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Speaker 1: Surely the Peranora performance as a sign at the times

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Speaker 1: I would have thought, I mean, how far back, small clue?

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Speaker 1: Not far do we need to go to think that

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Speaker 1: this sort of extracurricular activity would never have been even

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Speaker 1: close to being contenance by an all black squad not

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Speaker 1: long ago. Essentially, sport was sport. It got political in

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Speaker 1: the spring Bok apartheid era, of course, but that I thought,

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Speaker 1: I thought to myself yesterday that was sort of politics

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Speaker 1: from the outside in, wasn't it not the other way round?

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Speaker 1: It was Peranara's last time in a Jersey. Why not

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Speaker 1: leave with a message? I think that would be the

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Speaker 1: argument for many. But what sort of message was it?

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Speaker 1: If one of the blokes from I don't know rural

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Speaker 1: New Zealand decided to slip in some support in the

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Speaker 1: postmatch interview for the current gun reform or the gang

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Speaker 1: patch laws, how do you think that would have gone down?

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Speaker 1: A David Seymour, who quite sensibly asked in response to

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Speaker 1: the peran Aurra reviews, just what bit of equal rights

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Speaker 1: do you not support? Is kind of on a hiding

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Speaker 1: to nothing. We eve entrenched camps on this one, don't we.

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Speaker 1: No one's in the middle. You either believe in the

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Speaker 1: idea that we're all equal or you don't. Perhaps more worryingly,

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Speaker 1: Peranara's performance was spoken about with management and supported by them,

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Speaker 1: so i' mean credit to him. It wasn't some mad

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Speaker 1: spur of the moment outburst. And for the record, when

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Speaker 1: he says it's important to him, I don't think anyone

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Speaker 1: doubts that. But lots of things are important to lots

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Speaker 1: of people. But within all our lives and all our constraints,

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Speaker 1: and one of the constraints around being an all black

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Speaker 1: is you represent the country as an elite athlete, not

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Speaker 1: a politician or an activist. As we saw in a

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Speaker 1: much lesser way a couple of weeks back, the woman

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Speaker 1: who may well end up hitting the content and news

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Speaker 1: department for the state owned television station took leave to

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Speaker 1: go on the treaty protest. Quite rightly, many asked whether

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Speaker 1: that was wise. We can ask the same question of Peranara,

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Speaker 1: and given we had all the all black management blessing

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Speaker 1: as well, we can ask that question in them as well.

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Speaker 1: I would have thought if the criteria for protest as

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Speaker 1: an all black is passion, then we're asking for trouble.

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Speaker 1: What we want in all blacks are sports people of integrity, professionalism,

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Speaker 1: and preferably inability to win a lot. The rest of

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Speaker 1: it risks damaging the brand, insulting fans, and distracting us

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