Mana leader Hone Harawira says Hobson’s Pledge is an anti-Maori hate group that has no place in Aotearoa.

He says the group led by former National Party leader the Don Brash is campaigning against issues that are important to Maori such as their status as tangata whenua, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and te reo Maori.

"There’s this constant pressure on Maori to be made to feel we have taken something off everyone else, off all the white folk in society, that we have this privilege. And I say let me qualify that privilege. The most homeless, the most unemployed, the most seriously deprived in terms of standards of poverty, the most arrested. We don't want that kind of privilege. We just want our land back," Mr Harawira says.

Mana members have started turning up at Hobson’s Pledge meetings to record what is said.

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