Santos F. Ramos’s article Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice speaks to the movements in today’s culture known as BlackLivesMatter and all those around the same principles of injustice in today’s society. The movements primary goals are to blantely and bluntly call out oppression in America as presented in the multiple killings of Black minorities in America as well as overall minority persecution of minorities compared to their white counterparts. Ramos leads the article with a personal experience before breaking down the death and respects accommodated due to deaths presented in social media through over use of police brutality. It’s through this that Ramos further idealizes
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This leads us to avoid engaging in isolated acts of solidarity and instead helps to sustain a culture of solidarity, one which allows us to subvert the status quo while simultaneously building love and respect for one another across cultural difference” (par. …show more content…
Ramos, in his article addresses these issues by proclaiming the ideology and result of white supremacy in our society and its effects on minority groups as a result (par. 11). With the topic of oppression, Ramos describes multiple accounts of racial injustices and how they affect the multiple racial communities along as how they are viewed in our society. “Because Indigenous social justice is not simply about striving for the right to assimilate into White hetero-capitalist patriarchy, Indigenous people are often not allowed to exist within the parameters of that which gets counted as "social justice” (par. 16). By directing the overall issue to white supremacy, Ramos expands on the BlackLivesMatter movement to gain communal representation as well with those also affected by the injustices in our society due to racial favoritism. Indigenous injustices and racial issues outside of BlackLivesMatter has the same qualifications to represent mass injustice within our justice and societal
This leads us to avoid engaging in isolated acts of solidarity and instead helps to sustain a culture of solidarity, one which allows us to subvert the status quo while simultaneously building love and respect for one another across cultural difference” (par. …show more content…
Ramos, in his article addresses these issues by proclaiming the ideology and result of white supremacy in our society and its effects on minority groups as a result (par. 11). With the topic of oppression, Ramos describes multiple accounts of racial injustices and how they affect the multiple racial communities along as how they are viewed in our society. “Because Indigenous social justice is not simply about striving for the right to assimilate into White hetero-capitalist patriarchy, Indigenous people are often not allowed to exist within the parameters of that which gets counted as "social justice” (par. 16). By directing the overall issue to white supremacy, Ramos expands on the BlackLivesMatter movement to gain communal representation as well with those also affected by the injustices in our society due to racial favoritism. Indigenous injustices and racial issues outside of BlackLivesMatter has the same qualifications to represent mass injustice within our justice and societal