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Ryan Bridge: Keep doing what you're doing Karen Chhour · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Did you see the reaction to Donald Trump's comments yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: If you missed it, this is what he said about
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  Speaker 1: Karmla Harris's race. She was Indian all the way and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden she made a turn and
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  Speaker 1: she went she became a black. Just to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: I see somebody should look into that too. When you
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  Speaker 1: ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty time, what what? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the media rightly ran the story and it was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. Isn't that exactly though, questioning someone's race? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that exactly what Lawadi waited he did to Karen Traw.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that exactly what he did the other day in
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  Speaker 1: parliament when he asked what blood quantum are? You? Couldn't
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  Speaker 1: the same be said of Calvin Davis, saying that Karen
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  Speaker 1: Traw quote, lives in a puckyha world. She's Maldy by
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  Speaker 1: the way, and what about Tapati Mardi? They said Karen
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  Speaker 1: Taw should have been raised by Maldy caregivers instead of
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  Speaker 1: Pucky how ones. This is a woman who's been through
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  Speaker 1: the state care system and claimed that she had disdain
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  Speaker 1: for Maori for her people. This week they said she's
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  Speaker 1: just a puppet of her party, and she was basically
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  Speaker 1: left in tears in the hallway to TV three. I
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  Speaker 1: was still a person. I'm still a person, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm getting that stripped away from me day
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  Speaker 1: by day in this place. I've had enough. No apologies
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  Speaker 1: from Tapati MARII, no accountability. I just think it's sad.
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  Speaker 1: Put the politics to one side for a second. There's
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  Speaker 1: a woman crying in a hallway. Wouldn't you want to
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  Speaker 1: just say sorry if what I had said had made
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  Speaker 1: you feel that way. Karen Traaw is not a bad person.
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  Speaker 1: You might disagree with her policies, sure, but also her
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  Speaker 1: treatment in the media this week. I think she's been
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  Speaker 1: interrogated more about who bullied her then Julia and gender
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  Speaker 1: ever was about actually bullying. It's a double standard, no wonder.
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  Speaker 1: She's battling and struggling, and then Chippy turns around and
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  Speaker 1: says she's not fit to be a minister. Gas lighting much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I hate all these terms. I hate all
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  Speaker 1: these words. Karen Shaw will be fine. She's a very
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  Speaker 1: strong individual. I guess that just annoys me because if
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  Speaker 1: the shoe was on the other foot, imagine, just imagine,
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  Speaker 1: and where's the Human Rights Commission. Where's their statement on
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  Speaker 1: this stuff? You know, you know what I mean. There'll
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  Speaker 1: be attack dogs on social media. You can you can
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  Speaker 1: just imagine how it would play out if the shoe
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  Speaker 1: was on the other foot. I say, keep doing what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, Karen Shaw. You're hard working, you're conscientious, and
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  Speaker 1: you can rise above it. For more from News talks'd
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