-By Warner Todd Huston
There is one final point to make about the event honoring the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech held last week on the steps of the Lincoln Monument in Washington DC. Why the heck were Maori tribesmen invited and why did they perform a Haka, or war dance there? Isn’t MLK an American institution?
Purported Maori tribesmen performing a Haka, war dance
I mean, can you imagine what would have happened in 1963 if those organizing the freedom march on Washington back then would have included a band of tattooed, weapons-carrying, “Maori tribesmen” who performed a dance of WAR replete with screams, grimacing faces, and other such overtly threatening antics?
Rightfully it would have become a controversy that far outshone all the good works done that day.
But, even the threatening nature of a war dance aside, the Maori people aren’t even America nor from an American territory or culture.
What the hell were they doing at that intrinsically American event?
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