When a people are denied their very real existence in the now, the deniers of their existence could very well be denied their presence in the future.
The outcries against injustice are justified. Unarmed Blacks executed by law enforcement is indeed a crime. But let's face it: not all police officers are evil. Some are really out there to protect and to serve. They should not be included in the consequences of the bad. The same holds true for the ones that came to Turtle Island since 1492. Whether Black, Red, Yellow, or White, there are good and bad, regardless of race.
There is a race of people thrown into obscurity via historical myths, as well as, in the accounts of current affairs. This writing is not an attempt to "tweak" a collective guilty conscience, but rather, a call to a collective consciousness of injustices perpetrated against a forgotten minority.
This is the race depicted with insulting images in sports and cartoons; ignored in governmental/corporate land "deals", seen as myths in the "Flintstoneian" cartoon of the Hanna/Barbera-like American historical accounts read by children throughout the mainstream. They are abused and murdered, with no mention of the crimes, except when the crimes reach epidemic proportions, then briefly alluded to in "tsk-tsk" blurbs, and mostly unwatched documentaries.
We exist, yet are denied our very existence, because we are the "inconvenient truth" of a nation built on a corrupt foundation. Our ghosts speak in the Wind, and the Rain. These are the ghosts of both the living, and the dead. The Taino People say: Guakia cuan yahabo - We are still here. It is so. The mainstream cannot ignore our reality for too much longer, for as the Earth cries out against the very real crimes being perpetrated against Her, the factors that could mean the difference between humanity's very existence, and its total annihilation, are the ancient, and Sacred, Life Ways, of the ignored people of Turtle Island... what is now called, America.