Supplied Hirini Matunga is a Professor of MÄori and Indigenous Development in the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, at Lincoln University. Colonisation created racism, and in particular the pernicious dominance, oppression and marginalisation generally of indigenous peoples and their institutions, by colonisers and their institutions, government, local government, police, corrections, justice, health, education, planning etc. It is uncomfortable and confronting to hear, but hear it we must. The malingering tail of colonisation is manifested every day in institutions across this country, and it is a tale of systemic, institutional racism. Many of these same institutions and public spaces were established, designed and named during early stage colonisation.