Good lord I just came across a video on YouTube of a white man calling himself thoroughly explaining the origins, structures & relevance of aave/ebonics & ppl are praising him for this in the comments like,,,, he's not basically educating other races of ppl on a public platform as to how to appropriate our vernaculars? How to mimic us down to textbook guidance no one asked for?
It rubs me so wrong cus he's casually delving into slavery & its intersectionalism w standard English & im just sitting there like ....but what kept you from leaving this to the ppl that actually belong to the culture & community? Why do you feel you have a right to make content like this — & "educate" as if you have all the information? You & other non black ppl would've never dreamed of taking black culture as faux-seriously as yall do now to keep up w what you deem today's trends — which, a lot of the time & weirdly enough, is more Black-focal than cultural in any other ways at all.
Criticized us even as children for speaking aave when a lot of us were growing up. It wasn't "proper" English; the grammar was off; it was "ghetto". Black ppl are not out here educating other black ppl on the relevance of Welsh or Swiss-German. I am so tired of non blacks in general butting tf in where they don't belong around our things. How come white ppl aren't more focused on educating other whites ab white history that has already been made, if anything? Yea, esp the racist stuff. Why yall so focused on tryna "assimilate" by just copying us like theres no tomorrow & endorsing other races speaking like you've always harassed us for, then calling it "diversity" & "internet slang". Its weird as hell. You have your own, cultures; white ppl & nbpoc alike.
Like good lord, black culture belongs to Black, People. What is so hard ab leaving our things alone?? Do yall really not see how exponentially hypocritical it is for billions of yall to have been so comfortably antiblack (for generations centuries at that) before blackness was so relevant to many of your favorite trends — for yall to turn around & so possessively emulate any & everything that's ever been associated w us while still depriving us of actual rights to black culture? Like wtf non blacks be weird as hell nowadays. Make me not even wanna speak around em period cus even if you don't use aave around em they've gotten to where they use it casually like its theirs anyhow. I be so lost. This is not yalls.
