racism Archives - The Bougie Aunt

27Aug

By The Bougie Aunt8337 Comments

Government

The True Faces of ‘Mount Rushmore’

The Bougie Aunt | Published 1:00 p.m. E.T. August 27, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT NATIVE AMERICANS BY CLICKING ON THE LINKS BROKEN PROMISES The Age of Exploration (starting from the 1450s AD to the 1650s AD) triggered the colonization, and consequently, subjugation of indigenous people. Europeans seizing land that did not belong to them was justified through technicalities, like deceitful negotiations. The land removal was exacerbated, however, by the ideology most Native Americans possessed towards land. To them, land was viewed as communal rather than private; no one who acquired land truly owned it because it belonged to the Earth. Europeans were able to pounce upon that ideology and take advantage of it. The decimation of the Native Ameri...

19Aug

By The Bougie Aunt4345 Comments

Education, Human Trafficking

Debt Bondage Is Hidden in Plain Sight

The Bougie Aunt | Published 2:00 p.m. E.T. August 19, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT DEBT BONDAGE WORKERS BY CLICKING ON THE LINKS! WHAT IS DEBT BONDAGE? Debt bondage, also called bonded labor, is where a worker enters themselves into slavery through accepting a loan or falling heir to a debt. When a worker accepts a loan, it is usually through false promises by an employer that the worker can reimburse him/her. However, as time passes, and more debt acquires, workers find themselves in slavery - hidden in plain sight. If the worker was not able to reimburse their employer by their death, usually the employer will pass the debt onto a family member. Thus, making debt bondage generational. HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS TO DEBT BONDAGE Involuntary servit...

Give Black Women Their Credit! : Their Influence in Gynecology

7Aug

By The Bougie Aunt2295 Comments

Education, Media/Culture

Give Black Women Their Credit! : Their Influence in Gynecology

The Bougie Aunt | Published 10:00 a.m. E.T. August 07, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES/WOMEN WHO ARE RELATED TO THIS ARTICLE *For this article, I will be referring to Africans, African Americans, Blacks, etc. all under the collective term of ‘Black’. Otherwise, it will be confusing trying to explain all the nuances in each. And, this is not the article for that discussion.* HOW THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT IS NEGLECTING BLACK WOMEN The Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM) has contributed to an increased awareness of how Black lives are being negatively affected by their needs being not catered to or met. The movement was able to gain great traction within these past months because of the pandemic allowing more peop...

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...

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...