Mass protest can move US majorities toward anti-racist structural politics.
Evidence
In the context of mass struggles against neoliberal priorities, from the anti-globalization/global justice movements of the 2000s to Occupy Wall Street, the public can be won to a platform of progressive and even structural change. Indeed, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020, as much as 67 percent of the US public articulated support. Race scholar Robin D. G. Kelley noted the multiracial character of these protests in contrast to earlier periods, which had fewer whites. We might say that such protest movements, with deep organized roots in the community and in workplaces, have the capacity to move majorities in the direction of an anti-racist, anti-imperial, and anti-capitalist politics. The strikes of essential workers lacking supplies and support needed to deal adequately with the Covid pandemic were also an important part of the rebellion of the summer of 2020. Thus, in the heart of the imperial matrix are contradictions in the form of social forces that can not only challenge but also potentially tear the system down. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 762
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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