Black Lives Matter Summary

Understanding Ramos Sentiments on Black Lives Matter "Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice" by Santos F. Ramos demonstrates his feelings towards the Black Lives Matter movement. He claims that other ethnicity groups are misappropriating Black Lives Matter to show awareness of their racial own issues not understanding that they are disregarding the Black Lives Matter movement. By doing research such as partaking in protest and talking to others he's able to use personal anecdotes to describe his views on the issues and come to an understanding of what BLM means. Ramos concludes the article by suggesting that communities should show solidarity with one another meaning that groups should deal with one issue at a time within their own group.
Throughout the article, Ramos discusses how the Black Lives Matter movement has made an impact on

It is a group that is saying "hey we black our lives matter too" and acknowledging that they are being systemically oppressed. One can admit that social media makes it easier for non-black organizations to misconstrue and take advantage of the well-known campaign of Black Lives Matter. With hash tags such as #BlackLivesMatter to #LatinoLivesMatter, #NativeLivesMatter, #AsianLivesMatter, or #OurLivesMatter it feels like other groups are not trying to discredit Black Lives Matter per se, but take away from the message of what Black Lives Matter represents. The author states "The general justification for appropriating the tag has been that, in addition to killing Black people, White supremacy also continues to kill and harm a lot of non-black people of color as well" (Ramos 4.) This is true but the justification for appropriating these tags is a distraction which draws supporters away from the Black Lives Matter movement and in turns feels like the support should be anything