So for me it's important that we normalize the speaking of our own language. By breaking those barriers around speaking te reo. As someone who has fair skin and a full blooded sister who has dark skin, we have been treated different from those around us we interact with or looked at differently. Yet I'm the one who would try korero as much te reo as I know. Some people look and say "but your white why do you speak Maori". Ignorance is what we try and get rid of and normalizing our language for all our people is our goal.