Reporters shoved microphones under people’s faces in the street and asked if they thought settlements were a good idea. Often you’d hear comments like Isn’t that all in the past? or We just need to move on. There was a strange nervousness in these answers, as if addressing a wrong somehow made everyone complicit. Or perhaps less patriotic toward their home. But learning New Zealand’s history didn’t change how I felt about my home country. In fact, it was in Mr. Fountain’s class, lesson by lesson, that I realized loving where you are from meant seeing all the wrongs that needed to be fixed and
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