Last night Marama Davidson MP took to twitter to highlight the glaring double standard in the political commentary of the National Party Saga this week.
Marama rightly argued that migrants of colour have always been reduced to economic units, long before JLR and Simon agreed that "two Chinese are more valuable than two Indians."
Further to that, she called out political commentators who skipped over the racism and the sexual abuse this week, and told them to do better at identifying the racism and the double standards in the way we treat migrants of colour vs white migrants.
Newshub have managed to sensationalise this and frame her powerful message as a "rant" and a "tirade" - probably because she's a Māori woman.
Marama was speaking truth to power, she was railing against a harmful narrative that hurts our migrant communities, and calling out the lack of in-depth commentary around the harm of the perpetual pitting of migrant communities against each other.
We fully support Marama, and her speaking truth to power. We always will. ✊🏾💚
https://twitter.com/MaramaDavidson/status/1053559846614663168