Black People, You Don’t Own This!
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I keep seeing TikTokers calling white people out for using black slang, also known as AAVE (African American Vernacular English). Why do black people feel the need to gatekeep this language, and do they even understand that it actually originates from low class white people? Let’s get into it.
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I miss the times when education was the goal to strive for
People still strive for education, including kids who use “finna” and “ain’t”. There were two girls in my class who spoke like that and both were in beta club and gifted.
AAVE shows a severe lack of education and maturity. It's a language reminiscent of the baby language we all used when we were toddlers and still learning how to speak like adults.
To claim it as inherently black and gatekeep it..... is the height of ignorance and folly. Or, as someone else might say, "Y'all buggin'!"
It seems like people who want to learn after they get out of school is like nonexistent, because I never wanted to learn while I was in school but as soon as I got out, I wanna learn all the new things we’re living in the age of ignorance
Brandon pricey. if you were educated in past years then, sorry, one doesn't end a sentence with " for," A preposition.
And standards.
I wish we could live in a world where the only race was the human race
edit: Look mum im famous (thanks for the likes)
What about nascar?
that would never happen and if it did that wld b such a bad world
What do you have against aliens?!
We do, it’s just that some haven’t cottoned on to that fact yet. 😅
never going to happen
I have to laugh! I am a 60 year old white Southerner and if I had a penny for how many times my generation was corrected to proper English, I'd be beyond rich. Thank you for setting this straight. Language is living and is such a beautiful gift to connect cultures. I wish more people would see the beauty in the very fact that human beings can talk.
You're the treasure of American, my friend! 💰🇺🇲
I would've posted a treasure chest, but no emoji for that. 😆
This is what I’ve always said. This type of speech is definitely a southern thing of all cultural backgrounds. If you go to the south everyone talks this way.
Amen.
I remember growing up hearing people tell southerners “Ain’t, ain’t gonna get you nowhere.”
@@edwardweaver6869 ain't, ain't a word is what I was always told 😂😂😂 it's a bitch, ain't it 😂😂😂
I’m white but growing up literally more than half my friends were black. Especially my close friends. I spoke like them. You literally pick up language and slang from the people you hang out with. A community is not determined by how you look. I was part of their community. My best friend would tell everybody I’m his adopted white brother
I loved your comment. It made me giggle. I love it that your best friendship sees no color. We need more of this.
You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
That’s beautiful.
A community #IS determined by how you look IF and #ONLY if it is a #RACIST community.
Exactly agreed
I genuinely believe this country may choose segregation at some point in a year or two.
As a metal musician, I don't want anybody but metalheads to say "BLEGH"... also, no headbanging.
As a hispanic person I know demand nobody can use any words derived from Spanish or with similar spelling. 😂😂😂
LOL no one should be using AAVE.
These people are just goofy. Let's just determine what other people can and cannot say. Right...
This is like how my ex-wife would get upset because I had a stronger Maine accent than her. She was born and raised in Maine, where as I wasn't.
As someone whose native language is a Romance one, you're not allowed to use anything derived from Latin. Not cool. 😂😂
we start gatekeeping all vernacular or slang the south is gonna come for me for saying "ya'll" every other sentence and I'll die on that hill
This just proves that as species we are doomed.
Oh my God, I think we have bigger problems
Why would you want to purposely want to sound ignorant and thuggish.
I have so many thoughts about this. I didn’t realize that Ebonics is now culturally insensitive. AAVE is Ebonics. As a white person, I would not use AAVE because it makes the person speaking seem uneducated. I realize that it is cultural in the black community and because I’m a culturally sensitive person, it doesn’t bother me. However a white person speaking AAVE just sounds ridiculous to me. They are usually white girls dating black men who want to fit in. I hope I live to see the day when we can all just be comfortable and happy being who we are and doing what we want without judgement from others. But bad grammar is bad grammar and nobody should want to own that!
I was with you until you claimed it was bad grammar! Bad grammar to who? Whites? And why would we give two fucks what you think. You are our enemies we don't give a damn what you think
Believe It or not there is a grammar system in AAVE, you can tell there is because if a person doesn't speak it correctly, everyone instantly knows.
It’s super funny how for EVERY OTHER CULTURE, it’s respectful to learn and speak their language around them.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
@@Jay57T AND a way to join in, become part of the community, be UNDERSTOOD!
I'm white, all four of my grandparents (2 from Denmark, 1 from Sweden and 1 from The Netherlands) learned English IMMEDIATELY! Their parents insisted and it was a matter of pride and respect! Two I never knew but the other two came over as young adults and they didn't have accents as adults.
Dude that’s SO SO SO TRUE!!! That is such a valid point. 👊🏼
I literally quit a job on day 1 because of that crap. As part of their diversity training, they had this privilege questionnaire. Things like "Have you ever held back from expressing your cultural identity" or something like that. Because I'm Russian, my answers must've made their thing think I wasn't white, so it started on this massive slideshow talking about being proud of your culture and not hiding it. I guarantee, if I came in the next day wearing a telnyashka and a blue beret, I'd be in the manager's office in under 30 minutes, but it's cultural expression. The paratroopers a massive part of Russian martial culture, so much so that their founding anniversary is a holiday in Russia and there are numerous songs about them. Even anti government artists like Viktor Tsoi couldn't help but mention them, because there is not a single Russian born in the last 80 years who did not grow up surrounded with Soviet propaganda around the VDV. Certainly has far more to do with my cultural heritage than all the black power crap has to do with Africa
The thing I hate about this whole “anti-racist” crap these days is that they’re actually trying to dictate how you must act and speak based solely on your race. They don’t even understand they’re the ones being racist.
You don’t understand
@@frilledgyaru291 if you have an argument you’re free to express your opinion, or do you just have short stammers with nothing to actually back your comment up with?
Extremely well said. Your comment deserves more attention.
@@leewolf6434 Yes I do,and do you have the confidence to ask for a further explanation or are you just gonna be rude and snarky,which is honestly gonna make things worst for you and you’ll just get blocked.
@@frilledgyaru291 oh no. Not blocked 😱 how will I go on with my life. Does that answer your question about being snarky?
And clearly I was insisting an explanation so go on then.
How is it okay for people to be openly racist? I’m listening.
Whoever said we don't need education was lying!!
we don't need no education
@andrewbrown620 Are you aware that the beginning of your sentence is lowercase instead of uppercase?????
@@andrewbrown620You also forgot about your period at the end.
@@earnestpeeplesjr8948Bro it’s a TH-cam comment
Leave those kids alone...
I’m white but I live in Hawaii, I always notice myself using Hawaiian slang or “pidgin” (pronounced like pigeon) as it’s called here, whenever I’m talking to my Hawaiian friends. Changing the way you talk around certain people is human, it’s how we socialize. Trying to gatekeep accents and slang will only make socializing even more difficult.
There's even a phrase for this that I learned in an English class: prescriptive language. It's when you choose your words carefully based on your audience for both being accepted enough/fit in to be heard, and also so that they best understand you. You're not gonna talk to a child with big science words if you want to explain why the sky is blue. You're not gonna use slang when writing an essay (well you could nowadays...) or a professional email. You're gonna use the appropriate language that your audience is best at receiving.
The people who advocate for this kind of thing do not want what you want. They want socializing to be impossible. They do not want unity or Equality. They want vengeance.
@@almerok damn right. I honestly feel bad for them, they must be so miserable
That my friend is called “moke”
What I find hilarious is that the White folks who talk like that are trying to fit in with Black America! And they're are probably prejudice against Conservative White folks! Now they're being told to stop it by Black Americans! Such irony! 😀 😅
I’m Japanese and I don’t call people bigots or that they culture appropriate by eating sushi watching anime or dressing up in kimonos. It makes me happy that people like it. Why are people such a snowflakes these days🙄
I wish I knew, man. I wish I knew...
I ate sushi the other day and it was fucking delicious. Please be offended and start gate keeping sushi from horrible white people such as myself who can appreciate your culture
Come on, it contributes to many people and to society! It's for everyone! Maybe it came from Japan, but it's for everybody!
Because, who doesn't like anime? Anime is cool, even if a few don't agree with me
Thank you! I'm that white male trucker who eats his food with chop sticks simply because I like eating with them. I've even been known to pull them out at Italian restaurants. I have had Asians see me eating with them smile and give me the thumbs up.
I've been told by some my love for anime and Manga and liking Japanese food is cultural appropriate cuz I'm a white girl I'm like can I not admire a culture without it being seen as weird I've tried explaining there's difference between appropriation and have a genuine respect and admiration of a foreign culture
I am rural Scottish and I noticed most of AAVE is very similar to the regional dialects in the UK. For example, the famous 'In da house' "da" for "the" is a Aberdeenshire word for "the". We say "beefing" in the UK "she had a beef with him".
I also am Scottish. The language came from Scotland , Ireland and England. The white southern language that came from Britain.
Also Scottish; I find it unbelievable that "aye" was on their list, which is so obviously Scottish in the modern day, but is also used in so many contexts like politics where the usage is archaic.
@@scottish_centrist indeed!
@@Verdent777 Thomas Sowell has an entire series of videos on this topic.
Thomas Sowell makes that very point in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
As a greek, I now want nobody to use words that were derived from the greek language 😂
lol good one. lol I always said "English" was a bastard language
@@BillionaireBryt every language is though, they all orginated from those first grunts. We're all culturally appropriating the caveman 🤣
oh sorry, the cavewoman, cave-trans and cave non-binary, smfh. What is the pronoun of the caveperson
@@neanda Er/Ug
If you were allowed to do that, you'd be able to start millions of lawsuits because Greek has been hella influential. 😂
So...almost the ENTIRE English language 😂
As an Englishman, I know that even old folks in rural areas of the UK use this kind of language now. It is common in various dialects. You don’t have to be a lexicographer to realise that these things have absolutely no connection to black culture whatsoever.
AAVE actually comes from Scots and Northern English, that's the irony of it.
Yeeeeah. I'm Scottish and aye (pronounce eye) just means yes. Sorry we've been using that word a lot longer than the US has been around. And bile in place of boil would be "go bile yer heids." Seems we exported a lot of psychos to the US and they took up position in the south 🫤.
@@nixi7688 What?
Eh?
Yeah I'm seeing mega Scots influence in that glossary. We tend to have glottal stops and run things together just because it's just the way we speak. So white becomes whi'. Butter becomes bu''er going to becomes gonna or gonnae.
Crivens, that's embarrassing.
@@nixi7688 North Yorkshire white girl here. Didn't really have much influence from other cultures where I grew up, since the town I lived in was suuuupppeeerrr small, and even then I mostly kept to myself because of all the squaddies (army people) living in the town a couple of miles over. "gonna" "wanna" "ain't" Bu'er", "wa'er" are very much in the North Yorkshire accent. (guess the more North you go the more pronounced it becomes?)
Fun fact... if you try to get a full accented north Yorkshire person to say "Cup" it either becomes "Cuup" (think almost an 'oo' sound) or "Cap" that shortened "uh" sound simply isn't there.
Another fun fact. I confuse a lot of people in America when I type to them online until they get to know me simply by using the word "sommat" (something), again, just sommat I picked up from living in North Yorkshire England
As a white southern girl surrounded by Georgian vernacular all the time, I always find it hilarious when people attribute slang to a race rather than a location or culture. Half the words on that list I hear down here all the time
I'm white, 68 years old, born an' raised in Georgia and ain't 'bout ta change the way I been talkin' all my life!
I'm a Georgia boy myself and I heard a LOT of words on this list growing up, especially from older folk...black or white it didn't matter. If someone told me to my face "ain't" is a word I can't use cause of some f'd up logic I'd probably laugh in their face and tell them to do ACTUAL research on where that word came from.
Exactly and in the Bronx is much more intense if u don't talk like this you'll honestly be made fun of i was called white even by other Hispanics even if i speak Spanish and it was cuz i spoke "white" which is literally just me getting educated and using higher vocabulary
Exactly!!! My brother and I realized years ago, that anything deemed “black” was just the way we eat, talk, and socialize in the South. It literally is a southern thing that blacks took with them they migrated elsewhere. Go to the backwoods, swamps or outer banks and you’re in for a real culture shock!!! SMH, ignorant people
Maybe people attribute it to race because that particular location/culture is centred about a particular race.
Yep, the Southern language especially in the Appalachian South was greatly influenced by the Scots-Irish who used slang terms that are now considered AAVE.
Nobody slangs or is it slurs like the scottish am I right? Just painting a happy picture like Rob Ross.
Appalachia is beautiful by the way.
I think Appalachian is more influenced by the west country accent, i believe it is the only English accent that still has the rotic r
My family from the west country constantly use I be, you be, even how be for how are you,
How be on, me lover? And things like, Gurt big ain' it? I remember an uncle describing riding a motorbike where 'she were on the back of I'
Anyway...
Truth. Historical linguistic fact. Also N Britain & Wales. It was their language that 1st & on from there newly arrived “trade” adopted. Now claim as “Ours Only.” Nope. UK owns that too. Aiiight?
As a black woman, I’m not claiming illiteracy as my culture.
Facts.
Amen to that, right?! I'm puzzled as to why anyone is even taking claim to this in the first place
I heard that. Anyone wanting to not be taken seriously should cling to this goofy pidgin.
I love you. Stupidity should never be encouraged.
@@period8705 period.
I'm seriously too old for this. I'm 60, and I grew up in the fields of southern Alabama. I'm done!! These people need to get a LIFE!
This tickled me. When you're too mature for nonsense🤣🤣🤣
Uh oh, you said "field". That's an offensive word now.
What people?! Hopefully not the people that are still being label unintelligent for speaking that way, while other secure DEI positions for using “social media language”
Agree
@johnscott9180 John I don’t give a damn about African languages nor Africa thanks
I'm a biracial woman who grew up in a lower class neighborhood in NJ. It was mostly black, but there were also a lot of white and hispanic families there as well, and I had friends across all groups. We all spoke the same, but as we got older we gradually learned to talk "professional" for school and work settings. Recently, one of my white friends I grew up with was sharing how she slipped into more relaxed speech with some work friends, and a newer coworker accused her of cultural appropriation. She responded with something like "Yeah, lemme go tell that to the people I grew up with back in my hood," and apparently the coworker thought she was being EXTRA offensive and reported her to HR. The whole thing got dropped eventually, but only after my friend basically had to share her life story. Also turned out that newer coworker grew up wealthy and didn't think white people also lived in poor areas. Ridiculous.
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 WTF
Hope she's fine now
I would have sacked the new person
Ridiculous
Ignorance is widespread
most average american
I had never heard of AAVE and when you started going over the "glossary" in the beginning, I was thinking, that sounds like southerners to me. BINGO.
Exactly! Sounds like the south to me
Exactly. I grew up in SW VA in the '90s, a lot of kids (any kids) spoke this way. I didn't, never have, it doesn't come naturally to me and sounds like nails on a chalkboard (to use a massive cliche). But to have its own glossary! *spittakes seltzer* 🤣
"You do not own language. You do not own words." Mic drop by Amala. Keep speaking the truth Amala.
Much love from Bakersfield CA!
Liked her. She is REALLY EDUCATING uneducated folks.
What about the english language? Who created it? ANGLO SAXONS. What race were the anglo saxons? WHITE! They own the language and we own the slang that comes with it. Our race is like Shakespeare, we create new words nearly every hour everyday! The n word we twisted it into something less traumatic to us. Just admit that we made your language more interesting and vibrant. We created our own language out of your colonial language.
@@kookysis2741 No. AAVE is created by white southerners, just like English language. Does that mean only white people can use it? No. Does language belong to anyone? No. Does someone or some people own language? No. And lastly, using the video as source for this question: did black people create AAVE? NO. Get over yourself.
@@byeebitch let's say they did create AAVE. it's not the same AAVE as black AAVE. urban dictionary was dedicated TO US. every day you'll see a new word made from us on urban dictionary. chicago got everybody using their new words.
@@kookysis2741 Where does the N word come from? Spanish.
The only dialects that prevent others from speaking them are thieves cants.
Who coins the most words? Scientific analysis tells us Teenagers, of every background. Yay teenagers, getting up to stuff.
In the UK for instance"Roadman" (an accent shift and a dialect) has 17 words for stab (wet etc) and only derogatory words for female, cultural enrichment?
Btw English is a long way from Saxon for complex reasons, most intellectual words are Latinate, Greek or a hybrid.
Vocabulary = focus. A minority of teens commit crime but many more teens adopt the vocab to "fit in." Linguistic larping.
dont forget locations! I’m latina, but very white-passing. I grew up in queens, and I’ve been surrounded by black people, along with many other cultures, my whole life.
Of course I’ve picked up the dialect! Not even to “fit in” but certain phrases considered to be AAVE are literally just a part of my natural vernacular.
I said this in a Tiktok comment and got bashed for it. It doesn’t matter that I’m latina and a native spanish speaker, or than I literally grew up around aave, but because I appear white it’s “insensitive” and I’m a “culture vulture” for doing so… 😐
Edit: Of course I know hispanic/latino isn’t a race,it’s an ethnicity. I said “white-passing” bc alot of people, including “woke activists”, forget that. They assume we all have tan skin and dark hair, and someone like me is automatically “less” hispanic solely because of my skin color.
If I looked more “traditionally” hispanic (which there is no such thing), for some reason no one would care if I spoke with AAVE or certain slang. These activists are unironically more racist by doing and gatekeeping certain things, not realizing culture and language extends deeper than the amount of melanin in our skin.
That's just crazy, I'm brazillian and when I was improving my English, I watched a lot of shows and I had talked to people that used AAVE, so I got used to certain words and expressions. How am I supposed to know I'm not allowed to speak words I am used to use?
@@xterzinhax don't let anyone tell you, what you can or cannot say. These people crazy, tryin to tell folks what to say
Good thing TikTok isn't the voice for all black people. Because we definitely do not all share these sentiments.
These are the same dorks who wouldn't go after AOC for blatantly doing it either. She was going hard in the paint when she was pandering to black people. It was so bad it was obnoxious, but she has that (D) credibility, I guess.
Sorry that happened to you what video was is i wanna see what they said
The word "finna' meaning fixing to etc, has been used in British and Scottish slang for centuries before European folks ever ended up on American shores.
Truth❤
Love the "y'all finna be pissed when y'all hear that" 😂 I live in Tennessee, in a predominantly white area and EVERYONE talks this way. And they think me having a Yankee accent that I'm the weird one. People need to stop gatekeeping in general!
Isn't "finna" just a weird contraction of " fittin' to be"? Kind of like "gonna be"?
@@kimmieb2u fixin to be, but yes.
Exactly. I grew up in rural NC. Everyone spoke this way where I'm from.
@@trinitym5552 sure if you say so. 😂
@Kc Bizzanelli it's short for "fixin to" which means "about to"
As a German, nobody is allowed to say the words Hamburger or Kindergarten 😂
What about frankfurter? (Do we get away with it if we call them franks?) :)
@@saraleigh5336 Have at it. You may also use all the other lean words and I hope you'll appropriate as much of the German culture as you want! I'll even point you in the right direction: look up Spaetzle recipe. It's a type of noodle, super easy to make and very delicious.
I think if Germans would come in. English will have to give half of its grammar as well😂😂😂
@@MistaViknever mind the French. There goes another chunk of English. There goes our Lieutenants!
@@TheChadPad of course, French will get their piece as well🤣
I use to get ridicule as a child because I was a black person and talked too "White". When I became older I realized that my family talked "Black" mainly because it was taught to them by my Southern grandmother and pass along to us and I talked more "white" because I paid attention to standard English and Language classes at school. Later when people would tell me I spoke like I was "white" and "too good" aka 'boujie'. I would respond, "No, I talked like Martin Luther King Jr, Langston Hughes, and Malcom X." Then I would point out the word "boujie" come from bourgeoisie - a French word that means "middle class" and I learned that by paying attention to history class and how to pronounce it because I took basic French language course - LOL🤣
Love this!
UGH I love this sooo muchhhh❤❤❤❤❤
As a french woman, I learn here that this term of "bourgeois" is used like this. Interesting as language goes...
Thank you for the information !
Lmao as an Asian who grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood and schools, they would always tell me I sound snobby and posh just cause I spoke proper English like who told y’all not to pay attention in school
Great response!
I'm English/Celt born and bred. If people of any culture, nation or colour want to use it (or gatekeep it), let them, it sounds bloody awful anyway.
Aye who wants to talk in that awful sounding unemployed language.
As a English Southerner your telling me I’ve been culturally appropriated. 🤣
That is too funny 😂
they're even taking my beloved yo.... on second thought, let's just fuhgeddaboudit. unless they claim this one too.
Fr fr. I've lived in the deep south for my entire life. I have a southern accent that can sometimes sound like " AAVE" I sure hate all these people appropriating my language first.
My family is from the south. My grandparents, great grandparents (that I met) all talked like this. This ridiculous shit trying to gate-keep language hahaha.
I can feel the more recent ones or... whatever. But no gatekeepin is goin to take away the way I talk just because some ratty little kids gonna try and pull up some bullshit about how its "theirs" and I cant speak like I have my whole life
*dropping G's at the end of words apparently is also considered this.... AAVE whatever. Most of the words on this list I'm looking at, and checked in on, have their roots in *CHECKS NOTES* white subculture from various parts of the world. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
😂Your Welsh heritage was culturally appropriated. Sowell explains this in his essays.
Yup!
I am a southern lady, born and raised in Texas. This kind of language is just what I grew up with. “Y’all”, “She ain’t”, “He ain’t”, “Oil” being pronounced as “Ol”, double negatives like “Ain’t nothin’.” That’s just how we have always spoken. Now, I’ve already learned to cover an accent to be taken seriously, and try to speak eloquently to get my point across as clearly as I can, but that can go away in an instant if I’m around family. And being told I can’t speak like that around family because people want it separated by race, is not only racism in itself, but telling me to get rid of part of MY culture as well
100% ain’t is a southern this
Moved to Florida from Michigan when I was 17. Had always been taught to never use ain't and I don't. But found y'all to be the perfect word!
Yes and it came from Britain 🇬🇧
You can speak however around your family. Why are you even acknowledging other people's standards for your own family? If I tell you that your family cannot eat meat, would you stop? Same logic.
I’ve never had an identity crisis. A crisis is the rent is due and I ain’t got it.
I'm Indian, and I feel immensely proud that yoga, meditation, Indian cuisine, and Hinduism and Buddhism are being used all over the world. I absolutely love when my friends state that they meditate or do yoga. I wouldn't say you're a racist bigot appropriating culture. I would say to go ahead, and explore my culture. I would be immensely flattered. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Right s
Yes, it is beautiful that the world has taken up your culture & your ok with it. However, your culture has never been stripped from you. Black peoples culture has been taken away and were left with NOTHING! They are simply attempting to create a culture that they can call their own, without someone else stealing it. Maybe others CAN use it in time, but can blacks get a moment to build a culture first?
@@holisticlifestyles4u guess you skipped the part in history where the British empire invaded conquered them everyone lived in a cast system under British law and traditions up until WW2 where they finally got their independence. Every culture has been enslaved only Americans think their special in this history.
@@holisticlifestyles4u Black people are not the only culture who was the victim of colonization and slavery. Vietnamese people suffered from the Chinese empires for 1000 YEARS!!! We got invaded and colonized by France, UK, Japan, and US. But at no point in my life that I have thought that I should keep my language, food, etc. from my culture to be shared with the world.
This is definitely "race baiting" . I have friends and family that are black. I use the same words they do and they use the same as I. I know there are various dialects in different parts of the country. I never thought of it as being just black or white- it's just English. I do think If I was to say someone was to say that certain words are only to be used by specific ethnicity groups, I'd say that's racist
All those phrases make you sound ignorant, like you were not taught proper English.
I'm a Nigerian and here in Nigeria, most of us are usually amused to see non Nigerians attempt to speak Pidgin or our native languages (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa). I don't know any Nigerian who would bully non Nigerians into "leaving our language alone". So I see these people gatekeeping language and it just makes me cringe
Edit 1: Whoa! 1k likes! Mind blown!!!!
Abi
@@joan_007 😂
Is it true that africans actually despise african americans? If so why exactly? Granted the types of people in this video are a perfect of example why, but I've been hearing this for years now...way before the woke army took over! Any truth at all to the claim?
Idc for africans 😂😂😂 im black american only
@@DoctorDiqERDown this is why they hate your ass 😂🤣
These folks segregate themselves. They crave being victims.
facts
Because that way they can guilt trip people into feeling bad for them, i dont feel bad for them at all because i personally didnt do anything they want to blame white people for, im on 38 yes old, but in my 38 yrs of livibg on this planet i've seen more crimes commited by black people against black people then ive seen white people against black people
"Were tired of segregation!"
"Eww white people"
marx said constant revolution. in the 70s they fought against separate but equal. not they fight FOR it. see how it works? this will never end. they will never be sated because they are trained to always move the goalposts.
@@babayaga1767 Could you clarify, I’m not sure I understand your message here. I’m comprehending: separate but equal was enough. I don’t want to misunderstand you here.
I’m a Korean who moved to Texas. I use most of these words on the daily because that’s how I learned English. They’re quite literally just slangs based on location. What happened to learning languages and dialects being respectful? We don’t bar them from learning Korean or the Gwangju dialect. Why should AAVE get special treatment?
Texas is happy to have you here and have you speak any way you like. I’m not from Texas but was welcomed here also.
I say just spread joy in any language or vernacular you know.
Texan here, just wanna say as long as Y’all are respectful y’all can talk anyway you want, happy to have you here 😄
Blacks are being used and played by the Left as they always have been since slavery. Many are waking up and many are still digging their own graves lije the Left wants. Divide and conquer is the Lefts game. Same with LGBT ect. Theyre all being played. They will all be chewed up and spit out. Just like theyre doing to women now with the trans crap.
Because the people who are descendants of colonizers over descendants of slaves, have been profiting now more than ever. It’s been taken too far to the point where it’s now trendy and pop culture and “cultural appreciation.”
It’s late, and tired.
@@DeathtotheAshes it's slang. they can use whatever they want unless it's hateful.
Using racism while claiming there is racism is circular illogic
everyone is finding new ways to be angry I swear.
And new ways to hate whites. Expanding the repertoire of Hateitude towards people that show them only kindness.
The theme of the 2020s. Manufacturing oppression
When your living depends on finding racism, you will find racism. It's a grift that will be profitable as long as there are suckers.
I never thought I would live in a society where black people own certain words but women don't own the experience of having a period...scary
What are you talking about of course women own periods.
@@Petrol_Sniffa they're talking about transwomen aka men, claiming that women dont own periods
@@dragonsman4733 Yeah but they're not men so that's obvious
@@Petrol_Sniffa they are men. A woman is an adult who has xx chromosomes, and has periods due to her female body and organs naturally getting ready for children. If you see a transwoman aka a man, having periods, he isn't having them, no medicine that trans women take changes their natural organs or body that starts it. It just means that something's wrong and you should call the hospital immediately. Common cases unfortunately for trans women that have so called "gotten periods" have been cancer, which in most cases causes men to bleed.
@@Petrol_Sniffa you must be sniffing petro if u didn't understand what I meant by my comment lol. We live in a society where transwomen aka biological men think they can have periods and they aren't exclusive to women.
I'm English, British but I don't care who speaks English, we don't own any language.
I totally agree I’m an American and I’m so sorry that happens
Ok Paul but tbf the reason people speak English is bc England forced them to speak English
@@norahe1953 True enough, but you can't hold that against the English these days cos it originally happened years ago.
@@paulhems4048 oh I’m not holding it against you friend.
Finna is southern not black
Most of ‘black dialect’ is southern people are so fucking dumb some of us gatekeep shit that’s worthless
🤫 theres no room for logic here .
Fixin' to....
I was finna say.
I was born in Georgia, I’m finna say finna whenever the fuck I want, and I got a 12 gauge for anyone who finna try my life like that.
@@PapaPhilip bout to
I'm a Latina from Texas. Here in the greater Houston area EVERYONE says "finna". It doesn't matter their age, race, anything. I find that language police type of people are almost always hypocrites. One time in particular stands out to me. A coworker of mine started an argument with me because I said something along the lines of "Do you want anything from PF Chang, I'm finna get some lunch?" This woman preached to me for 15 minutes of how I'm not allowed to talk that way because it oppresses her people. Meanwhile, she openly called people "cholas" & "cholos" for no reason other than them being visibly Hispanic. She would say things like "chanchlas" & "sancho" in a way that sounded like she was mocking the words. She was all kind of offensive towards Hispanic people, but God forbid anyone speak in a southern dialect around her. Even pronunciation would set her off sometimes. I swear, some people are just so bored or angry that they need to make up problems...
I don’t use any of those words and phrases. “I’m finna to learn how to speak without sounding like an idiot.” Instead I say “ I was getting ready to ( not finna or fixing to)ASK YOU if you could open the DOOR so I can hear the BABY ( not Bae)
@Opal Black you're "finna" get the attention you needed from posting that ig. Be blessed 🙌🏻
Why is she so fkn ignorant lmao 😂😂😂
THE MAJORITY OF CHOLOS ARE INDIGENOUS AMERICANS WHO DESCEND FROM THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MEXICO. THEY ARE NOT “HISPANIC” AND MOST DEFINITELY ARE NOT ETHNICALLY LATINO. FOR THE UNEDUCATED/ CULTURALLY BRAINWASHED AMERICANS ESPECIALLY NORTH AMERICANS REAL ETHNICALLY LATINO MEN AND WOMEN ARE RACIALLY MEDITERRANEAN SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF ACTUAL LATIN ORIGIN! 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION, MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF FOREIGN LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED. YOU CAN NOT BE PART OF AN ORIGIN, HISTORY AND ETHNICITY WHICH YOUR ANCESTORS FACTUALLY ARE NOT HISTORICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR
Hispanic isn't a race though
As an Irish descendent I want everyone who is NOT Irish to stop celebrating St' Pat's day. Get your own bloody drunken holiday.
Done 👍
It's weird that we know you're joking just by your race, lol
LOL! Got a good chuckle out of your "et your own bloody drunken holiday!"
I'm Swedish / Irish can I still celebrate?
If you're not a hypocritical social justice crybaby, calling every thing Cultural Appropriation. feel free. I love it when people are interested in any culture enough to enjoy it learn about it and try to take part. That used to be a compliment, now you get canceled for it. @@tweachiemercer1589
So....I'm a white skinned Aussie. I worked at an airport along side other amazing staff from all over the place. I LOVED exchanging slang or words from my Nepalese mates and learning from them and what they grew up with...and those people loved learning from me too and the Aussie slang I know. It was fun and brought us closer. What is life even about if we can't learn from each other and be inclusive.. this kind of behaviour is ridiculous. It's making people more apart than we ever have been in my life time..
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I'm the same. I love it when other people use "my" Australian slang, and would never want to stop others from speaking that way.
All of this. I’m so saddened how separated we are becoming now. Such group think and mob mentality.
Ethnic Australians are white skinned idk why you had to phrase that 😂
@SJD326 Australia is a melting pot of cultures and birthplaces. We have many accents here, just like America, but the stereotypical "Australian accent" is used by white people more than other ethnicities.
I was an online coverist in the Kpop community and I was yelled at for being white and using aave. My grandma came from the south and I love her so much and she’s 80 so knowing I don’t have much time with her left I do hang out with her more. I picked up her way of speaking as well as the way my friends (both white and people of color) spoke around me. After explaining that I was still bashed, to the point I wanted to literally kill myself. I was cyber bullied, by people, because most people where I live speak broken English and I do the same… this world has become so, so broken
Same! I am a kpop stan and I get so much hate whenever I use AAVE and being asian
That community in general is just a total mess of ‘progressivism’… the problem is that they refuse to even consider that you can progress in the wrong direction.
I can solve your cyber bullying. Get off the internet. Spend time with real people who love you and not NPC trolls who you'll never meet.
Most of these people are just trying to get a reaction out of you. Anybody that is beneath you will always try to pull you down. Tell them to kick rocks and talk however you damn well please! You are perfect the way you are!! ♥️
@@thecouchpotatocom NAH FR THO I HAVENT INTERACTED WITH THEM I JUST DECIDED TO VOLUNTEER AT THE ANIMAL SHELTER INSTEAD AND ITS SO MUCH FUN HOEVHOWVHOSVHOSVHOV
i find it annoying and absolutely disgusting how people claim they want racism to end but in the same breath they keep spreading it. as long as different people and cultures keep isolating themselves from others be it language , beliefs or cultural fashion they continue to keep racism going. if another person of a different culture wants to learn my culture , then i want to learn theirs . this is how different people are able to coexist , it gives them common ground to work on .
So true.
It's easy to understand what's going on when you read real history (as opposed to the new fake woke leftist history). Real history makes one aware that the members of the KKK were the Southern Democrats, that the lynchers were Democrats, that the Jim Crow laws lovers were the Southern Democrats. That's why leftist wokers want to badly to rewrite history, and they have done exactly that. The textbooks that children read, are filled with lies about how awesome Democrats were and are.
Lyndon B Johnson (President Kennedy's VP - also a Democrat) instituted welfare to get blacks to vote Democrat so Democrats could have a huge majority, but what none of the woke history books mentions is that Lyndon Johnson called blacks "N____s" always and constantly when the cameras were not around (people who worked for him have written books and have said as much), Democrats were (and actually still are) the biggest American racists that ever lived.
In fact, Democrats don't like mentioning Abe Lincoln (Republican) nor any of the Abolitionists (nearly all Republicans) because that would open the door that it was Republicans who fought to abolish slavery, while Democrats had a civil war against the Northern Republicans for several reasons, but the biggest one was to keep blacks under the yoke of slavery. The South was rife with Democrats.
Abe Lincoln abolished slavery, and Southern Democrats fought him at every turn. If you read real history you'll find all that. Once slavery was abolished, the Southern Democrats fought to re-enslave black people, but all they could come up with was Jim Crow laws. Eventually they gave up, but they fought it all tooth and nail. All that has been erased by woke leftists. Leftists would rather die than have the real history revealed because then they wouldn't have blacks voting for them.
But back to history: unable to get blacks enslaved again, the Southern Democratic South came up with new ways to benefit from blacks: the biggest one was to get blacks to vote for Democrats in exchange for free government money. It was a very effective way to make blacks forget all that the Southern Democrats had made their ancestors suffer. Black people forgot all that right away and never mentioned it again.
True.
Or you know, just don't make fun of people's cultures
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@@sarahm9723 don't mock people lol
Here in New Zealand the indiginous Maori people very actively encourage everybody to speak their language, the managed to make it an official language of New Zealand and consistantly try to get it more widely taught in schools which I think is good so gatekeeping language really confuses me. When people take the time to learn and use your language I see it as a sign of respect. Thank you for your content I am finding it very informative.
When more people speak a language and get involved in a culture, it keeps it from dying so it's great that they're doing that.
The Maori tribe and people are a special and beautiful gift from God and to our world that every human should learn about!
@@megannoe2057 You sound like my mother! She adores Maoris even though she never set foot outside of the UK.
This is jaw dropping for me! In the UK every county has their own vernacular and other counties copy it. It's funny and respectful at the same time. I love the variation on the English language. But I must admit to being fussy about the grammar. I have to admit though, some of us just do not sound good using language that we aren't born with. No matter how hard we try, it just doesn't sound right!
Respect and inclusion is _not_ what the Left IS or is about....fear and loathing, more like.
I think it´s time for me to stop using Social Media and start a life without this whole bs. It´s so weird how everything is evolving and the loudest are always the dumbest. It´s so nerve wrecking.
Yep I'm off to have a life! This is too crazy!
Nerve wracking is the phrase...but I like your variation!
I completely agree..this is just stressful how these people get so much attention and following
not evolving. Devolving.
This is what it looks like when we have an entire generation that has absolutely nothing to offer society
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Yep. Pretty much
Best comment on here.
Kind of believe that
@Dem0cr4ts are responsible for Jim Crow From the low-education areas of Britain.
This reminds me of the Richard Pryor skit about teaching your kids to talk wrong on purpose, because it's funny. Go to the bathroom? "I wanna Mambo Dog-face in the Banana Patch" 🤣😂🤣😂
I can't stop laughing about this whole aave thing.....didn't know this existed 😂 Girl, you are so right....nobody can gate an entire language. Some of these AAVE phrases I, a middle class white girl, grew up knowing as "Southern jargon"...simply how everyone talks in the south of the US. So if I ever offended anyone by saying "I ain't", I aint apologizing haha.
In (standard? regular? common?)English grammar there is a theory held by some that "ain't" is an acceptable, correct contraction for "am I not." My 0.02$. I find Language fascinating.
@@theresas740 your “two cents” is written like this: $0.02. Dollar sign is written on the left. 😊
Back in the early 1980s I encountered linguistic studies that had been done about the remnants of Elizabethen speech patterns in poor Appalachian communities. I have no doubt Dr Sowell is aware of these studies. I've read arguments that the song "Shortnin' Bread" is not connected to antebellum slavery at all, and its true origins lie in the Scots-Irish living in the Tennesse Hills, which seems to corroborate Dr Sowell's assertions.
Excellent episode.
A lot of "Ebonics" or now "AAVE" is quit literally poor uneducated white folk banter.
Imagine if those southern Americans got their English from the North of English instead. "Eeey by gum lad, that nowt good, so put paper doon un come t' pub."
@@T0mat0S0up Much of American Standard English comes from the northern UK accent. One example of this is how we pronounce the "A" in the word "bath." TH-cam has lots of great videos discussing this.
Yes! I’m born and raised in the Tennessee Appalachian mountains and my papaw always sung “Shortnin Bread”… and we were never slave owners and grew up in an all white area.
Baby's little mama got shortnin shortnin, baby's little mama got shortnin bread
As an Englishman my language has been appropriated by 3/4 of the planet. I'm cool with that.
Good thing because think of all those who wouldn't pass elementary school if the teacher were English speaking and only some students had to use aave....good Lord!
It's not "appropriation" when it was caused by colonization 😒
@@JaysWife double standard
I can't believe you think English being beaten into colonies all over the world is now appropriation.
Lol confusing “appropriation” with “imposition”
Well since they bastardized that from the English language we have to insist that you stop using English.
I think people who grow up in certain areas pick up whatever language from that area , and certain words become part of popular culture become wide spread and can't be contained to those areas any further.
I was surprised when I found out lots of pop culture words go back to our grandparents time
Nobody owns language, sounds, or affectations in speech. More wokesplain nonsense
Yes because the US government forced African Americans into the inner city ghetto and every new immigrant group on top of them.
@@HonorableSienna that is a factor, but to my larger point is that a person doesn't matter what ethnicity will pick up on the culture trends and regional dialects. Take the term ghetto for instance, it is usually associated with African Americans in the U.S. but it also has two different historical contexts that I'm aware of, in Italy they used to wall of Jewish settlements to keep them isolated and so they could enforce curfews imposed upon them. And then again in WW2 before concentration camps were built Jewish people were relocated into ghettos. This doesn't take away from what the term ghetto means today, it's just that languages evolve and mix and with the world becoming smaller do to social media and instantaneous access to information and cultures from around the world it's actually just a matter of time before we use a universal language, like Swahili in certain regions of Africa or Mandarin language in China, one that encompasses numerous words from different cultures and countries
Pretty sure they didnt know english before being in America so kinda silly to call it their own
I'm Asian (Indonesian) and I love learning about other people's languages and cultures. But I've been becoming more cautious in the past recent years, because I feel like people get offended easily nowadays about almost anything. One of my friends in Germany (she's German with African ancestry) had this cornrows hairstyle which looked good on her. When I complimented her, she offered to do my hair as well. It didn't look good on me (because I'm just ugly in general 😂), but it was a fun one-day-experience. We took the underground to meet our other friends, and that was when this random black man suddenly started screaming at me in English (clearly not a German) for "disgracing the black culture". My friend had to step in and they had a loud argument about my hair, people were watching in confusion. In my country, most people would feel "honored" if a foreigner tries on Indonesian traditional styles, clothings and other stuffs. We think of it as a culture appreciation, rather than appropiation.
black people just really really want segregation apparently...
They forgot that the braid was taken from Viking, it is not even theirs, like wth
These people are truly mentally ill!
Same. My ex bf and his sister were black Dominicans & she wore her hair often in cornrows. Once their mum made me a high ponytail with cornrows it was a nice way for us to connect as well. Basically I went out and got screamed by a black girl as racist … it was also in Germany lol
Imagine believing braiding was never done by anybody but 'black people '. Lmao.
As a white person who lives in England and was born here I can confirm that the language spoken in this video is of southern English origins and made its way all throughout the youth of England, Scotland, wales and Northern Ireland in fact I myself used to say these words when I was in school 😅but I quickly realised that it doesn’t particularly make you sound very intelligent and I stopped using them preferring to speak in proper English
I’m from London and a lot of the slang we use here is from the Caribbean originally especially Jamaica and we also adopt some AAVE, however if you’re growing up in a multicultural area of course people of all backgrounds are going to be influenced by each other’s cultures and use these words… it’s not that deep!
Jamaicans were heavily influenced by Irish, geordies and Westcountry pirates. What goes around comes around
@@Guttlegob as a geordie i notice a lot of the language is the same as geordie slang and they say i can't say it when i brought up there born there. who do they think they're we need more geordies fight back the only thing i'm a offended is them telling what i can or can't say when i been saying it my whole life. like bruh
@@Guttlegob where in his comment did he mention Jamaicans and what you said is not true all those people you mentioned especially Irish have no culture or influence in the world but getting drunk and complaining about being English. Caribbean culture and way of life has got nothing to English or Irish. Stop making stuff up.
as a 54 year old white man, I was using "yo!" to greet friends about a decade before most of the people "claiming" it as belonging to black culture were born, and I learned it, while in high school in a non-English speaking part of Europe.
The Police songs had a lot of yo :-)
Yo, Ho, Ho, and a bottle of Rum!
"Yo" as used in the military is an affirmative. . Then we get into yoyos said to have been the invention ( no patent pending) of very old dudes in what is now The Phillipines and used to bonk enemies. Go finna
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If they aren't speaking in clicks and pops then they are speaking some European language.
As a Dutchman it is just sad and funny at the same time to see what certain people in the USA apparently want to spend their time or even their life on; policing language, policing behavior, policing appearance, etc.
Thanks for the interesting history lesson, by the way.
Meanwhile, your leaders are spending their time finding new ways to make you guys starve. Frankly, I don't know which is worse. You're just destroying yourselves quicker than we are, but at least that means you might get to the recovery sooner
I hate it here sometimes. I wanna go back overseas where my mom used to live lmao
Well you could be in canada or other countries where they literally arrest people for those things.
We have this too, if you're a "tatta" and you start using slang the fur collars will be looking at you funny.
Woke Inquisitiors.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is crazy as a non white and a non American I always thought people who spoke like that were just uneducated. I didn’t know it was a racial or cultural thing. You truly do learn something new everyday.
Well, it is uneducated speech. You were not wrong! It can be slang in many areas though. NOT proper English. It's political BS mostly.
Its exactly from being under educated, even in the South. Educated people use good grammer, regardless of their color or where in the USA they live.
Actually it isn't.
Some of this "stuff" actually came from south of England.
The irony 😀😀
We have different slangs in my language most of them are seen as uneducated rumbling and bro language
@Lx, Portugal
“Ah yes. Let’s learn the English language and then get mad when we cannot control every aspect of that language because it hurts our fragile hearts.”
The good thing about the crazies is that they're easy to spot and avoid.
As an African, I don’t think that just because you’re black, that that automatically makes you AFRICAN. YOU’RE NOT.
Yes there's huge differences in between Africans and blacks. I work with both. The people from Africa are very respectful and hard-working. Where is a majority of the american-born Africans are lazy and disrespectful. This is just what I see at my place of work though. Js
Indeed my Nigerian friends hold this positive stance. To be Sub Saharan African is unique. As much as being a Mongolian is.
There's no such thing as African American anymore . Only American. All the African Americans died 100s of years ago .
As a North African that is definitely not black YES THANK YOU
I was born and raised in east Africa. I am African. I am also white. There are a fair few white Africans around. The actors Richard E Grant and Charlize Theron. Princess Charlene of Monaco. Numerous sports people. Dr. Barnaard who performed the first successful heart transplant. We're no less African than a black person born in the UK or USA is of that country.
I lived in France for 2 years recently. Of course, out of respect, I didn't dare to speak French while I was there and I was very offended when they spoke to me in English. I also did not eat any food or buy clothes for the two years or breathe any of the French air. I kept my eyes closed for the entire time as I did not want to appropriate the French culture of enjoying their own countryside.
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Right on!!!!
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Im from India and my native tongue is Tamil. Any non-Indians who speak even a little Tamil are celebrated here and Tamils feel flattered when somebody non Tamil speak it. Im super proud of my 7000+ year old language and dont understand how you can get insulted if an outsider speaks it. Imitation is the best form of flattery right?
Someone trying to learn ANYTHING other than what they already know should ALWAYS be celebrated. We used to call it being "cultured". Hmm...
im tamil too! tamil is THE oldest language on Earth and if i saw a non-indian speak tamil it would probably make my whole day! just seeing my language on t-shirts or logos makes me unbelievably happy!
@@rainy2233 I'm Marathi and I feel the same way about my mother tongue (it's only 1500 yrs old, so much younger than Tamizh)
Abhimani Marathi
Vaazhga Tamizh
Bharat Mata ki Jai
Exactly!
But we have some black racist fools over here. That believes they're Hebrew Israelites. They get into the belief, accept it. Then try to racially badger other people that they're the only chosen race, that everyone else is going to hell, even babies are going to get slaughtered & everyone serve them. 😆
The only ones that trip about culture appropriation in America?
Is racist black Americans!
I have a friend who’s Indian . She started Jui jitsu with us. So I learned a few words. So when we would spar I would say something in Tamil. She’s stop I would take advantage and get the tap. We laughed because she found it nice and flattering. But also so the tactic as it got me the tap. She basically said the same as you. It’s more about being able to communicate.
I am a 50 year old working class black American man, but I grew up mainly in the suburbs of Seattle. I code switch sometimes when I am amongst other black folks because it feels comfortable. But, I never use it in mixed company.
You are so right about the Thomas Sowell. Just go down south, white southerners and black southerners sound almost identical!
Almost identical or exactly the same?
As a geriatric nurse, I have patients of all ethnicities, often times with dementia. I often speak to dementia patients in their own accents, vernacular, and languages (I've picked up on a lot of different languages over the years). It often helps patients understand you better and let their guard down and I've honestly never seen anyone get offended by it. We just live in a culture now where everyone has to walk on egg shells.
As you noticed in the clips, it's usually people of younger generations that are acting like this.
I’m not walking on eggshells for anyone. I simply ignore the morons of society, like the woke moß, and the ldiots depicted in the video who believe they own certain words. I’m fed up with the ßS being propagated by lmßeciles.
That's actually really sweet. Thank you for sharing that.
I did similarly😏 Old folks are enjoyable to be around... MOST times
Truth 100
I am a Black woman, and not once in my life have I used AAVE. My parents taught me and my siblings to speak eloquently and clearly because, as they said, they wanted us to be repectable, educated, and for us to have many job opportunities. Both of my parents never used AAVE because they said that it made Black people sound dumb. There isn't a standard way a Black person should sound like, and I think it's stupid that so mant Blacks speak in AAVE. Speaking English doesn't mean oppression, it just means that itbis my native language (not some African language because I'm not African.) I also speak some French and German.
I'm an African American woman and I have never heard of AAVE in my entire life as a 32 year old. The fact that this is an actual thing is insane. My mother taught my siblings and I to speak clearly and eloquently as well because it showed that we were well educated and in my mom's words "Not from the ghetto/uneducated." She wanted us to hold our heads high and be respected individuals within society. I was teased back in the day for learning how to speak French, Italian and Japanese (beginner). I agree with you that speaking proper English does not mean oppression.
You also write beautifully. You had good parents.
I totally agree with you and you should be so proud of your parents!
I guess Ebonics lost out to A.A.V.E.
Amal’s, you are the very best!
There's an old belief that if someone is mimicking or copying another, be it mannerisms, language, style, etc., then it should be taken as the ultimate form of flattery. People need to chill out and just be nice to each other. 😂
Yeah but in some cases like blackface I don't think that would be okay but language is a free ballpark
@@cjkitten6292 agree as long as people aren't making fun of each other
Agree respectful copying is what is alright... I think we should respect and embrace the positive beauty and knowledge within cultures and the wonder of creation/life together, all the things we can benefit in sharing together, valuing all walks of life... in all of creation. We are all part of the universe and have our place and deserve to honor and respect that in each living being❣️🙏🕯✨️🌌☮️🕊
That's the point whites use to make fun of how we speak. And talk shit. Now they all wanna speak as we do and been doing for years. Now that being black is popular
As a young black girl in a predominantly, white neighborhood and school I was taught what is seen as proper English. I was made fun of by my more Chicagoan family members. I later realized that I was not speaking what they understand as “white talk”. I was speaking, correct, English. I’d then also grew to understand that their lack of ability to speak correct English was predicated on southern language, not black language, I encountered many, southern white individuals who spoke similarly, if not exactly the way that they did. I later completely disassociated black language as more of a regional language, if anything.
Exactly
Isn’t it sad as a black educated girl, You got shit on? That’s crazy. Almost like they want you to stay on the plantation and not move forward n life. Good for you tho. Keep on keepin on
@@cosmoswatching4007 I think it's more on a stereotypical way. Some people expected her to speak how black people talk. But yeah, personally, if I think something is odd, I just keep it to myself. Unless it's something of danger 😅
@@yuujin2490 Some of the vilest racist BS I heard about black people are from other black people. I had a black friend who spoke proper English and he was always made fun of by other black people for "talking white". Also, if he had his own views on the world and how things should be done he was called a "house *****" or an "uncle tom" or any other despicable BS. It's aggravating when some people think that if you don't share the same political views or views on the world then that makes you "not a real black" kinda like Biden's "if you don't vote for me you ain't black". I feel awful for him and others in this situation where your existence has to be validated because you don't hold the "acceptable" views to have as a black man/woman.
Good for you! I literally just made a comment about what a shame it is when any intelligent black person would dumb down their language just to avoid ignorant family or friends comments, being a cracka, or Uncle Tom. I wish, more than anything, that blacks were never ever taken as slaves, especially not brought to Europe or the Americas! The intelligent ones would have probably come over on their own in the 1800s when Europe was doing the same. And then The United States as a whole would sound more intelligent without Ebonics and the poor excuses to speak incorrectly.
I'm 69 year old white British and have used "the bar is on the floor" since I was a child. And if somebody wants to 'gatekeep' a language DON'T try it with English which has words and phrases from several different languages and cultures.
It's a high jump/pole vault/gymnastics term isn't it?
English men are the biggest language gatekeepers on the planet. They not only believe that they control spelling but also pronunciation. They don't. No matter how hard they try.
Correct, English is an amalgamation of so many languages. So why should any one group have a monopoly on any part of it when they use all of it?
Yeah, there are so many words in English from other cultures that were adopted, such as pyjamas and velocity.
@@queenofredania6076 America and Great Britain. Two nations, divided by a common language.
I'm an Englishman, and have never heard of AAVE, but in my 58 years have heard and used many of the examples given. Surely, language "gatekeeping" is the biggest oxymoron there is. Language is for communication. Gatekeeping language use is only a way to block communication and cause potential misunderstanding and possible conflict.
Thank you for educating me on this subject young lady!
Aave is the same thing as ebonics.
@@suprlite its a US thing, as an englishmen, it makes sense he wouldnt have heard of it.
@@DellikkilleDI am a 62 year old American. This is the first time I have heard of AAVE.
THANK YOU!
@@wmason1961 you never heard of ebonics? its just a renaming of the same old shit
Every single video you put out, you teach me something. I love it. As an older woman you're definitely making history great again for me. Thankyou Amala.
♥️ your comment also has 2nd hand effects beyond Amala. Despite the sentiment that we live in such a horrible time where....many kids I imagine are let down in trying to be imaginative and do something courageous or just trying to do something to help out with their community/neighborhood etc....
If an impressionable child or young adult were to read your comment, I'm sure both you and I can imagine how much that will lift them up.... and encourage them to pursue whatever they wanted to do to benefit the world around them
..no barriers.
Thank you.
-violin teacher
P.S. I had no intention to make my comment harder to understand considering my run-on sentences. It's late--my excuse. Thank you.
🗣️🗣️I am a Speech Language Pathologist and AAVE is African American vernacular English, there is nothing wrong with using AAVE and many people regardless of race speak AAVE. AAVE is characterized of different verbs sentence structures. Just like how all people who speak Spanish may not speak the same dialect. Some people in that community may structured of verbs or sentences slightly different. Now I do believe it is also appropriate to ""code switch"" in some instances to be understood by others who may not be able to understand AAVE , to complete task as recommended by your job/school. Mainstream English is usually taught in schools and is widely recognized in America. I do believe mainstream English and African American vernacular play a vital role in there are places in which both ways of speaking are appropriate
They mixed southern, urban, and ebonics that has nothing to do with real African Americans and Southerners to create their own slang. TikTok is not a language.
I Live in the south. Everyone talks what leftists call 'black' here.
It's not slang. It truly is a real dialect. I'm not gonna rubber stamp the list they had, but it is real. They shouldn't try to gatekeep it but it actually is real.
It's a mix of other dialect which make it slang.
@@AllFlimmits yeah but it isn't 'black' though. It just isnt
As a white girl raised in the South, I have my professional voice, speaking to my elders voice, speaking to my kids voice and my talking with my friend's voice. It's the environment I was brought up in. After 50+ years, "I ain't changin' ". Even the foods my family ate is refered to as "soul food". I call it southern food. Next people better not tell me I can't have that!
Same 😁😁
You can't have that! 😉
💯💯👍👍
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 I agree with soul food is southern food. Down here in Alabama everybody seems to love fried chicken and collard greens
Every other culture in the world DOES NOT CARE if you cook or eat “their food” but apparently here, it’s a problem.
I know companies that will not be interested in you if you use ax instead of ask. If you want to use slang or aave in your personal time that is your prerogative but don't do it during an interview.
Saying aks instead of ask sounds so stupid to me.
“aks” is not AAVE. it’s just a pronunciation of “ask”.
Here's a black pill for you: I'm a college instructor and as I was being trained to run my own classroom, we were actively discouraged from correcting people's use of dialect in writing. So actually a paper written in AAVE wouldn't be corrected these days because English departments have been highly infiltrated.
Mind blown
When my bad grammar and writing is just AAVE 😎
That is scary - when you are paid to teach proper English - the "powers that be" continually evoking the dumbing down of America
Great way to make black people to look stupid. Regardless of what “aave” is is just an excuse to make blacks look dumb.
You should be fired if you don't correct it
Thank you Amala! As a white southerner, I have ALWAYS used this language. It’s just natural for me to say. So when I heard about AAVE, I was so confused and worried I had been doing racist things all my life…
You were worried about doing racist things or you were worried that other ppl accuse you of doing it? Inside you should know if you are racist or not, it's not about the words but the feelings and the meanings. If you are sure you are not racist, don't doubt about it.
I grew up mostly in the South. I have Southern family and Northern family(Yankee, as my step grandfather called himself). I grew up in the DFW area in a smallish town and have used Southern vernacular/slang most of my life. I'm 42 and moved around while my husband was in the Army and never heard using it was racist until recently. I've known for a long time, though, that a lot of the Southern vernacular was based on English and European languages, as well as some foods they try to claim. This gatekeeping crap won't work with me.
Nope. You've been living your life. The people bitching about "cultural appropriation" are the racists.
I'm 37 and have always lived in southern Virginia; this is language I grew up hearing as normal. As a task for a college English class, I once tried to break myself of saying "y'all", with no success. There are still things I do try to correct myself on though: Ex. "ain't", just because it is not proper English as Amala pointed out.
@@ElenaV.1314 "Ain't" literally started among low class English and Irish. You can even see it in numerous songs. It even was used in American propaganda during the world wars to try and appeal to the lower classes, who always make up the vast majority of any volunteer army. Given that blacks were barely even allowed into the military in WW1, I'm sure the people writing that propaganda would be very confused to hear that language tied exclusively to black people
Thing is both Southern and standard English can be considered "white" and "black" because both groups speak in both dialects. We need to stop causing division. Most important thing is that we are people who genuinely care about one another.
Yeah but when black people came off the boats they had their own African language, while white people from England were speaking AAVE in North America all ready, the black Africans never heard English or broken English before; black African slaves learned AAVE from white people that invented English to begin with. Those are the facts that she is talking about here, because some African Americans are attacking white people for speaking a language that they invented. Other than that I agree with what you said.
Thank you Amala for calling BS on double standards of modern racism
As a linguist, I laugh at that. You can't stop any slang or vernacular from spreading. English is the biggest second language in the world. Kids way far outside USA will pick up something from a song and will use it with zero suspicion that they doing something wrong, because it's cool. That's what cultural success looks like.
As a limguist also, she entirely missed the mark. Especially calling AAE bad english, when the sentence strcture almost mirrors entirely west african languages, including "i be, you be, they be" whixh is the Present Continuuous tense" and its also a recognised dialect but i digress.
Cultural success off of a people who are victims of slavery and systemic oppression is crazy. Where the fuck in America is this experiment of mixing a success? No fucking were
@@KaentukiTheFuki So how do you explain that it also mirrors southern and western English sentence structure? Do any of these west African languages have roots in English?
Cultural success? I think you spelled colonialism incorrectly.
@@bhavikasicka7871 I thought African Americans had a culture to call their own? The hip-hop etc which has really put African Americans on the map for the rest of the world is definitely a culture which has had a huge success worldwide.We can say success because of its popularity.Plenty make their living from this popularity.
I've lived in the southeastern US since I was 7. So many of those "examples" of this AAVE (that I've never heard of) are just normal vernacular here in the South. I'm around a lot of 50+ white southerners born and raised here. I was so confused. I'm glad you pointed out the English roots. I already knew the foundation of the southern accent was from English, too. Accents are cool. :)
Especially y'all that one is super contagious
Yea I'm in ga, some of that is southern
@@samroth4794 most of it is southern, and quite a bit is from when France owned a chunk of southern US. black people didn't invent any of it.
Most of aave is southern bruh 😂
I'm from California and we talk like this. Lol I've used ain't and y'all for almost 30yrs
I simply adore that those whom love to screech about cultural appropriation are literally claiming another ethnicities culture as theirs and no one else can use it.
YES!!!!
Why do so many people wear clothes originating from Europe? Is that not cultural appropriation? 😂
As a teen I grew up around a lot of people, black and white, that used AAVE so I used it. I have gotten completely dogpiled for that and I actually felt genuine shame. I don’t use it anymore as an adult especially after moving away from the town I grew up in, but I’m so glad you made a video explaining this! It was never that serious!
Those people who dogpiled you are stupid and you'd be best telling them to fk off
Was this Ebonics back in the 80's ??
Nothing to be ashamed about..
Kids are impressionable and mimic the behaviors of people around them to fit in...
The people who dogpiled you, as you put it, are the ones who should be ashamed..
Excluding and ridiculing someone based on what someone else thinks their race should be entitled to say or do is racist...
You were the victim of racism in that scenario, not the perpetrator..
It's great that you dropped it though..
It makes people sound uneducated and ignorant in my opinion..
why would you want to sound uneducated? In the normal world outside of the hood you would be looked as being stupid and possibly criminal. Not to be trusted and never to be hired.
@@kratoleaf7619 did you not read where I said I was a teenager and have long since stopped it? I’m a full grown adult now who doesn’t use it. I was a kid. And I am intelligent and educated, so there you go.
I'm so glad you found T. Sowell. What a national treasure that man is.
I’m Scottish and see the roots of most of AAVE in Scottish English
I’m not even from America & I think he’s a treasure, maybe he’s a worldwide treasure as well as a national one. The guy’s a legend.
Salute to those celebrating Black Sam/Bo’s
Which book do you guys recommend?
@@HonorableSienna congratulations... you're a bigot.
In Texas, we say a lot of those words, despite our skin color, so when you said they were trying to gatekeep those words out, I was like, "Goodness, I've been using those words since I was young."
well it seems as if she is not as versed in it as others, one who speaks in this dialect would have more examples than “aint”
Because some of the earliest british people came to the south and started using that language and the rest is history.
@@ashslingingslasher Who are you talking about? If you're talking about Amala, that shows you didn't even listen to the video.
@@ashslingingslasher Read the writings of 18th century British enlisted men and you will find a lot of similarities to modern southern American English. A lot more of those guys were literate than most people realize, so we have a pretty clear path of how European languages evolved over the last 500 years or so
In Texan white speak, we say “look out, you’re fixin to tump that glass over”. I’ve heard blacks say it. It’s white southern. It’s the region you live in, not your race.
. . . So... are they gonna start gate keeping libraries then? Or dictionaries? Or... well honestly anything using these words?
You'll probably start seeing white teachers getting fired for using any of the words or correcting a black child for improperly using one of the words or phrases. Though double negative and ain't is used constantly and nobody corrects anyone.😫
Naw that would require actual work and effort 🤪. These are the "poor me" boohoo grown a** babies that refuse to take accountability for their inability to function as proper adults. It's easier to point the finger and play the blame game, especially when the world has created a wonderful scapegoat for you to blame any time you feel cornered.
@@madmouse7915they like to take the accountability for everything else though. Its so annoying.
@@Idkanymore567 indeed.
Then they shouldn't use ANY English words. Good luck getting a WHOLE new language to spread spread!
Love how it’s always “YT People” Specifically.
Some of these people unironically believe there is only Black and White, I swear.
Their racism is showing
Yea well guess what, Other races are starting to speak up about this crap , They too are fed up hearing about the victimhood and hearing how dem white folks sooo bad lol 😂 Black people are going to find themselves all by their selves ,Everyone is loosing respect for them at this point moving forward.
I swear , because they would flip if an any person from Asia or Asian American would say any of those words xD
@@notyourregularfairy4332 they're already flipping about bretman using "aave" saying his anti black or something forgetting that he grow up on Hawaii.....🤦
@@irishmaeatentar805 didn't know that , but I am not surprised.
Cultural and ethnic gatekeeping is borderline cringe inducing, regressive, and hypocritical.
“Aye” is a Scottish word meaning yes 🤣
Aye it is!!!
@@RealLife2019. aye a ken it is !🤣🏴
@@BidenVoting4Trump2024 it’s cause Scotland went everywhere .. wee bit o Scot in aw af us.
@@BidenVoting4Trump2024 I think many cultures will have words that sound similar to other cultures. We are all connected anyway. We’ve just forgotten that part.
@@BidenVoting4Trump2024 they also say ‘aboot’ which is how about is pronounced in Scotland 🤣. Canada is heavily Scottish influenced too more so than even the US.
Thank you Amala !!!
I live in Scotland, where we speak “English” but really we speak our own Scotts - which is a Scottish version of English. aye for yes, dinny for don’t, Ken for know, etc etc and this varies still across Scotland. We have different cultures and races that help make up our beautiful country, but you never ever hear us white Scot’s say “dont use that Scot’s English your being racist”. This is just bonkers. Let people speak they way they want to speak. They are not trying to be racist!!! If anything it’s a compliment. I love hearing other cultures speak in Scots, puts a wee smile oan ma face. 🙏🏻❤️🏴
Scots are not multiple races. That's what Scottish is. Literally an ethnicity. This is why you people are being replaced in your own lands.
I did finish the Outlander books with a wee bit of an accent. 😉
I lived in Scotland for six years and just moved back last June. I heard a LOT of Scots English all over… we lived in Glasgow but visited other areas too. I got to be able to understand most of it, but because I moved there as a senior citizen, I only adopted a few expressions but not the accent or whole dialect. Everyone was very kind.
I believe you should never be critical of how others speak. It’s just bad manners to do that.
Were Scottish people ever put down or ostracized over yourlls lingo?
@@mama-bp3yu you might want to read up on the whole history of Great Britian. So you can answer your own question
By the argument that nobody who isn't black can't use AAVE would mean that anyone who isn't Japanese would not be allowed to learn and speak the Japanese language. The same logic would apply to virtually all other languages.
I did once see a conversation from Tumblr, I think, where someone was making that argument- Assuming it was genuine, at least the crazy is consistent sometimes