Symbolic and realistic threats contribute to greater ingroup bias. I am living that right now.

Centuries of oppression on my people have left us clenching our identity, tight-fisted and stubborn – refusing to die. A thousand attacks on my people’s land, homes, welfare, and existence have forced us to will ourselves beyond the imaginable.

They shot us down, drove us out, pulled out our insides, and tore at our skin, and we walked on. Silently, at first, but with a growing cry of thunder, “We will not be damned”.

And now, with a few loose handshakes and an imminent contract into the EU on the margin, we are on the verge of losing what little is left. And I can’t stand to see it.

This cannot be the end. Not another massacre. Not another genocide to be denied for another century.