Write a letter to the editor,” he told the Herald.
“It was like, okay, in a white person’s world this is the best thing to do. Was it worth it? No, of course, but what price turning the other cheek?” You’re only given a split second to go through that process. “Thankfully, though, I weighed up in my mind the consequences and that it would be me that would be taken into custody, charged and invariably incarcerated. “I weighed up all the possible responses but the main response - that took every ounce of restraint I could summon - was mainly of wanting to do violence to this person,” Retimanu wrote. “I knew if a fight had ensued I would be the one taken away.” Instead he sat down and wrote a letter to the editor to vent. He didn’t get the man’s name, or his company, although he later had a “terse” conversation with his neighbour. I’m pretty sure if he was in Manukau he wouldn’t be able to walk by the time he got out of there.”ĭespite his rage, he walked away. “I thought, of all the coloured people he could have said that to he was very fortunate it was me. To compound it, he started making primate, gorilla noises. “I think because you don’t hear that word spoken at all, you go into shock. I couldn’t believe it - I said, ‘You called me a what?’,” Retimanu said. “I felt, not so much anger, but a deep disappointment. Then, he said, “things got heated” and the painter called him the n-word. Retimanu says he asked for the car to be moved to give a clear line of sight for traffic, but they refused. This morning he got in an argument with a tradesman who had been painting the neighbour’s house, because a worker had parked too close to their driveway. Peter Retimanu, 53, is a New Zealand-born Samoan who lives in Shirley in Christchurch. A New Zealand man says he’s “deeply disappointed” rather than angry after a tradesman called him a n***** and made gorilla noises at him.
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