Guantánamo Diary By Richard Zuley

In 2015, the publication of a memoir called Guantánamo Diary has led many people to investigate the history of Richard Zuley. Zuley was a police detective in Chicago and later became a military interrogator for the United States and Guantánamo Bay. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of the memoir, reveals how he was a survivor of Zuley’s discriminatory and torturous actions in Guantánamo Bay. Slahi was wrongfully detained and brutally punished by Zuley in an attempt to a making Slahi admit to a crime that he did not commit. After the memoir was released, it was uncovered that Slahi was not the first victim who was tortured by Zuley. This left people wondering why Zuley has no morality or remorse for his actions. Anthropologists suggest that

Officer Nakamura, an officer from the academy, notes the importance of the recruits’ extensive training because it will allow them to “catch twenty-something basketball players [on the streets]” (insert citation). This suggests that police officers identify the young basketball players with young Black males who are running in the streets of the “jungle” (insert citation cause it’s not my idea). This incorporates the white supremacist ideology that racializes people of color, more specifically black people, as criminals. It is noted that police in the U.S. refer to Black people as “monkeys” and similarly thought of as “animals” and “savages” that defend their community like in a jungle (Beliso-DeJesu ́s 2020, 152). Minorities are deprived of their title and rights as a human and are thought of as primitive animals. This dehumanizing label of minorities gives police officers justification for being discriminatory and violent because minorities are viewed as animals that do not have the same emotions as humans. Zuley’s treatment of Slahi reveals how he viewed Slahi with the same animal-like characteristic. Slahi was previously associated with al Queda, but despite admitting that he no longer had any involvement with them, Slahi was judged by his religion. Due to the simple fact that he was a devoted Muslim, Zuley assumed that he was a terrorist. Not only is this claim racist, but it depicts all people of the Islamic religion as threatening and dangerous. The ingrained white supremacy in Zuley alongside the lack of understanding and respect for another race’s religion is why Slahi was wrongfully detained and severely tortured for 14 years. Another example of Zuley’s belief that people of color are animal-like was recorded. In Chicago, two people were shot outside of a club, and a Black man, Lathierial