it’s just like so weird cause a lot of tumblrisms are clearly stemmed from aave and then killed by non-black POC & white people hence their constant misuse and eventual overuse, until black people come up w more terms to use
terms like
- basic
- prayer circle
- thirst/thirsty/the thirst
- (example) game on point
- (example) game strong
- slay
- shade
- bruh
- hunty
- bae
- stay in [pronoun] lane
etc etc etc
stop usin aave just because you learned it on tumblr
you’re still not entitled to it and you’re especially not if you just use it to seem hip and cool and funny
cause what it boils down to is that you don’t use it for expression and you were not raised to speak like that, nor do you live around people who speak like that— you just use it to be funny in front of your friends and that’s the thing I don’t like
this is a good post and im going to go ahead and add that the very popular word fuckboy is aave and existed pre tumblr in the black community stop using it
you were not raised to speak like that, nor do you live around people who speak like that— you just use it to be funny in front of your friends
Something you learn, if you did grow up with AAVE - it takes work to learn how NOT to use it, to codeswitch into something ‘appropriate’ (Non-Black) for the sake of getting jobs, getting through school, getting past the border when you travel.
And even then you haven’t suffered anti-Blackness and you’d already know that, if you actually grew up with AAVE and Black folks.
I get twitchy watching the news or mainstream tv talk shows and hearing people say “bling” or “Baby Mama” and “Get your X on” etc. Because these phrases were first condemned, then mocked, now they’re becoming normalized while at the same time, Black people aren’t.