Pleased to see this brief video online — Maori MP performs haka before swearing oath to King:
New Zealand politician Rawiri Waititi … and five other parliamentarians chose to first pledge allegiance to their grandchildren, to young people and to the country’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi.
Waititi is the co-leader of Te Pati Maori, which advocates for Maori rights.
jabel first pledging an oath to grandchildren and then to the king. Yes! That is both a wise oath and a wise prioritization.
Miraz Jordan @jabel Seemed to me an oath to their grandchildren — their own heirs and successors — is a much better idea than to the heirs and successors of a bloke half a world away.