sheabutterbitch:

I really wish y’all would understand that AAVE is a legitimate form of English just like Gullah and Patois and isn’t just a bunch of random words thrown together like fuckboy and thot…

It’s really insulting actually that you guys think of it that way. Whenever y’all comprise lists of what AAVE is it’s literally just a bunch of slang that you hear on social media with no mention of how some of us say “yo” instead of “your” or “finna” instead of “about to” or “gone” instead of “going to” and those are the words that deem black people unintelligent most of the time because it’s not just a bunch of cool catchy sayings that young black people use. So when people think of AAVE they just think it’s something related to being a young black person because all that slang is only used by us.

My grandparents use AAVE, my mom uses it, it holds a lot more weight than just calling people fuckboys…