"I bet you nobody from the UK was getting asked for ID". Sad but true.

“My blood has been spilt for Samoa. I am proud to give it. Do not dream of avenging it, as it was spilt for peace."

I remember being a 6 year old and knowing that being a Pacific islander was the looked down at in the 90s. If anyone was allowed in this country it should have been our Polynesian older brother islands. They were so good at turning polynesian against polynesian. Let's not let this shit happen to us or anyone again.

This is a very important part of our HIstory and this should have many more views. As a Polynesian born in NZ in the 70's, this gives me great understanding of what my Samoan and Maori grandparents went through before I was born. My father was also part of the Polynesian panthers but until now, I didn't fully understand the depth of what they went through. This was very tough time for all Polynesian families including Maori. Thank you for this video, I look forward to the next Episode.

E kalofae my poor parents, to this day mum and dad still carry their passports with them everywhere.

I'm Tongan, Palangi, and American and I loved learning about this history.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE! 🇼🇸🇹🇴

Really bold of Pākehā, whose ancestors came here without permission, to question anybody (even MĀORI) if they had the right to live in Aotearoa.

Didn't know about this part of the Polynesian history in NZ. Thank you for this.

My father speaks of these days with sadness. Polys stomping grounds back then was k'rd and ponsonby. Hard to imagine that now.

So good! Would be great to hear from a Palangi overstayer and their experiences in those times !

💖🥰I'm Maori and proud of our Polynesian family. God Bless you all!💖💖

Ill always remember my Dad hiding a couple of his Tongan friends when they were being hunted by Police. So glad my Dad had a good heart.

Sad to see that hope everyone come together as one. One love and care about each other.

Thank you for posting this - so important to be aware of our history.

I am currently watching the Panthers series such a good watch can't wait for the next episode tomorrow. As a NZ born Samoan they didn't teach any of this in school..I never knew about the dawn raids till I started reading up on Samoa and the colonisation period specifically German Vs NZ administration of Samoa at the time. Wow it just broke my heart literally but glad that I read up on it for some knowledge about what happened to our people. God bless the panthers for their commitment and passion in the fight for the mistreatment of our people 🇳🇿🇼🇸✊🏼.

Awesome content. Would love to see more videos on Blackbirding.

Hard to hear this stuff but blessings to those who lived it and now share their stories. Thank you 💪👍🌺🌴🤎🤎🤎

My father was here in New Zealand in the 70s, he was working at a glass bottles factory, in Ponsonby and was the Supervisor there, my dad was an over stayer but his Palangi boss was willing to fix his visa, because my dad was such a good worker but, my mother did not want to leave her home in Tonga so dad returned back home

I love learning about us south pacific islanders... peace and love

😯 I never knew any of this, thank you for the history lesson 💗

This is so sad to watch. I can only imagine what Melanesians were probably going through in Australia, being also brought to work from the islands. maybe someone can shed some light on this too #islander4lyfe

Love this content! Please continue to share more 😍

Thanks for sharing this. It's very helpful to know. 🙏💜🤙

RAcism is everywhere! Never thought that polynesian people had to deal with poverty on the island's. Proud to be a Polynesian!Thank you for the History!

Thank you for the history lesson.

Can’t wait for the next episode!!!

Hawaiian/ Samoan here..They only targeted us Polynesian.Not Palangi's talk about white Privlilege right there..Much Love to all my Polynesian.We proud and strong willed people cant stop us..Aloha Talofa Malo e le lei

"Son of the Dawn Raids" was bold. Loves up

Thanks for sharing. The pacific Islanders are a beautiful people. This is really sad that this happened to you. I'm sorry to hear what you suffered because of racism. Racism is a sick disease.

Growing up in Rotorua my friends and neighbourhood didn't distinguish people because of their ethnicity it was always about the content of their character. Our Pasifika whanau take their tangi to our marae. Bury their loved ones at the urupa. They are us. Back in the 90s we just got on with life. It was all about which of the 5 high schools you belonged to which pretty became your creed. Maori. Pakeha. Indian. Asian. Pasifika. We all human.... aren't we.

Thank you for sharing this. Never knew of the struggles that our people went through in New Zealand. :(

Thank you polynesian Panthers for making our lives easier for our people. However, we can not allow mainstream media to twist the way we see others

Fa'afetai tele lava mo lenei ata tifaga. So important.

One thing Polynesians no matter how you try to break us we won't fold! And will unite and die for the right cause! Warriors, unity, loyalty is in our blood!

I know this is off topic but their drip look so good

Thats crazy I would've never thought out of all places New Zealand?

Hi uncle Mika Tafua gosh thanks for sharing the sad story GOD BLESS🙏😘❤YOU

Yeah it’s sad like that one time they banned the Maori language from being spoken in schools and all the racism done to our pacific island people & I hope they teach this history in schools

That wood tech teacher though?! 🥲 Bless his soul 💕

Thank you for sharing. Loving this from the USA

THANK YOU GUYS sincerely for your work, I truly appreciate your efforts to bring about education and awareness of all of our people to the world!

Thank you for sharing! I wish they taught this in schools as well. But they only want to share blacks, (every kind of) whites, Asians, and Hispanics history. I am a proud Afakasi, afa uli uli, Afa Samoan 🇼🇸! I have experienced racism for being mostly black. I have also experienced racism from Samoans for being half black.

Island born and New Zealand raised, I hated the Dawn raids even though I could live here legally.

This has been a long time coming

thank you very much for your courage

I love this! thank you!!

I found this very interesting and had no idea this happened. From my memory I believe my dad loved PM Robert Muldoon, maybe he too gave my dad his papers.

Typa videos the youths need to watch.... Rather than taking their own brothers blood 🌪️

That's knowledge 💯 👏

The land and all it's resources, belong to no one...it's for ALL. Imagine if we all just shared.

bruh, they want them here, but don't want them at the same time

This reminds me of here in Australia when the police used to do the raids to get the mixed race kids who looked white to train them to be domestics.

To bad here in America the next generation or the ones that have gotten there papers have forgotten.

Overstayers would be more suited to Europeans to be honest us as Polynesians have many homelands Tonga Rarotonga Samoa Tokelau Tahiti Hawaii Aotearoa’s just to new a few I think the tactic conquer and divide to make us think that this isn’t our other Polynesian brothers and sisters home land as much as it is us as maori and that goes for some maori as well 🤦🏽‍♂️likr we didn’t fall from the same coconut tree and come off the same wakas that were continuously travelling back and forth from all of these islands makes us believe we are different cracks me up man I being Maori get annoyed especially when you fill out and application form for example and it ask who you are and it has pacific island or Polynesian and maori as seperate entities 🤦🏽‍♂️ but that’s it because it’s easy to control is this way I guess 😅😂 god bless sorry this happened to you in your own homeland brothers and sisters 💪🏽💪🏽 should teach this in Kura

Blessings iyah greetings from Vanuatu 😃😁👍🇻🇺🇻🇺🇻🇺

Dawn raid was only a part of the huge impact which racism has affected our maori and polynesian people. What strikes me to this day is the fact that we are living under a system where are taught that our actions have consequences yet when you look at the racist actions that was enforced upon our people there was no consequences no remorse nothing. What's even worse is the challenge we are facing today is the level of hate we have now amongst our own people towards each other. The way in which pasifika people down play darker skin members in their family and the racism maori have towards pasifika calling them coconuts, and recently the trolling that young polynesian online show towards each other is shocking. This is all because white supremacists tried to embed brown new zealand to believe that if you are anything but white then you are less of a human being. Polynesian people do not realise the true beauty of their identity. That is the reason why when you see our kids on tik tok or social media if you ever notice the way they act the way they talk as if they are black americans. They don't identify themselves completely and take on a whole different persona because they don't see the beauty of being brown and being confident in their own skin. We were not created to follow and copy other races. We blaze our own trails we set our own trends we start our own businesses, walk our own paths!

This is heartbreaking

Thank you

New zealand and Australia have treated our islanders nabours very poorly from black birding for labour in the earliest times, but they were smart and became the urbanized moari that ones that lived

Dad came in the 1950s first. Mum came later. They both met in Auckland. Pacific Islanders were used for Labour in Factories but once the economic downturn started. Pacific Islanders were targeted by National PM "Piggy" Robert Muldoon. Simply as a political target. Racism and Fear works to get Votes it even works to this day. In the 70s we had moved to Invercargill so we were saved from the fear in main city centres; Auckland and Wellington. Interesting how the decades of colonialisation instilled unwarranted respect of Pacific people's at that time to authorities. Now we know better and that is to question.

You should do a real one about Hawaii

There is a spelling mistake in ''Coconet'' TV

What is the final song at the end? Instrumental of moomooga? Where can I find out

Samoa to the world

This project is so true, i know some people in the past I knew about all these rumours a n out overstayed people are been hiding when their commission is over, alot of people these days they come over from samoa or were ever Island, n family try to connect them up with a older palagi old man lol, so they can sponsor them to live here. But very sad some people will still love that person, if it wasn't for them they would of been deported back to the island. But some other, after they been looked after n sponsor by their new partner or whatever, they neglected the love and honour these people did for them. They should be very thankful and been blessed bye these people that whats to help and love them or else, they go back n tui tui niko under the koko or ulu 🙃🤣🤣🤙👍

no wonder my dad keep telling me about knocking cops out

I'm doing this for my homework also I'm samoa

I remember those days I had a friend ran down to me in Bay of Plenty cause his relatives were telling on each other,haha ,we were both in our 20s both islanders.His aunt is Samoan and of course he couldn’t stay with her,so it was like cat and mouse game.that went on for about 3years or so.He is now a citizen with two sons and a few grandkids.Happy ending. I thought I’ll put this for a laugh and prove a point that good things happens to those who dares.?Yeah,you made it bro and rightfully so bless you all.NewZealanders are good people but the leaders from time to time are so questionable i believe.

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 I love it. Can't wait for the next episode.

nothing can change how traumatising it was for our pacific people, this is so heavy on us

Wowww, I never knew.

Mr Ings my teacher.

Up there with the sad civil rights movement in America back in the 1960's etc

I'm tongan and I never knew this 😶 wow

Episode 2?

So UK civilians were also overstayers but never questioned but Pacific Islanders were 🤷‍♀️😞 Till this day I still don't get it 😭

It's crazy to me as a white Australian. The pacific community is a very proud and old civilization, they should be able to freely travel the pacific as it's their people. Nothing new though, my ancestors were put on ships and sent to hell to try to build a life. Then I apply to visit the UK and am rejected. Isn't it my home too?

My heart for these polys in the 70s & 80s 🥺.

That's what it was like in those days? So, 1970s. 💙

🙏❤️🥰 HEROZ

We forget most times that we are just one race, the human race. I sympathize with the men & women who were ill treated during this horrific & unexpected time in their lives. However, as a Polynesian and a Christian we find hope and peace in our LORD Jesus Christ who went through the worst suffering ever known to man and He was sinless. He carried what we all deserve as fallen, sinful beings the punishment of our sins yet He Himself had no sin. If there was ever an unjust treatment in the history of mankind it was upon the Godman Jesus Christ. Who chose to forgave us and give us eternal hope upon repentance and trusting in His life & works alone as the mean for Salvation. If we don't find hope, peace and forgiveness in Jesus Christ then we'll never find it in a fallen world full of unforgiveness, bitterness, resentful, hatred, deception and false hope. This as an unfortunate part of our history but it doesn't determine our values & beliefs to avenge. That's God's job, we do our bit & learn of the Lord Jesus Christ lest we be conform to this world. Let His Words & Spirit transform us by the renewal of our minds. This world is not our home we're only passing through. Repent & Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ alone for Salvation. He will not refuse/rebuke anyone that draws near to Him in humility.

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i just realised im in this at 11:57

Wow dawn raiding the politicians, brilliant.

Now i know why my father decided to go to Hawai'i instead of New Zealand.

And I do believe that its way due that the Goverment of New Zealand must apologize to the Dawn raids.

Maori was getn pitted against our poly whanau by the behavior of the then Government.. Today that stigma is there still.. but not as worse.. But together we will be strong.. our elders need the respect.. acknowledge and understanding side by side we welcome our Pacifica people..

Same story like it’s happened/happening around the world. You’d think it’s 2021 that these sh*ts would have ceased, nah still happening…

More reason for us to support all migrants to nz so we don't copy the actions of those who used us and then wanted to abandon us when they were finished. Why you make me cry for .

My brothers and sisters o te moananui The doors to Aotearoa were always open to you. Until colonisation

Welby Ings Next time I see you, beers on me mate

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Tonu ke ta palangi ke mimi he taulasese! 😂

Bet they won’t do that now 💯🤟🏽

Time to us now to pay back what they do to us

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What's sad is that when I got to NZ in the early 70s, the most racist people I knew were also polynesian.