show me the money! Definitely don't show her. She'll just spend it. Oh, true. OK, it's $5 versus $50. And here's the thing ` who will know the deets on this guy? And this guy ` who happens to be the only Maori on our money? It's gonna be interesting to see today what people think about our little knowledge game that we've got going on where we're gonna give them the gift of... (CHUCKLES) BOTH: ...knowledge. I've got a feeling we're gonna get a high hit rate on one. Yeah. And the other, not so much. Hi. We're wanting to ask people if they know who this is on the $5 note. He's the one that climbed Mt Everest. Yes. Edmund Hilary. The guy that climbed the mountain. Uh... Edmund Hillary. Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund Hillary. Boom, straight away. What did he do? Climb Mt Everest. Kia ora. Oh, I know this one. This is Sir, um, Edmund Hillary. CROWD: Bro! And he climbed to the top of Mt Everest, eh? Yeah. Nice one, Rocky. What about`? Do you know who this guy is on the $50 note? Mm. No idea? Yeah. No idea. He's got a moustache, so, like, he must be important. Do we know who that man is? Kao. Maybe something to do with the Treaty? Any ideas, anyone? Prime Minister? No idea? Yes. No. Who is that on the $50 note? Sir Apirana Ngata. Bro. Fantastic. (CHUCKLES) Oh, Sir Apirana Ngata. Oh. Sir Apirana Ngata. Yeah. Oh, kia ora. Do you know what he did? Yeah. First Maori in Parliament. I'm trying to think where he's from. Ngati Porou? Yes. So, Sir Apirana Ngata was the first person to get a double degree ` BA in politics and then a degree in law. What a legend. I've got a question for you guys. How come you all knew Sir Edmund Hillary straightaway? Oh, because we learnt about him at school. This is another famous Kiwi. We know this cos his face is on the $50 note. (CHUCKLES) But you haven't learnt about him in school? ALL: No. Interesting, eh? Yeah. Oh, kia ora, whaea Shav. History teacher, eh? Hey, this whaea is on fire. Oh, please don't ever do that again. Oh, wow. (CHUCKLES) Seriously, though, keeping this korero cool till after school is tricky. Maybe a dose of retro racism will clarify things. (HARP MUSIC) Kia ora. Manu and I are redecorating Manu's house. Manu has lived here her whole life with her nana. Manu's nana lived here her whole life as well. Look. We just put these taonga on the walls. What a lovely house. Morena, Paul. Morena, Shav. This is Manu's house. We've just redecorated it. Hm. What's that, Manu? Would Jemima and Little Ted like to visit? That's very nice, Manu. They'd love to. (PLAYFUL MUSIC) There we go. Jemima and Little Ted can have a room each. Oh, are they going to stay? Well, I guess it is nice to share. Ah, yeah, that's perfect. Oh, what's that, Jemima? Jemima feels like the house is a little bit cluttered. Well, we can easily fix that. That was Manu's great-great-grandmother's. Oh, well. There we go. Ah, that's much better. (CHUCKLES) Oh, look. It's Jemima's mum. She's come to stay too. Nice to see you, Jemima's mum. Jemima's mum can stay down there, and Manu can stay outside. Oh, what's that, Little Ted? You don't like the colour of the roof? I've got your favourite colour right here. Blue. Before Paul paints the roof blue, maybe he should think about Manu's feelings. Oh, it doesn't say anything about feelings in this agreement, Shav. (PLAYFUL MUSIC) * (CAMERA REEL RATTLES) (CURIOUS MUSIC) Yeah, so, we're talking about racism. I, kind of, consider myself a racism expert. You know, I've faced a lot of it cos I look like this. (CROWD LAUGHS) I grew in the sort of town where single mothers name their kids stuff like Justice and Innocence,... (CROWD LAUGHS) ...but they didn't know they were being ironic. Like, if they were gonna name their kids in a way that accurately reflected the reality of our situation, we'd all have names like Methamphetamine. (CROWD LAUGHS) Or, like, Felon. Like, convicted felon. Not Jimmy Fallon. (CROWD LAUGHS) Stereotyping. Like, me and my mate` He's Maori. Shout-out, AJ. Um... (CHUCKLES) He will` He's` You know, he wears a hood into a shop. The shopkeeper just automatically thinks he's stealing ` like, pats him down. I was talking to a friend. He was just telling me about this lady who kept looking at him (CHUCKLES) on the bus, and she kept clutching her purse. We know it's happening. We just` It's hard if you haven't experienced it. If you don't experience it, then you wouldn't necessarily know. Like, you would know, but you wouldn't, like, know. (BELL TOLLS) (DRUMS BEAT) Time to read between the lines. How many Kiwis feel that kind of judgement? We took 10 people at random and put questions to them. Those who hadn't experienced negative stereotyping stepped forward while those who had stepped back. (DRUMS BEAT) (BELL CHIMES) (BELL CHIMES) (BELL CHIMES) (DRUMS BEAT) I thought it was very interesting that we were so far apart at the end. I would like to think that we're not racist, but I think, in actual fact, when it really comes to the crunch, that a lot of people are. # Ka mate, ka mate. # # Ka ora, ka ora. # Some New Zealanders believe things aren't too bad. We aren't South Africa, and Aussie is heaps worse. And everyone loves the haka. # Whiti te ra. A upane. Ka upane. A upane. Ka upane. Whiti te ra. # DR JAMES HOU-FU LIU: Well, the haka is a symbol of Maori identity. But it also can be easily embraced as a symbol of New Zealand identity, and it costs Pakeha New Zealanders nothing. (MEN PERFORM HAKA) Now, you move into acknowledging the war crimes that were committed against Parihaka, and then New Zealand Europeans become a lot more reluctant to acknowledge that, yes, my ancestors raped and pillaged this peace-loving community that inspired Ghandi and Martin Luther King. We still hold title to this land. That's a tough one, isn't it? (CLASSICAL MUSIC) LOUDLY: Are we all agreed upon the procedure? RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION ACCENT: Well, yes, it's quite simple, really. Look. All you've got to do is sign here, here, here and here. You got that, honky? For both Maori and Pakeha, the most important event in New Zealand history is the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. What that does is that gives Maori a symbolic position within the New Zealand psyche that cannot be ignored or eliminated. (GUNFIRE RUMBLES) The Treaty is a visionary document. It was something that our tupuna ` our ancestors in the time ` saw as a way of creating a future in this country that would enable two peoples, two nations, to live together; that acknowledged our Maori rangatiratanga, but at the same time recognised that as Pakeha populations and community grew, there was a need to have a form of governance that would enable us to live well together. But the Treaty is not some magical, mystical document. Lurking behind its words is not a blueprint for building a modern, prosperous New Zealand. My concern is it's been quite distorted. I mean, I think for 1840, it was an extraordinarily enlightened document. Nothing like it happened in Australia, in Canada, in the US. Indeed, when I was doing my PhD in Australia in the 1960s, Australian aborigines were not even counted in the Australian Census. Quite outrageous. By comparison, the Treaty ` while it's been not entirely honoured in several respects during our history ` nevertheless affirmed that, Article Three, all New Zealanders have the rights and privileges of British subjects. I mean, it seems to me to be the most inoffensive and non-racist thing to say. PLAYFULLY: Time for money to do the talking in a friendly round of colonial bingo. One number is how much the defence force costs Aotearoa each year. It's the modern-day equivalent of British soldiers. One figure is the yearly spend on a transport system most Kiwis complain about. And the last one is the total paid out in Treaty settlements to all iwi. Are you able to match these pieces of paper to the numbers on the board? That's been spent in the last year, and for the Treaty it's what's been spent to date all up. 3.4 billion? Treaty claims. Treaty claims? And then transport. 5.3 billion for transport. Yes. Transport? Surely the Treaty's the lowest. Why would you think the Treaty's the lowest? They haven't paid out enough. It's been underwhelming. So, what do you think was 2.2 billion? I'm gonna go defence force. OK. Cool. You're gonna go defence force? Yeah. Is that your final answer? Are you looking that in? Yeah. Let's lock it in. Locked it in. You don't wanna phone a friend? No. Were you aware of these amounts before? No, you've actually got that in the right order. (BOTH IMITATE RINGING BELL) You win the game today, sir. You were correct today. (CHUCKLES) You (IMITATES WRONG ANSWER BUZZER) ANDREW LITTLE: Today, the Treaty is recognised for its constitutional significance and historical and continuing importance. However, the government breached its obligations. The rights of Maori were largely ignored for generations. Oppression of Maori voices made Maori strangers in their own lands. They were denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in government decision-making. The impacts of colonisation continue to be felt today through entrenched structural racism and poorer outcomes for Maori. JOANNA KIDMAN: Those silences around the colonial past, they don't heal. So, I think there is a conversation that we need to have as a nation about the nation's colonial past, the violence of that past, and what happened and how we're living with those consequences in the present. (OLD PICTURE THEATRE MUSIC) Aotearoa's history is dramatic, violent and the perfect fodder for a film like this one from the 50s called 'The Maoris Are Coming'. Look out for those Maoris. Hurry up. Here's a quick recap of the plot. The Land Wars didn't go so well for the Crown, so in 1863 the New Zealand Settlement Act was created. But it wasn't about settlement. The law meant Maori who rebelled against the Crown would have all their land confiscated without compensation. (GUNFIRE RUMBLES) DR ARAMA RATA: When we look at all of our social indicators showing, you know, terrible disparities between Maori and non-Maori, many people are probably very tempted to suggest that the system is broken. But the system, of course, is not broken. It's working perfectly because it's doing exactly what it was designed to do. (SLOW DUBSTEP MUSIC) (THUNDER RUMBLES) Murupara ` 85, 90% unemployed. Is it hopeless in Murupara? Oh, hopeless depends on what you're into. If you're into the city life, oh, definitely hopeless here. But if you're into the country life ` hunting, fishing ` oh, brilliant. (CHUCKLES) Some see Murupara as down, but dig deeper and it's far from out. 15-year-olds Lola and Julsy didn't know when the Treaty was signed. They have also never heard of Murupara, but here history and tourism will make for a priceless life lesson. How do you pronounce the place we're in? Murupara. I've never actually heard of it. I've never actually heard of this` Neither. I've never heard of it before. So, Murupara probably does not have the best reputation throughout New Zealand. 40 years ago, our town was a thriving forestry town. Now, right here right now we are standing in the largest manmade forest in the Southern Hemisphere, if not the world. Forestry employed everybody here, and shortly thereafter, the government stepped in and corporatised forestry. So, while Maori still own the land, all of the trees got sold offshore to big corporate companies, and when that happened, they mechanised a lot of the jobs. So, suddenly, a lot of our people were faced with huge amounts of unemployment. Now, with unemployment very quickly follows on behind a lot of that other negative, prickly stuff. So, over the last few decades, I would say a lot of the media tend to focus a lot more on the negative than the positive aspects of our community. You know, we're out in the absolute middle of nowhere. And failure, unfortunately, ripples through those streets ` not because we placed them in there. It's because others brought their problems and their views and their lifestyles and their systems into our township. Now, these here are actually living proof that life here in New Zealand started before the great migration. These here have actually blown all the theories out of the waters ` what scientists thought about us and how we established ourselves on these lands here, OK? We don't learn about this at school at all. No one knows the stuff about those carvings. Yeah. And then Ena has so much, like, pride when she talks. Now, to describe to you guys what a taniwha actually looks like` Do you guys know what an eel is? Yep? So, it's basically an eel and a dragon or a lizard smashed together. We just sit in a classroom and search things up in our computer, and that's just coming, like` It's second-hand information. So, it makes you listen better and take it all in a lot better when she's the one telling us. Yeah. It doesn't really go through one ear and out the other. The school education system here in New Zealand teaches you about history that has got absolutely nothing to do with you and your ancestors, you know? So, now I'm in such a positive environment where I'm able to help bring a better light on Maori culture, on Maori language and Maori history. Tourism, I think, really does help people pull off more layers of culture and history. There is a demand for that. People are wanting to venture further afield and to hear real stories and find out about real life and sit down with people, have intimate encounters and discussions about life and history. The best moments is when you see positive Maori speaking about our history in a bright light. Highlighting our good. Highlighting our strength. So, hands up ` is Murupara a gang hotbed or a tourist hotspot? And is this a bomb or a manu? Hm, bomb? Manu, Shav. They don't call me the Manu Queen for nothing. Nobody calls you the Manu Queen. Just called me it. (SCOFFS) Egg. Anyway, it's human nature to see things differently, isn't it? But to try and get a handle on racism, some numbers are being crunched for this doco. In a New Zealand first, Harvard University has helped develop a test to quantify where racism is at in Aotearoa. It doesn't work to ask people straight out how racist they are, so researchers use implicit bias tests to measure controversial behaviour. Now, these tests asked participants to do tasks without reasoning to measure what is hardwired into our brains. It's the first time anyone has asked ordinary New Zealanders to pinpoint racism. We will have the results from that test soon. (CHILDREN LAUGH) There's, like, different kinds of racism and stuff. Like, there's mean racism when you're just trying to hurt someone's feelings. But then there's just racism, like, when you're just being stupid. Like, you don't even know you're being racist. Like, the other day some lady asked if I was a rapper. You know, which as far as racist things that've happened to me lately, it's one of the nicer ones. (CROWD LAUGHS) Like, she saw me, she saw the colour of my skin and she assumed I had a talent. (CROWD LAUGHS) VOICEOVER: Hey, Auckland, which of the Youi 40 ways to save would work best for where you live? Grey Lynn, close to the city, is where Ava lives, so number 1 of 40 - "Don't drive to work" - could be best for her. Titirangi, where most people have off-street parking, is Rick's suburb, so number 24 - "Park securely at night" - could be best for him. Why not see which of the 40 ways apply to you? You could save lots. Get a quote online at youi.co.nz and save 15%. * ROBOT VOICE: That is a bit racist. (TV STATIC) (CHANNEL FREQUENCIES BUZZ) (TV STATIC) (HARP MUSIC) OK. Let's see what time it is. The big hand's pointing straight down, which means it's half past something. And the small hand's halfway between the five and the next number, which means it's half past 5. Let's have a look and see what's underneath. Do you know what that is? That's right. It's a police car. Look. It's a police car like the one from under the clock. REPORTER: Officially, the Police are saying there is no blitz; they're not making random checks; they haven't got special squads. But Police sources today tell me they have been told to concentrate on billiard halls frequented by Islanders, and they are making random checks. Our government invited them here to do hard jobs that real Kiwis didn't like. But now machines do those jobs cheaper, so they have to go back home. I wonder what real Kiwis think about this. There's these people from the Pacific Islands. I don't know if` We can't absorb them, can we? Let's keep to our own British stock. You know, we can't educate them. They're not used to our way of life. They don't know the language. You know, in New Zealand we like to think we're this egalitarian society, you know, where everyone gets a fair go, and then you learn about our recent history ` things like the dawn raids ` and you're like, 'What? This is New Zealand. I thought we weren't capable of that stuff.' Bringing dogs into people's homes ` you know, homes where you normally have to take your shoes off to walk in, and here these were cops just running in with their boots, backed by the Immigration Department, with dogs, letting them run free. This is` You know, this was directed at Pacific Island people, you know ` Samoans, Tongans, Fijians and even Maori, you know, who were advised to carry a passport at all times so they could prove they were from New Zealand if they were stopped by the police. That was just astounding to me. (SYNTH MUSIC) Grievances didn't make the nightly news till the 70s, when the gloves came off. There's a time bomb here, and if and when it blows, you better all watch out. Growing urbanisation and unemployment saw battle lines drawn between the haves and the have-nots. When you walk into a shop, they think, oh, there's a little Maori boy gonna thieve. So, look at him ` 'Oh, I'll be back to do your shop,' you know? Once we ran out of money, we need money. Well, that's the only thing to do ` rob the rich and feed the poor. (JEWELLERY BOX MUSIC) There was a time when New Zealand cities were quiet and clean. People said they were nice places to bring up children. (GLASS SMASHES) But the cities grew alarmingly. People poured in ` not just from the country, but from other countries as well. Soon there were not enough schools... (CLAMOURING) ...or hospitals. The people became angry, and violence broke out ` especially among those who had come from other places, expecting great things. New Zealand cities are not such nice places to bring up children any more. What if you don't have work and you're stuck in the city, OK? So, that would be the origins of the overrepresentation of Maori in the crime statistics. (VIC SAGE'S 'GRIND') # Uh, put 'em in the dirt. Say it again, man, and that's a reverse. # Never rehearse. Jump in it first. Call up the nurse. Put the beat in a hearse. # There's this thing you develop when you're driving while brown, and it's as soon as a police car goes past, your eyes just flick up to the mirror. It's almost an instinctive thing cos you're like, 'Are they gonna turn around?' Shucks. I remember only a few years ago, me and my cousin, we were driving a new rental car through Mangere at night and we drove past some police. And sure enough, they did ` they pulled us over. And the cop was from Britain, and it was just the same treatment that I just remember from being younger. Like, 'Is this your car?' Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it wasn't until his partner, who was a Kiwi, came out of the car and saw us and recognised us and went, 'Oh, nah, nah. These guys are all right.' What the hell? In my late 20s, early 30s, there's times cops would pull me over. 'Can we just have a look in your boot of your car, mate?' And you're like, 'Yeah, sure.' And then they pull all your stuff out and biff it on the side of the road, (CHUCKLES) and you're like, 'What the hell?' And then when you realise that` You know, you tell a few people, and they say, 'Well, they're not actually allowed to do that, you know? It's only cos you gave them permission.' You know, then I start getting to the point now where if I got pulled over by the cops, I wind my window down that much. I ask them for their badge number. They ask me what I've been doing. I tell them it's none of their business. You know, we've got rights, you know? And they seem to stomp all over them. When you look at the stats of who's in our criminal justice system, (EXHALES) there is a higher proportion of Maori and Pasifika that are involved in the criminal justice system. As to why they are overrepresented, um, I think a lot of it is to do with the social-economic positioning of a lot of our people. And (EXHALES) there is also, I think... (EXHALES) not so much targeting of Maori and Pasifika offenders, but (EXHALES) it's the way the system is slanted. I mean, we recently saw the son of a wealthy Pakeha businessperson importing drugs, and the judge acted like the multiple imports were some kind of error in judgement. Now, if you put a Maori man there or if you put a Pacific Nations person there, you would've got a totally different ruling. So, there is no one law for all, because the way in which the law, and the way in which the system is applied to Maori and Pacific people, is significantly different to how it's applied generally to Pakeha people. (PLAYFUL MUSIC) We asked Harvard University to help quantify racism in Aotearoa. They found a whopping 98.4% of Kiwis believe people are discriminated against because of their race. However, only 24.1% admitted they had personally discriminated due to race. HIGH-PITCHED VOICE: Say what? I know, right? Does that add up to you, Shav? Yeah, nah. And the occupation most likely to discriminate ` can you guess it? Management. Oh, those managers, eh? The hirers and the firers. I'm gonna have one side of my face have laser skin resurfacing, and the other side, L'Oreal Revitalift Laser Cream, and we'll see if the results compare. I actually feel my skin looks much, much better than it did four weeks ago on both sides. You can get similar results without the pain. Revitalift Laser from L'Oreal Paris. * ROBOT VOICE: That is a bit racist. (TV STATIC) (CHANNEL FREQUENCIES BUZZ) (HARP MUSIC) Today we are playing schools. Today we are learning Maori. Morena is a Maori word that means 'good morning'. Morena, class. Morena, Shav. That was pretty good, but I didn't hear one of the students say anything. (PLAYFUL MUSIC) Jemima's dad says that he doesn't see any point in learning New Zealand's native language cos there aren't many job opportunities that require us to speak Maori, especially overseas. Well, learning the local language isn't just about getting jobs. It's a way to keep the Maori culture, or ahurea tuakiri, alive. Can you all say ahu` What was that, Big Ted? Big Ted's uncle says that you and your people should keep your mumbo jumbo to yourselves and stop shoving it down our throats. Well, then. Let's start the French class. Yay. We love French. Oh! Such a sexy language. And in French class you get to make crepes and watch cool French films. FRENCH ACCENT: Oh, la, la. What do you think, le grand Teddy? (CHUCKLES) Yes. Oi, oi, oi. Gerard Depardieu. Juliet Binoche. (CHUCKLES SAUCILY) They say, 'Oh, what's it like in New Zealand?' 'Uh, it's racist.' (SCOFFS) Sheila Dikshit. (LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY) (OLD CAR HORN) No other race, no other culture has been targeted deliberately by the New Zealand government like Maori have ` deliberately, intentionally attempt to exterminate and eradicate Maori culture. They actually passed laws to exterminate Maori culture. Everything from the Settlements Act, where if you disagreed with the government you had your land confiscated; to the Tohunga Suppression Act, where they just banned Maori culture; and a whole lot of land laws where Maori were banned from 'purchasing' their own land. Right? No other race in New Zealand has ever been targeted like that. That's why it is important that we all tune in to the` to everything that Maori want to discuss. It's important to everybody who wants to live in New Zealand, in Aotearoa, cos this is Maori country. If you don't understand what the problem is and you don't understand the reason behind grievances` historical grievances, then you're the fuckin' problem. There's lots of opinions on this issue, but this documentary is also looking at racism by numbers. And with the help of Harvard University, we've asked a range of New Zealanders to do a test designed to reveal their hidden bias. That means testing the decisions people make without thinking. Now, all sorts of things contribute to this, like what our parents and peers think, what we read, and what we listen to. More on that in the next episode. Are you up for it, Aotearoa? ENA: Our people did not build that box to be placed into. It's everybody around us that created that box, that put us into that box. But they think they creating a system, it's a one fits all, when no, that's not how it works. You know, we aren't born to hate. So, therefore, like, racism is something that you gain throughout your upbringing. We're supposed to be pretty progressive nowadays. Like, we're supposed to have done with racism and all that. I feel like if more people talked about it, that would be, like, a huge step, because you're confronting the issue. Unless we change the systems now, and unless we change education now, and unless we change our thinking now, unless we think more critically about the impact of racism and all of those oppressions that continue to marginalise people in this country and look at the systems that enable that ` unless we do that now, then our children and our mokopuna are gonna be dealing with the same issues in 50, 100 years' time. So, I hope the future is different because of the kids and the experiences that they have growing up with people from other cultures and other countries and it becomes less of a thing, and we can focus on what's really important, which isn't the surface things, but, you know, the stuff inside. I found out earlier this year that a good friend of mine ` turns out she's racist. What happened is me and my wife, we were looking at buying a house at the time, and she goes, 'Whereabouts are you guys looking?' and we were like, 'Oh, kind of, like, Mangere, Otahu kind of area.' And she goes, 'Oh, I could never live there. Too many brown people.' But before I could say anything, her husband leans over and he goes, 'Hey, babe, babe, babe. You can't say that in front of Jermaine.' And I was like, 'Bro, you can't say that in front of anyone.' (CROWD LAUGHS) Like... (CHUCKLES) Like, as if it was only racist because I was there. I was like, 'It's always racist.' My presence does not` In fact` In fact, if I wasn't there, it would've been more racist. It just would've been two white people in a room just being like, 'Oh, brown people. They're scary. Am I right? High five. Psht. Yeah.' www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2019