Police comes at dawn to hear people yawn
Attacks on back just like flats
Night is just right for a fight
Turn the handle for a scandle
Hurdle the gate if you don’t want to go to jail mate
Eggs cooked maybe we should have a flight booked
Rookies just eat cookies
By Kymani
Dogs barking to go inside
Auntie Lita opens the door
White policemen asking questions
N***** shouted to Pacific Islanders
Racist comments yelled by the police
Aunty Lita and family gets arrested
Islanders crying and feeling intimidated
Don’t trust the national party
By Ana
Protesting for their rights
Open the door they said to Bill Birch
Leaving church in my White Sunday outfit
Young men standing up for their parents
Never stood down to the government
Everyday feeling intimidated
Strong cultural connections being trampled
Islanders children being traumatized
Apology 50 years later
Never forget the impact
By Ana
Dogs barking before the door opens
Aunty lei opens the door, sees white policemen standing at the door step torching their light
White cops specking another language we never heard before
Neighbours watching us like its a show
Racist comment by police men
Aunty lei and daily get arrested and thrown into the paddywagon
Islands watching their family members get deported back to the islands
Didn’t expect this to happen and caused intergenerational
Trauma.
By Vaiola
Police officer came and bang! on the door
Overstayers hunters as criminals
Lavalava’s in the community
Young people scared forever
Nervous about the police banging on the door
Every brown person targeted
Sirens loud at night
In the family they would hide uncle
A police car waiting outside
N***** yelled the police
Police officer would put the overstayers in the paddy wagon
A dog smelling people trying to hide
National Party making racist cartoons
The police yelling “open the door”
Helped by the Polynesian panthers
Every dog barking at night
Racist sentiment in the community for decades
Scapegoats for the economic problems
By Michael M
Dogs come in the dawn
A light all around the house
White cops yelling from outside
Now im in the house ready to show my passport
Raided every room
A police car waiting outside
In hiding somewhere
Door smashed open
By Lemeki
Dawn
Police at the door
Running away frim the door
Going to jail
By Kymani
Raid
Life is so unfair
We get mistreated and spat on
We are a panther
By Kymani
Dawn raids happening
In the early morning BOOM !
Hard workers sent home
By Chance
Dogs hunting and smelling round the house
A cop car waiting outside
White cops saying racist words
Now scared and terrified
Running away from the cops
A cop chasing a boy
In a cop car being arrested
Dawn raids, an ugly reality
By Boisi
Dog barking towards the door
Aunty’s and kid’s are frightened
Woken up to a knock on the door
N word yelled by the officers
Ready to show evidence/papers
Aunties crying
Inside the attic hiding
Down trodden, treated as second class citizens
By Waiari
Dogs barking at the door
Arrested for peoples passport
Walking to work feeling scared and shy
Nervous about something new or other people
Really feeling worried about the police, getting arrested
Aunty and the children feeling even more worried
In the house hiding from
Dogs helping the police find overstayers
By Abigail
Dogs barking and growling at us like were murderers
A voice through a loudspeaker yells “OPEN THE DOOR”
Where is your passport?!
Nervous about what may happen
Racist words being yelled towards families
Afraid of being taken away
Intimidated by the police in uniform
Dawn, the line ready to be searched
By Eve
Police surrounding the house
A bright torch being flashed in my eyes
Negative words being yelled at us
The police stopping brown people on the street
Homes being searched
Erica edges to open the door
Racist words hurting feelings
By Eve
Doors slamming
Adults screaming
Wailing children
N**** coming from cops
Roaring sounds in the early morning
All families split apart
Investigating innocent people
Deported and unwanted
By Chance
Dogs barking at my door 123… bang they busted our door down, where’s your passport?
Ahh... dad rustling through his drawer looking for his passport 5 4 3 2 1 they pull him to the floor
Walking down to the docks late for work, trying not to think of what happened at dawn
N*** shouted in my face by my boss, his fingers eating his rings and his stomach is ginormous
Running away trying not to think of what happened at work and at home
“Aye where are you going?”
“I got a coconut suspiciously running from the docks”
Dawn raids still echoes in my head
By Jordan
Dogs barking and growling at the door
Afraid of what will happen
White people saying racist words
Nervous & scared about what will happen next
Racist words being yelled towards families
Aunty Lee edging towards the door, “where’s your
ID?”
“Don’t trust cheap labour”
By Nitika
Raid
running to the door
Arrested by police
Crying tears sadly
By Waiari
Dawn Raids were not fair
they were very frightening
Dawn Raids are gone for ever!
By Jordan
1970
Dawn Raids happened
family members getting taken away
and family members being called coconuts and
over stayers.
Came for good paying jobs but instead got treated like
second class citizens.
They where sent back to the islands the rest that
stayed and lived in ponsonby.
Where they started
The Polyneasian Panthers they protested, and petitioned,
Family next door getting dawn raided wondering if were gonna be next.
Mum worried sick
wondering if where okay.
And if we leave the house that we’ll come back home.
Thinking if maybe the islands are best for us…
We were right raided the next day sister moana siding to
the door
she has the best english in the house.
Just hoping that we do things right and nothing wrong so one
of us
dont get sent back home .
But luckly we did things right were here altogether as a familly. Joining protest signing potetions for our
equal rights.
By Jordan
Dawn
As dawn approaches
Police standing at front door
Running away fast.
By Vaiola
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