The history of the n-word in New Zealand
Commentary A Pūhoi pub is refusing to remove a piece of memorabilia bearing the n-word from its walls. Dr Lachy Paterson looks at the history of the word here, and New Zealand’s complicity in Britain’s shameful slave trading past. Content warning: This article contains racist language and images. On a pub wall in Pūhoi, covered in bric-a-brac, hangs a pair of bullock horns. It is not the horns themselves that have landed the publican in hot water, but the board to which they are attached that sports the animal’s offensive and unfortunate name, “Ni**er”. The publican originally too...
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