All the Black people adopting pidgin into their vocabulary with things like “soft life,” but now we want to act like other Black countries can’t influence ebonics even through it being regional.
Black Americans don’t assimilate or take on other cultures like foreigners & immigrants do. For the most part we exclusively operate in our “cultural boundaries” but assimilation is how they maneuver through the world, so we’re looking through a vantage point they haven’t reached
@JuiceLaRock Lmao obviously Africans don’t stick out bc you had to bring light to it. Also there is a lot of things BA borrow from Africans including using be as an adverb. Like “I be chilling”, that comes directly from pidgin English
@kwabena1992598@cutesy_kuromiii you don’t get to dictate how we should feel about people inserting themselves into OUR culture. Y’all are way too mf comfortable
There’s a serious conversation that needs to be had about other Black people feeling the need to dictate black American culture, especially when it comes to Ebonics. You can participate in black American culture while still being respectful and a lot of of y’all can’t do that.
@aavenb So an AFRICAN American woman calling out white people for appropriating AFRICAN American Vernacular English is a problem for AFRICAN Americans because she's also AFRICAN???