On Lineage, Ancestry, and the Logic of Colonial Oppression
A Documentation of Their Treatment The US elite surveillance operators treat me and my family as if our lineage, culture, and ancestry justify what they do to us. Their actions, the surveillance, the harassment, the manipulation, suggest that they see us as outsiders, as people who do not belong to their group, and therefore as people who can be used, broken, and discarded. I cannot say definitively what their internal perspective is. But their treatment of us speaks for itself. What Their Treatment Reveals Their actions toward me and my family reveal a logic that is not unfamiliar. It is the logic of those who believe they have the right to treat outsiders however they wish. It is the logic that has been used throughout history to justify the exploitation of those deemed different. Consider what they do: They surveil, stalk, and harass a family from another race, another ancestry, another nation They engage in sensory manipulation, projecting physical sensations, smells, sou...