June 2020 - The Bougie Aunt

‘Defund the Police’ Is Not a Radical Statement

29Jun

By The Bougie Aunt1324 Comments

Government

‘Defund the Police’ Is Not a Radical Statement

The Bougie Aunt | Published 10:00 a.m. E.T. June 29, 2020 5 minute read Among the topics which have emerged from the recent attention upon the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM), is the roaring call to ‘defund the police’. As expected with reformist declarations, the slogan was met with mixed opinions. On the offensive for the statement were people seeking ammunition to gun down the recent social upheaval, like President Trump, who has purposely misconstrued the slogan to present it as the antithesis to law and order. While the defense has had to repeatedly explain, ‘defund[ing] the police’ is simply asking for funds to be redirected into other sectors that are lacking in endowments, such as education, healthcare, and mental health services. The defense’s contention is reasonabl...

We Cannot Talk About Sustainability and Not Talk About Race

24Jun

By The Bougie Aunt2556 Comments

Environment, Government

We Cannot Talk About Sustainability and Not Talk About Race

The Bougie Aunt | Published 8:00 a.m. E.T. June 24, 2020 Note: I am not a vegan/vegetarian hater; I just find some of the ideologies pushed out from the diets to be either hypocritical, propaganda, or both. Especially, when it is used to further sustainability. Recently, I published an article where I stated post-structuralist geography is the reason for Flint’s Water Crisis. Now, I am back with an additional point on how post-structuralist geography is morphing our environment; it is preventing the phenomenon of sustainability from diffusing to all socioeconomic levels. The fear-induced search for a way to conserve natural resources but also further industrial development began around the mid-eighteenth century when the Industrial Revolution emerged. Then, figure...

19Jun

By The Bougie Aunt3368 Comments

Education, Eurocentrism, Government

Juneteenth: An Uncelebrated Holiday

The Bougie Aunt | Published 12:00 a.m. E.T. June 19, 2020 The year is 1863, you are an African-American slave, and President Abraham Lincoln just issued the Emancipation Proclamation. You are ecstatic because that automatically means you and your other slave companions are all released from the bonds of slavery, right? No, you are completely wrong. But I can reason why, as the Emancipation Proclamation is often misunderstood, and consequently, taught wrong in schools. Since the Eurocentric narrative shapes the United States’s history of slavery to seem like a linear path where the starting point is the Transatlantic Slave Trade and cuts off immediately after Martin Luther King Jr. had his Kumbaya moment (that has increasingly become more whitewashed as the years pass), the...

Why Is College Board Attempting to Shorten History?

15Jun

By The Bougie Aunt13888 Comments

Education, Eurocentrism

Why Is College Board Attempting to Shorten History?

The Bougie Aunt | Published 12:00 p.m. E.T. June 15, 2020 The College Board has recently been under fire for continuing to host Advanced Placement (AP) exams online in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary complaints revolved around the College Board blatantly disregarding the technology gap high school students face, which only widened during the virus outbreak, and became apparent after a plethora of students could not submit their exams due to technological difficulties. However, this is not the first time the College Board has acted ignorantly. This past academic school year, 2019-2020, the College Board altered their AP World History class; they changed it to AP World History: Modern. As the name implies, the revised course deals only with history the College Boar...

Why Does Flint Still Not Have Clean Water?

11Jun

By The Bougie Aunt7724 Comments

Education, Eurocentrism, Government

Why Does Flint Still Not Have Clean Water?

The Bougie Aunt | Published 4:00 p.m. ET June 11, 2020 Post-structuralist geography, where the elite seek to control those below them through the means of conforming the physical space to ensure the elite’s power. I am just using my recollection of the definition, of course, but it does not make the term less true. Why? Well, let us reflect on America’s immoral history. During the 1960s, where the Civil Rights Movement really climaxed, legislation began to be passed so that everyone, regardless of race, creed, sex, etc. would have equal opportunities to certain fields. One such field was housing. Through the Fair Housing Act of 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson promised that the act would lead to a more integrated society. And was he right? No. President Johnson essentially w...

11Jun

By The Bougie Aunt1604 Comments

Conspiracy, Government

Who Are Anonymous?

The Bougie Aunt | Published 12:00 a.m. ET June 11, 2020 Anonymity usually has two polar sides. One of the sides is commonly associated with the status one obtains for the ability to spew any unpleasant words or actions upon (typically an unsuspecting) victim. The other, more enjoyable, side is the status one takes when they do not want to receive credit for work they have contributed to that tends to be charitable. However, in the new age of the media, the former has seemed to triumph over the latter through the following: an increase in nasty comments that are generally directed at an influential person or group of people, ‘receipts’ that threaten to expose someone or something if they do not comply to something previously requested, and a newfound culture that centers around ‘can...

Malcolm X: X’ed Out of the American Curriculum

8Jun

By The Bougie Aunt2501 Comments

Education, Eurocentrism

Malcolm X: X’ed Out of the American Curriculum

The Bougie Aunt | Published 6:30 p.m. ET June 8, 2020 The past few weeks have highlighted the tense racial relations in America. It has allowed for the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to be at the forefront of news, not only in America, but also globally. The newfound attention has also brought about a sharp divide in beliefs surrounding the best way to promote rightful change for the living standards of Blacks in America. One of the hotly debated arguments are the riots, whether they are reversing the work of the BLM movement or furthering it. Dissidents of the riots are often quick to cite Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of peaceful civil disobedience that enacted governmental change. Like Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms who said the riots were not “hono...