These horrific words are utterly minimised, if not erased. What s so sad is that my 16 year old nephew - despite my efforts to present other narratives than the whyte one form his whyte English mother and her side of the family... simply brushed aside my points about the mass murder of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and of Africans and more recently, Arabic peoples, and said,'well all empires are like that - the Aztecs killed people as human sacrifices, didn't they? "