Avril Bell (Email: S.A.Bell@massey.ac.nz

Sociology Dept.

Massey University

New Zealand

Dear Avril Bell (pictured right),

I read your article "Dilemmas of Settler Belonging: Roots, Routes and Redemption in New Zealand national identity claims"  in the February 2009 issue of the Sociological Review and notice how you cherish the term "pakeha" for European-New Zealanders. It is, or course, a racial slur like "nigger" and hardly academic. You should apologize and resign your tenured position... after all, any University in new Zealand must surely be, if you are anything other than a hypocrite, a white racist institution.

Sincerely,

James Joseph Sanchez, PhD

President, EAIF

P.S. Here are people who relish the use of racial slurs. Maybe they are all sociology professors in New Zealand, too!