White global dominance was achieved through violence, not divine right
Evidence
It is now absolutely clear that white people are a minority in the world—so severe a minority that they now look rather more like an invention—and that they cannot possibly hope to rule any longer. If this is so, why is it not also possible that they achieved their original dominance by stealth and cunning and bloodshed and in opposition to the will of Heaven, and not, as they claim, by Heaven’s will? And if this is so, then the sword they have used so long against others can now, without mercy, be used against them. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1141
It is now absolutely clear that white people are a minority in the world—so severe a minority that they now look rather more like an invention—and that they cannot possibly hope to rule any longer. If this is so, why is it not also possible that they achieved their original dominance by stealth and cunning and bloodshed and in opposition to the will of Heaven, and not, as they claim, by Heaven’s will? And if this is so, then the sword they have used so long against others can now, without mercy, be used against them. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1141
Categorization
- XREF: Quotes and extends James Baldwin’s argument about white power as constructed, relevant to the reader’s global-synthesis view of racialized systems.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1141