Race Segregation In TV
(N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, Feb. 27. Television was one of the greatest fields of racial segregation In New Zealand, a Maori clergyman said in Hamilton last night. The Rev. P. Reeves, lecturer at St. John’s Theological College, Auckland, was speak-
ing to a modern-style youth service at St Aldan’s Anglican Church. “Television is very much a white man’s world in this multi-racial society,” he said. “It is very noticeable that Maoris are never used on television advertisements and this I feel is one of the greatest fields of racial segregation.”
Mr Reeves told those who packed the church, that young people were fascinated by the television advertising world where “happiness is supposed to be only a product away.” “Christianity too, speaks of the ‘better life,’ but Christianity is not a spiritual gymnasium on earth to obtain a future life, but the judgment, that is the crisis, is now, in our daily lives.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 1
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