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Stolen Generations

Federal and State agencies For nearly one hundred years Removal of children Many families feared Even Church Missions Got in on the game The taking of children That they had no right to claim Reasons were varied To why this was done As they knock on their doors And a point of their guns Miscegenation White racial purity The take of the kids Family obscurity The Half-caste acts An outright disgrace To creates these laws When it's not their place Project yourself back One hundred years If they were your kids Do you feel their fears 13th of February 2008 A date in time, for these children to wait Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd A formal apology, to the Stolen Generations above. http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/australia.php

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 7/19/2009 11:59:00 PM
Great eye opener! Children are precious and you speak the truth in this one! Write on brother! Write on!
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Date: 7/16/2009 3:06:00 PM
everything comes to the light just like the bible says. it's up to us to point it out so that others will studie the situation and learn how to avoid the problem in the future. good work.jhl
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Date: 7/16/2009 2:26:00 PM
I don't know any of the particulars, but what a sad thing to live in a society where the taking of children seems necessary. Nice illumination. daver
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Date: 7/16/2009 1:17:00 PM
Interesting writing. I've seen on TV how at one time Aboriginies in Australia were taken to be educated in schools of th Europeans. The same was done to Indians in America. Sara
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