Pre-Semester Reading Response

Pre-Semester Reading Response In Santos F. Ramos’s article “Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice,” Ramos focuses on what it means to be in solidarity with communities to address social issues, like, racism. He discusses that solidarity is “…a process of more fully putting the works of communities of color into relationships with one another” (Ramos 7). He explains about how solidarity means for different groups of people to be involved in issues outside their cultural community.
He uses Black Lives Matter as an example to support his claim. Ramos explains that there are trends starting whose purpose is to support and be in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. These trends include, #LatinoLivesMatter, #NativeLivesMatter, etc. However, Ramos clarifies that these hashtags does not explain what being in solidarity means. He clarifies that “…Black and Latino …show more content…
I agree with his points when he explains that to be in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, you must incorporate anti-Blackness within your own community (Ramos 4). I agree with Ramos’s claim because I believe that movements like, Black Lives Matter, tackles general and broad issues such as, racism, and in order to overcome these social issues you need to do more than just focus on your community. This is because racism does not just affect one group of people, but all communities of color. After reading this article, one challenge and question I have is would solidarity be the answer to end racism. From this article, I concluded that solidarity in some way would unify communities that are struggling with similar issues, however how would being in solidarity with other communities put an end to racism and is there even ever an end to