We can only start by recalling our ancestors, the ones who resisted, those who were ambushed by the kings, the ones that did not leave, those who lost their ears, the ones who were hanged, those who were enslaved, the ones who were whipped, those who were left to die in a cell, those who took the courage to rebel… denied even their right to exist, our ancestor persisted in existing and so we do (re)exist.