In “Exceptional Violence”, Deborah Thomas describes how colonialism and slavery play part in the current violence against Jamaican people. What these 2 chapters reminded me of is also the violence against indigenous people. Indigenous people also had very unfortunate history involving colonialism. After so much time, indigenous people are still targeted and so much violence is targeted towards them. Another similarity I noticed is that Jamaican women are often exploited especially because of their ability to give birth and thus provide more labor. For indigenous community, this is true also. Indigenous women are one of the most targeted and exploited groups in the world. At the same time, their bodies are most valuable and able to provide the most but also most mocked. I am wondering what other global patterns we can observe when we think about marginalized groups.