Rabbit Proof Fence

In "Rabbit Proof Fence", the Aboriginese faces many injustices. The first is unfair trials when the English unjustly prosicuted them for stealing sheep. The next thing they did was the Europeans frequntly seized control of the Aboriginese land and the only way they took it was by threatening the natives with guns and superior technology. The white man also forbid the natives to practice their own religion and forced them to practice Christianity to keep them form uniting and rebeling. Another unjust thing the forigners did was keeping Aboriginese slaves and forcing them to work. In the story, a British journalist states in one of his articles on the Australian issue, "Black servants, I find, are very serviceable in this colony; on them we depend for labour, as we can never afford to pay English servants the high wages they expect, besides feeding them so well. The black fellows receive little more than rice - their simple diet."(16) One of the worst things they enforced was the exilation of half white children from the Aboriginese. They did this because they believed the hybrids were smarter than the natives and would start an uprising. All of these examples are in clear violation of the UN's human rights. I believe the white man trying to civilize the Australians mirror the attempted civilization of the American Indians in the 1800's. We also forced our religion onto them and forced many of the children to white schools in an atempt to blend our races together. We also took nearly all of their land and forced them into reservations across the country and further west. I don't beleive that the relocation of the mixed race kids was for their own betterment, I think the white man was afraid of the mixed race kids because they were "smarter" than the native population. Also, they might have been afraid because the mixed race kids could've belonged to both white and the Aborigines at the same time.