Discrimination of Aboriginal People

2011 Words9 Pages
| 2012 | [Discrimination] | Discrimination of aboriginal people has been going on for so many years that it almost feels like it may never go away. I would like to start my research with some of my own personal views as I am an aboriginal female who has experienced discrimination and racism many times in my life. I can remember growing up and I honestly never really noticed the difference between myself and other people, probably because my mother kept us very sheltered and we didn’t see many people outside of our family and a lot of “family” not by blood. I remember the first time I experienced discrimination was when I was in school and they were doing the weekly head lice checks and we (aboriginal kids) were the first ones to get brought down to the gym and I didn’t realize why until I was a little older. When I started making a lot of friends at school, there were many of them that I was not allowed to bring to my house and I was not allowed to go to theirs, but again I couldn’t understand why until I asked my mother, and she told me that we were different and we shouldn’t play together because they (white people) didn’t like that. My best friend was “white” and she asked me to come to her house for dinner and I did, but when we walked in her father said to her I am not feeding one of them, and he told her to tell me to go home and that she shouldn’t go to my house because it’s dirty and she will get head lice, and I didn’t even really know what head lice was, as I had never had it. I got scared and I ran home, I cried and I was so angry that day, I remember telling my mom that I wanted to be white. As I got older things in school seemed to get a little better and the school started to have special classes and even events for aboriginal kids. The kinds of things I have experienced as an adult are far worse than when I was a child and when

More about Discrimination of Aboriginal People

Open Document