As the Government moves to bring in new laws banning gang patches in public places, a chapter of Black Power has revealed plans to stop wearing them have been discussed for decades.
Genesis Te Kuru-White (TK), a leader of Black Power Movement Whakatāne, says his father’s generation recognised Black Power needed to change. Three decades ago they wrote a 100-year road map which included a plan “to make the patch a thing of the past”. Sam Hayes has the story. | Subscribe: bit.ly/2JPg8oB
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