Fair point - I’d moved on from this example of the tiered pricing to the big picture of ‘how does a society eliminate racism’ in principle.

You are right about this.

I do wonder what might the future look like though, when we’re all trying to ‘get one back’ either due to responding to the systemic racism or …bear with me here, the hypothetocal is a little gross: counter-responses: lets imagine pakeha with perceived past hurts in response to similar gestures? (as im sure there are quite a few completely blind to their privilege and so on…). I’m not saying they did the wrong thing at all with the gesture, I’m merely trying to find ways to avoid escalating things (which in hindsight sounds dangerously like ‘peace at any price’, but I don’t think it is…).