Former Samoa centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu has posted a video of himself on YouTube claiming the All Blacks would have toured Nazi Germany if "Hitler had had an interest in rugby".
In a video titled 'Why the All Blacks have no excuse not to go to Samoa, Tonga and Fiji', Fuimaono-Sapolu puts forward his case for why our national rugby team should tour the islands.
After speaking about the deep links between Polynesian and New Zealand culture and the Polynesian contribution to New Zealand rugby, Fuimaono-Sapolu says the team has never toured to date because of "money" - the worst reason.
"There was a time when the United Nations asked all the countries in the world not to have sporting relationships with apartheid South Africa. And the reason why they did that was because while South Africans were killing black South Africans simply for being black.
"So they asked the whole world to do that."
The only country that didn't abide was New Zealand, and the All Blacks toured there because of money, he said.
"That is why it is the worst excuse ever. That you chase the money, because it justifies the killing of innocent people. Because it justifies racism and it justifies killing black people because they are black," he says.
"I'll go one step further and say, if Hitler had an interest in rugby, and fronted the money and showed the All Blacks and told them to come tour Nazi Germany, the All Blacks would."
It's not the first time Fuimaono-Sapolu has got himself in trouble for being outspoken.
During the 2011 Rugby World Cup, he faced a judicial hearing for calling Welsh referee Nigel Owens a racist and complained about unfair treatment following Samoa's defeat to South Africa.
He also compared the World Cup game schedule to slavery, the holocaust and apartheid.
