Rachel Wong- Week 9

Rachel Wong
ASA 2 A02
5/28/17

In this week's reading, "Building a culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice," by Santos F. Ramos, discusses both negative ways in which non-African American minority groups have contributed to the Black Lives Matter movement. For example, the article discusses how such groups have created movements and showed support for movements such as #AsianLivesMatter, #NativeLivesMatter, or #LatinoLivesMatter which undermines the Black Lives Matter Movement. When other ethnic groups do this, they take away the importance, seriousness, and urgency in the need to address serious Black-White relations. It's not to say that other minorities do not have issues and injustices being done onto them, but creating #AsianLivesMatter sidetracks from Black Lives Matter.

I have seen some people who are not supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement on social media sites, such as Twitter or Facebook,  and post things such as "all lives matter," ignore the issues associated with the Black Lives Matter Movement. Instead of addressing the Black-White tensions, they are bringing up another point that is not related to the issues at hand. Yes, obviously everyone's lives matter, but that's not the point to be argued. The serious injustices experienced by the Black community has to be addressed.

In order for any injustices to be addressed, ethnic groups must be supportive of one another's movements. Minority groups need to support the Black Lives Matter movement in order for any change to occur.

Question:
How can ethnic groups efficiently support the BLM movement?

Citations:

Ramos, S. F. (n.d.). Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice. Retrieved May 28, 2017, from http://enculturation.net/building-a-culture-of-solidarity

Varner, Natasha. Despite History, Japanese Americans and African Americans Are Working Together to Claim Their Rights. 2016. PRI. Web. 28 May 2017. <https://cdn1.pri.org/sites/default/files/story/images/Black-Lives-Matter-Friday-1356.jpg>.