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If unity meant a continuation of the appalling health, education, housing, mortality and prison statistics that Māori face, then hell yes, I must be a separatist.
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The speaker rejects any idea of unity that would leave Māori facing the same appalling health, education, housing, mortality and prison statistics. “Hell yes” gives the statement force: if unity means accepting those conditions, then separatism becomes the position they openly claim.
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