If popular unrest could be mounted against white supremacy and its symbolic and systemic purveyors, then perhaps a similar front could be launched against one of its most ominous modern strains—the War on Terror. More than twenty years after its creation, it was the Black Lives Matter protests and the collateral possibilities for progress they inspired that seeded the belief that a global war that seemed never ending could be slowed, or even stopped.

XREF: Connects popular uprising strategies historically used against white supremacy to the possibility of targeting the War on Terror as a related systemic phenomenon. SEED: Potential essay angle: how movement-building against one form of systemic oppression inspires tactical playbooks for others.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1157