Blog Ten; Rabbit Proof Fence

The Aboriginals are faced with many injustices as the European settlers began to colonize Australia. The right to equality and freedom from discrimination go hand in hand. The Aboriginals were deprived of both. They were discriminated against by their color and beliefes, and they were not treated equally to the White Man. Already two humans rights taken away. Their freedom to participate in the culture life of the community was taken from them. They could no longer "perform their dances and other ceremonies that were crucial to their culture and whole way of life" (16). They no longer had the freedom of belief and religion as their "teachers and keepers of the traditional Law were prevented from practising it" (16). Many Aboriginals were also arrested and exiled suddenly, with no need for an investigation to prove them guilty. As their rights were further stripped from them, they were no longer themselves. They were not equal in the eyes of the Europeans. They were loosing their humanity.
The "civilizing" of Australian Aboriginals could possible mirror historical events of the United States. Native Americans, as their "racial title" explains, were native to America. When European settlers came to America they encountered these Native Americans. The Natives were forced from their land and had treaties forced upon them by the Europeans. They were also not recognized as citizens, were not given a right to vote, and faced with discrimination from other races. The Europeans would, throughout history, drive the American citizens to become more like them. This was only settled through many years of disagreement and war.
They actions of the Europeans were far from morally justified at this point. They relocated children of mixed descent for their own benefit. The starved parents of their children and seperate families. This should not be right in the law. They acted inhuman as they took young kids from their families, homes, lives. They took them from everything they knew in the world, so they could teach them their "Western ways."  By doing this, they were destroying a culture and destroying the lives of children and their families. When a child would be taken, everyone would suffer. These Europeans put them through pain that one could not possibly imagine.