Make Ponsonby Brown Again: a Sāmoan family resisting gentrification | Still Here
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2022
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Mother-daughter duo Selu-Kian and Moevasa Faletoese delve into White Ponsonby’s Brown history fortifying their resolve to hold onto their family home no matter what.
In 1971, 45 percent of Auckland’s Pasifika population lived in the inner-city. Now, they’re fewer than 2 per cent.
Through the eyes of Pacific youth and their families, this four part docu-series celebrates the small but mighty Pasifika community in inner-city Auckland who have remained despite decades of rampant gentrification.
Each episode weaves intergenerational stories of family, community and culture dispelling the myth that “all the Islanders have left.”
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Coming from South Auckland I never knew that other pacific islanders had the same historical upbringing. So thank you for making this short film. Living up to our parent's values can be really emotional, complex, and difficult to maintain. Especially, when it comes to the family house. So I pray every day that I make the right decisions, not just for me but for everyone that has touched my life.
Omg rewind the past😔.... We were the brown kids from 94 John Street, Ponsonby. We were born and grew up with the Cockers, Tuitamas, the Pedersens, the Tulisi and this other Cook Island Family on our Street together with alot of Families on O'Neil and Summer St. Man big changes alright! Thank you for this film, really brought a lot of tears and memories....
😊 My family lived on Tole St, the liquor store was behind us and my older cousins would hold us younger ones over the fence, steal the Sports soda pop drinks and run to the park, slide down the hill on cardboards, get sick off the merry go round lol..I'm 48 now buh those feelings of childhood remain 😊😊
Man I remember all you guys. Everyone was pretty tight back in those days.
Yooo Iki Tulisi Hows the Fams!!!
@@florantinamaiava6870 we are good. We're all scattered around South Auckland now. Hope you are all well.
You must be related to peta, moneti, Eli and falaniko. I remember you, you were older and went to aggs. Hope your doing well.
Kia Orana Neighbours,
Your home is on the next street from us. We have passed your home many times over the years and you ours. Our kids and grand kids went to the same schools 😆😆 Now we are the LAST Pacific Island and Cook Island family on our whole street left. (But theres still two more Kuki families the street over from us)
Its so sad to have seen so many PI and Maori families leave. One by one. And those of us that stayed are strangers in our own neighbourhood. Many Real Estate agents came to convince my Mama and Papa to sell their home in the 90s and now my parents to this day. Yes, they pushed us out and now we don’t feel we belong anymore 😢😢
Little do the generation now realise what a strong hold Central Auckland was with a big PI network. Richmond Rovers, PIC, Glue Pot etc. And all the factory workers! Great memories of community🥰🥰
🌺 We are still here 🌺 Kia Manuia 🌺
That's awesome to hear you're still in the area. My family still in Lincoln st, No place like home! This familie house looks familiar, I was thinking of Douglas or brown St but I could be wrong. I had the best childhood growing up in Central Auckland.
Really enjoyed watching this I'm from Trinidad in the Caribbean and I can identify very much everything this family has gone through.
As a NZ Samoan/Tongan born kiwi I really enjoyed all your short films on our pacific people the way their parents, Uncles and Aunties family who came here and started a new life away from their homeland in Samoa or Tonga! and seeing the changes from the past in the 60's till now 2022! My Mom and Dad came here back then and landed in the Whenuapai based airport at the time before the Auckland airport was built! alot of jobs too jumping from one to another with good money to support the family! as for racism I remember still when I was young going to town to support the protest against the springboks rugby team! and the massive brawl's fight's against the police it was bad? I work at the Sanitarium Health food company and sad to say I still see the racism with our Head office staff? but for me I don't give a damn it's made me stronger and appreciate life even more! were not here forever in this World! so I thank God for life and a beautiful family, (they say what you do in the present will determine what you do and say in the future!) faafetai lava alofa tele atu, malo aupito ofa lahi atu! Godbless! Apulu Kinglifi Sam Saluni.
You not being the boss isn't racism lol.
I have to live around people who tattoo symbols into their faces, symbols that caused the death of 100 million of my people.
You wouldn't know racism if it slapped your face.
I am the kid in this doco at the 3:25 mark. Filmed in 1971/2 but in Blenheim! The older lady handing me the oven dish is my late grandma "Nanna". I remember being filmed in the house and at other parts of town but never saw it until recently when my little sister saw it online. Now awaiting NZ Film archives to reply and ask if they can find other clips of me for this NZBC news article. Reporter for the story was the late Rod Vaughan and produced by Ian Johnstone, both well known identities in NZ television
Proud to be involved with this film, as moved up to Auckland in 1980 and spent much time in Grey Lynn (park) Ponsonby area with other Samoans and P.i.s.
Before my dad sold and moved to aus he lived in dickens street grey lynn back in the 70's. i went back for the first time over 10 years ago and couldnt believe how close to the city it is. I always had this assumption that our people always lived in south auckland but he used to say there was no need for him to ever go to the southside because CA had a thriving tongan community back then and whatever south auckland had CA had aswell. Hang onto what you have because i know my dad regrets leaving it all behind.
Love this, please hold on to this legacy. So happy we still have our people living in Ponsonby/Grey Lynn... my family were one of the few that took the bait, couldn't afford the rising costs, and moved out Southside.
Well done tangata pasifika.. I remember those days when Posonby was all pacific island people. All the volley ball games at Greylynn Park.. Keep your heads up my people..
Grey Lynn park 😊😊😊 who wasn't there fun times
Fakaue Lahi Atu 🌺🇳🇺🌺
Watching this made me happy/sad, my family is originally from PONSONBY too, it was spot the white, Tole St was my best childhood memories, John, Arthur, Pompelier and Vermont before we moved to New Lynn. So grateful you told this story 🌺🌺🌺
A great story told and exactly explained like my Elders use to tell me, how the area was thriving with Polynesian people. My Grandparents and my family still live and own their houses along Richmond Road. Gentrification in a time where living close to the CBD or Waters was once considered Slums or for the poor working class. Look at it now, exactly similar to Sydney CBD and areas close to the water are now out of reach and unaffordable!
Seki ah even Redfern brah freaking REDFERN 😬🤜🏻🤛🏿
Born and raised in Grey Lynn ... Parents sold up in the 80's ... Parents now passed ... But will always identify "Central" as my home ... Though living out West Auckland ... 🙌
I remember when we use to come to Auckland to visit family back in the late 1970s early 1980s - Ponsonby and Grey Lynn was the only Auckland places I knew of - only heard of South Auckland later in life. Its only for work, because one of our offices is in Ponsonby that when I went there - it felt so familiar like it was part of my childhood upbringing. They did the same here in Wellington - Thorndon, Te Aro, around Mt Victoria, Brooklyn but mainly Newtown was the first point of Islanders settling into Wellington back in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s - then of course in the late 1960s and 1970s was the big flush to Porirua and the Hutt because of the Todd Motors and car assembly plants, and the new complex of Porirua that offered a far more better lifestyle with the big parcels of land available and housing for families to flourish. Many still remain in Newtown and spread through to the East and South. Thank you for this
Watching this seeing a lot of my old childhood surroundings brought back so many memories, Ponsonby is where I was raised, PIC newton was church on Sundays now resided in Sydney think of home & my younger years more often… thank you for sharing.
A beautiful story with deep roots and faith. So good to know that families from PIPC Newton are still going strong despite the big changes in the community. Rev Sio & Rev Challis - such blessings back in the day. Lots of alofa to this mum and her kids. May all go well for you in the future...
Yes Rev. Sio was amazing and did a lot for our community. I’ll always be grateful to him because of his service to our people.
My grandparents came from Samoa in 1960 and they stayed with my grandmother’s uncle in Ponsonby. At that time like many others remember it was all Pasifika, Samoans, Cook islanders, Tongans & Maori’s. The families would go to church in PIPC Newton and all you would see are people walking in white clothes with church hats. Memories of going to visit my relatives in the 1990s. In late ‘90s my great great uncle sold his house there and headed to west Auckland. Nowadays I barely recognise it. The sense of community has gone where everybody would help and support each other.
Beautiful family thank you for sharing your story. Born and Raised in Kingsland Auckland central in the 60's
Love these videos. I'm a Maori and I have had a similar upbringing in our small town, did everything with our neighbours/cuzzies.
This a thoughtful story, and has rekindled fond memories of a colourful, vibrant Ponsonby in the 70s and 80s. Several older men I worked with at the city council in that era sold up and moved their families to South Auckland, where you could buy a much newer house for the money. A lot of those now flash Ponsonby villas were pretty run down back in the day, and they cost a fortune to restore, so you couldn't really blame them for leaving. It was sad though, and I reckon Ponsonby is the lesser for it now. Subscribed for more.
My family moved from Bay of plenty to Auckland. Ponsonby was the first place, that my father's sister brought a house to call home for her and her siblings away from Home in the bay of Plently....as it got closer to the 80's they were slowly getting pushed out to South auckland like many polynesia and Maori families were at that time.....
Its like in Porirua. Maori/Pasifka/Pakeha all get along mostly but the 'richer' parts always stick to themselves and their own ways. My sis (Maori) and her hubby (Pakeha) wanna move back there. They built their home in a newly developed area thats now real flash, but since more and more people built around not one neighbour interacts except for an older white couple a few houses away with a small dog. Every time I drive up to visit, I get grumpy looking Indian men glaring at me from their mailbox.
Maligi o'u loimata and my heart goes out to all our Parents, Grandparents etc, whom emigrated to N.Z from the Pasefika for a FUTURE for themselves, kids and future Generations...TRAILBLAZERS ❤❤🇼🇸🇹🇴🇨🇰🇫🇯🇰🇮🇳🇺🇵🇫❤❤
My friends uncle used to own a villa behind ponsonby KFC back in the 80's, we used to hang out there, he sold the house for $400K in 1989 to move to Mt Roskill, the cost of that house now is $5 million dollars.
Oi sole 😶
all good those streets are a bitch to drive in anyway probably saved some grey hairs!
BS
Good old PIC! Many memories at lotu ❤❤💯💯
Naawww, beautiful Vasa and Selu. It was the "Can I get an AMEN" for me. That's the Vasa I know, always making people smile and laugh ❤️. To see pictures of mum and dad and church. Definitely has changed since growing up in Grey Lynn and though we have moved, it will always be home no matter what. My children can now see and experience where I grew up and be apart of Newton PIPC. Thank-you for sharing ❤️🙏🏽
When my family migrated from Samoa to New Zealand we stayed on Ariki Street growing up I would hear stories from elders about how grey Lynn/ponsonby was all brown and all the different families in the area, my grandparents then sold up and moved to south Auckland Mangere, it’s crazy to think that grey Lynn was once all islanders now it’s white, so happy that you guys are still holding it down malo lava 🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸❤️
You are right don't need there money that history of your parents how they came to NZ I'm so happy to see other Polynesians in ponsonby and who still living there yes lot of brown faces back then
Malo lava le Soifua maua male Lagi mama.
Watching the short film made me homesick bringing back memories of my upbringing growing up where it all started for me.
Raised by a single parent back in Grey Lynn not Ponsonby-
Grey Lynn in the early 70s.
Born & raised in Grey Lynn went to Grey Lynn Kindergarten Pre School before attending Grey Lynn Primary School in my early years before moving out to Mt Roskill living there for x amount of years & then once again on the move & now moving off shore to Australia but GREY LYNN, PONSONBY, MORNINGSIDE will always be HOME 🙌✊☝❤🙏
Thank you for sharing your story. 😊
My grandparents migrated here from Samoa in the 60s, eventually moving from Ponsonby to Mangere in the mid 70s.
Mum would always tell us of how they would 'walk' every where back then.
Well spoken and intelligent mother ❤️
🌺🌺🌺 agree, I love how the house is still the same, the walls and mowing the lawn 😅 the push blades were only for the rich 🤣
What a great story I spend some time in central Auckland until I moved but yes Ponsonby was one of the expensive areas. I enjoyed watching it🥰🥰🥰🥰
awwww bless you and your beautiful family, what an amazing story, you are a great story teller. i hope you and your family have an amazing future and prosper in that sacred land that your whanau grew up in. 🙏🙏
Beautiful story lovely lady and daughter.
😭😭😭😭 so proud of mama speaking up about how racism does exist in NZ.
It doesn’t exist, only racist people think racism exists.
@@thecoolestkidinkalkallo9621 only a racist person would say that
Big ups to those who came up with this series! Enjoyed it, such good insight into what central Auckland was like before and it’s warming to see there are people still holding it down specially for those who know what it’s like to have lived in a house you’ve only known & grown up your whole life in, it’s buzzy to see how its incredibly change in the area and now become though sadly
Malo Vasa. Beautiful story🙌🏾. Ponsonby and Grey Lynn has definitely changed but some of us are still here. #picnewton #greylynn #northlandst
Love watching this I totally resonate with your mum beautiful story
GREY LYNN/ PONSONBY FOREVER 🇼🇸🇹🇴🇫🇯🔥❤️
This is happening to my area in christchurch a.k.a rowley hoon hay been here for almost 40 years, we use to be so brown pacific islanders and maori and very few others!!! But now there is more and more europeans moving in and its starting to not feel like home i even have new residents give me that look that i think all us brown people have gotten from whites uknow the stare like im bout to rob them or something smh. I miss how this area was just us
I'm in Christchurch, from Auckland..when I get homesick I go to Rowley for Hamo food, sit at the park listening to the island boys across the road, it's the only part of this city that I feel has pasifika people 🌺🌺🌺
@@mitchwest6365 man thats awesome!! Wish you had seen it back in the days it was like weird if we seen palangi's walking around lmao
@@YallNotWhite_YourPINK I heard that's when Megan Woods was for the people 🌺
OMG I’m loving these series, absolutely gold! Rich in memories and history and love.
Love seeing our Pacific brothers and sisters stories of family. More of these beautiful captures please.
Newtown, Wellington was the same. The 90’s is when a lot of island families started moving to either Auckland, Porirua or Australia.
As a side note, i became more interested in their generational differences. I love how our oldies love and embrace colour and the importance they put on spiritual health. I’m still trying to understand this fascination that the younger lot have with black when they’re not in mourning.
The people in this video want to keep Ponsonby brown, however I want to keep our Pacific culture bright and colourful. It’s what westerners love about Indian culture, Mexican culture etc. Too many young ones embracing bland colours and then go and dye their hair turquoise, pink or some other unnatural colour.
Let’s not be afraid to wear the bright colourful puletasis, shirts, dresses etc at our family/church events. It helps bring joy to our events and is good for our mental well-being ✌️
389! Born and raised in Newtown. From Newtown hospital straight to Te Ara Hou Flats on constable Street. Islander families everywhere. Now, Newtown is full of African, Europeans and Asians. Not a bad thing either. Miss Newtown/Berhampore, will always be my hood. But my parents had to move.
Yup very true Lyall bay, Newtown & island bay were the hubs of Islanders in Wellington back in the day. My fams lived in Wellington city but headed in ‘72 to Porirua. I heard stories of back then, I grew up in Ptown. It’s changing scene nowadays.
You two are just beautiful and so powerful.
I always love watching these stories of Samoans & ofc all Maori/Pasefika living in Aotearoa 🤎.
Much love x
Beautiful story, an me an my family still here in grey lynn, at crummer road♥️
I have thoroughly enjoyed your story thank you so much for sharing your mum is awesome she's so Hilarious.
Piki Te Ora To you and your family.
Love from Perth Western Australia.
9:23 Richmond dairy represent 378 / 376
To much Mike it reminds me of my family I'm over seas now my family are in New Zealand keeping it going love from overseas 🥰🇬🇧😁👌I can see them even if they are miles away
Two Michelle lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣💯 percent and other don't go there it's my blessings
I love this💙🧡
Always proud, and honour to be a Proud Samoa.🇼🇸 And by the way you have excelento English👍🤗😀
Dad had an Aunty in ponsonby she died in the 90s and her son sold the house for 1.3mil in 2021 and gapped it to nobody knows where lol
Vermont St dairy sold for $1.6M, I bet they glad us kids not going there with 1&2 cent coins for our parents smokes now 🤣🤣🤣
I’m so saddened that a whole community of poly people were in a sense evicted from there neighbourhood
They pushed all the poly out of that area now they tryna do it in south Auckland and that’s facts.Jacinda don’t care about the polys they raising prices like crazy
Bull shit they weren't evicted they sold up and we're given money for their properties
@@Againstdhawa exactly, there a lot of racism in these storys
Why is this not screened on mainstream T.V.? Not the damn rubbish we are subjected to
Nice film, I feel for you, especially with those masks on... Breathe! I loved Grey Lynn and Ponsonby, I lived in Grey Lynn, Newton, Waterview and K Rd back in the 90's, studied at AU, had rellies in central Auckland. Malo lava le faamalosi.
You had me at 0.01
Nau mai, whakatau mai !
Amen
YAAAAAAY I SUPPORT THIS
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Ātaahua aiga ♥️
So sad but the Covid BS back in NZ is next level. Stay safe my Pacifica peoples. Left Auckland 11 years ago and this just pulls on the heart strings.
"It was like, spot the White" Haha That line was a crack up.
Only in Auckland!
so sad about the churches dwindling numbers...
When going to PIC Newton and Grey Lynn park felt like Pasifika 🌺🌺🌺
No disrespect, but why not take the equity out of the home and renovate? You get a new(er) home, completely paid for by the house's current house/land valuation. You also get to keep the house, plus, the new valuation will increase the value of the property, meaning the family reinherits a more valuable asset to then pass down. Never sell, but upgrade to create an even more valuable asset that then takes on new value.
Alternatively, take the equity and put it into buying another property. You're still not selling the current home, but its value that it generated can now be transferred onto another property, meaning you've essentially bought one for "free" as you've not used any of your own money, but used the profit the house has currently.
These are simple strategies to create generational wealth foe the family, without having to sell, or sell out. Understand that if property developers are offering you big dollars, they're currently offering you cents on the dollar. Perceived current value and then future value are worth holding onto, but it's about using that to our advantage, so that you call the shots, and not bullied into a corner.
I’ve watched 3 of these episodes and I wondered the same thing every time!
I understand the “halfway house” idea with lots of family passing through and lots of memories but why not chip in to maintain it through the years particularly the Herne Bay house.
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A billion dollars?? Your parents will disown you if you turn that down 😂😂😂
OUA LE FEFE 🇼🇸😤
We would all love things to be the way they used to be but the reality is time marches on can't live in the past.
PONSNOBBY has no wealth
Compared to your respect for your Parents
How about we just be free and be in harmony with one another without bringing colour into things? Let’s just bring all our ancient cultures together. Soon you’ll all see how much we have in common with the original history of this earth. Peace be to all.
I guess for some people, the generational hurt of their culture by a majority particular and specific culture doesn't really wipe off that easily and as said.
History already answers a lot of unasked questions.
rip metro foodcourt lol
God bless you all , Jesus loves you all only he can save u repent and turn from your sins and accept Jesus as Lord and saviour and you will be saved. He is the only way to eternal life in heaven once you pass away its too late . ❤✝️🙌
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Good short film, i feel sad the lady believes its prejudice against Pacifica and maori its all about money ,you will find the same scenarios all over the world this isnt really a rear story ir isolated to Pacifica and maori ,
When the white man wants to share his take… take a back seat!
Your projecting and it's a nostalgia most Pasifika remember.
Billion dollars??? Hahahhaha you funyy
Some poly are the most racist in form of reve see racism . Nobody was evicted from that area they sold up and moved on simple things and places change all the time . Nobody of those time knew back then that the inner city would be so expensive we can't predict the future . But now that the area is rich you want it back for free even though you sold up don't create racism here bro nz is already divided alot of angry people out there let's be one people
This ain't about that ! This is a memory story, a family who kept their parents values alive over money ! Piss off with your RACISM . The Polynesian Panthers foundation is PONSONBY against people like you, pointing fingers with no valid solution 🖕
Reminds me of a simple fact.
"Everyone in this country came from elsewhere".
Was it no great that grandparents built a home for their family. Clearly great people.
They're just talking about how much has changed. How many of the poorer families were priced out of an area that was once avoided because of the high Pasikfica population. It's sad that those areas are targeted
Now they have a gay bustop
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Evolution happened, it was never gonna stay the same.
Interesting video but imagine the vitriol that’d come from the MSM if the title was “Making Europe White Again” or any other place. Reminds me of travellers to Ireland or a place like that who posted “seeing all these white people made me so angry” or something like that and went on this whole woke rant about wanting them dead. She was at the top of this hill seeing the whole city/village” and funny thing is I recall she herself was fair skinned too lmao.
Don’t worry. I LOVE when culture and history gets restored
I can see people getting irked if the title was otherwise. I know some like myself would be interested to see another perspective.
But that's Europe, predominantly white.
This is New Zealand, located in the Pacific Ocean, predominantly brown.
Lmao you seem to forget that whites did this for 100s of years!!! They did it so much they went to other races land and claimed it for them selves
racism in ponsonby? whatever its the woke capital of auckland ponsonby is a green seat
dnt thnk god 4 your chicken teriyaki thnk the queen on your money 4 giving us such a stable powerful currency!
Always a clown in the mix
@@mitchwest6365 is tht a ice cube verse ? lol
Imagine paying those massively high rates to live in a shit box just because you can't let go of the past.
Just the title of this is racist stop mentioning colour all the time it's starting to get boring.
Why didn't you just pass by instead of thinking your comment is relevant? I felt the NEED to WRITE THIS 😅
There a lot of racism in these story’s/ series.
Brown again, come again, Ponsonby was white long before Islanders came. "Brown again", what utter nonsense. I grew in Ponsonby then the family moved out into the suburbs.
cry about it
@Twano2am