Mori Politician Has 'Perfect Response' To Palace Racism Claims

The co-leader of New Zealands Mori Party didnt mince words Tuesday when asked about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s revelation that the royal family were concerned about the color of their babys skin before he was born.

The Crown? I mean, I dont know why everyones so surprised that the Crowns racist, said Debbie Ngrewa-Packer, a member of New Zealands Parliament who leads the Mori Party alongside Rawiri Waititi.

A video of the moment, captured by Newshub , was shared on social media , earning the lawmaker praise for her incisive reply.

This was literally the perfect response @packer_deb pic.twitter.com/0RqVR5W1X9

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This was literally the perfect response @packer_deb pic.twitter.com/0RqVR5W1X9
Court (@maorimoana) March 9, 2021

Ngrewa-Packer has been a fierce critic of the Crown. In her maiden speech to Parliament last year , she condemned the historic treatment of New Zealands Mori people by the royal familys representatives.

I stand here as a descendant of a people who survived a holocaust, a genocide, sponsored by this House and members of Parliament whose portraits still hang from the walls, she told the House in her powerful opening statement. Members of Parliament who sought our extermination and created legislation to achieve it.

They took her peoples lands, imprisoned them without trial, murdered and raped women and children, and deliberately engineered our displacement for generations to come, she said.

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Mori people for decades suffered losses of life, culture, land, resources and power to the British Crown following the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the nations founding document. During conflict and British invasions in the 1860s, the government passed legislation allowing the confiscation of land from Mori tribes, the effects of which would be felt culturally and economically for decades.

The British monarchy has dominated the news cycle this week following bombshell allegations of racism and mistreatment from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Sunday night.