​Video transcript

.When I was at school, I don't know like-
- [Crew] Mark it.
I guess I was invisible. I felt invisible.
The old state house, that part of Whanganui tick, tick.
I kept getting in trouble for my uniform being wrong.
You know, when the right jersey for winter costs too much.
- [Crew] Mark it.
All these pākehā kids, I wanna be an engineer. A lawyer.
Something like that.
Teachers are like, yeah. Yeah. You can do it.
Someone suggested fruit-picking.
Me. I hate fruit. But I was good at maths.
But then I left school when I was 15.
Nah, 14, technically, I had just gone. NCEA level, nothing.
You think racism is a big thing like I hate Māori or don't let the dark kids sit here
but it's not, never was, it's the little things. Just assumptions.
Shit that goes under the radar.
'Get the Māori kid out to do the haka for the minister of education'.
'Why are you lot, always naughty in class?'
Yeah.
Shit like that.
- [Crew] And cut there! Happy?
And I know you didn't ask but I wanted to be a vet.
- [Crew] Isn't it Wanganui?
I still do.