How Does Mabo Show Discrimination

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Throughout this movie racism is a strong notable factor in Mabo’s struggle for justice. There are a lot of people experienced racism from everyday life. Protagonist Mabo sensed the discrimination from the pub and hotel. These two experiences of racism motivated him fight for his island. Through these key points, this essay will explain this topic as a deliberation.

Mabo experienced racism on daily basis. When he walked into a pub, everyone made a really long queue for get a drink. When it was Mabo’s turn to get a drink, but he was ignored by the person who worked in the counter. Mabo he felt angry and disappointed. Later he holded a board with a sentence he wrote ‘I’m not leaving until I get a drink.’sitting near the counter. That was a part of apartheid experience from his daily life. Therefore this was a part of prejudice story from Mabo’s life inspired his conflict for fairness.

Mabo and his family also confront a racism problem from the hotel. One day Mabo’s daughter drank kerosene, but nobody saw it. And then his daughter was crying, they realized she was in emergency. Everyone took her to the hospital to diagnose her situation. When the problem solved, it was really late at night. They wanted to find a hotel live for one night. …show more content…

Those two key points incited him to protect his land. He participated a lot of debates for those cases in the court. When he was alive most of people were against Mabo’s speech saying Merry island is not belong to aboriginal people, even showed on televisions. ‘We’ve been farming on that place before you mob set foot on the land. We handed it down from father to son. How can we not own it?’ as a clarification for Mabo when he was deal with the case. After he died the government finally said Merry island is belong to aboriginal people. This is a powerful clue show racialism was a momentous aspect for Mabo fighting for aboriginal people’s rights let everyone turn be

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