As people in the streets of Hamilton said to my good Pākehā friend and campaign volunteer, "Could you not find a candidate who looks like a New Zealander?" It shocked me. In the most recent election, I woke up one morning to find one lovely Hamiltonian was harassed and verbally abused by two sets of people for having signs supporting "a curry candidate". Racial discrimination is not new to me, neither in politics nor in other spheres of life. When I was at the university, a prominent paediatric surgeon bullied me for months and said, "You people come to our country, I will kill you and ruin your career."