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AAVE: STOP APPROPRIATING IT

queer-disposition:

What you as a non-black person shouldn’t be saying (this includes non-black poc):

  • killin it
  • -game too strong (i.e. eyebrow game too strong, etc.)
  • -ass (i.e. That’s some ignorant-ass shit.)
  • turnt/turnt up/turn up/turn down for what
  • shade/throwin’ shade
  • ratchet (don’t be a smartass, the adjective not the object)
  • werk
  • yas
  • habitual “be” (i.e. they be killin it, he be walkin, bitches be like, etc.)
  • the thirst/thirsty
  • anything being “real” (i.e. the struggle is real, the thirst is real, etc.)
  • the struggle
  • on point (i.e. outfit is on point)
  • chill (as in got no chill)
  • side-eye
  • stank face
  • cray cray
  • -had me like
  • trippin’
  • boo/bae
  • imma be
  • do/dough/dat
  • gurl/boi
  • basic (as in basic bitch)
  • holla
  • finna (i.e. I’m finna do xyz)
  • tho/doe
  • reading/read
  • school/schooling
  • dope
  • fo sho/fo real
  • y’all
  • dig/dig it/ya dig/you dig
  • respect (i.e. respect man)
  • about that/here for that (i.e. I’m not about that life, I’m here for this)
  • tight (i.e. this shit got me tight)
  • giving life (i.e. Beyonce gives me life, black tumblr giving me life)
  • swag
  • goin’ through it

Things to avoid in general because they are offensive and/or mock black culture:

  • Sassy (NO YOU DO NOT HAVE A SASSY BLACK WOMAN LIVING INSIDE OF YOU.  STOP.  LOOKIN AT YOU WHITE GAY COMMUNITY).
  • Do not call black hair kinky or nappy. (Don’t touch it either).
  • Do not call things ghetto. Just don’t.
  • Don’t use the word thug in relation to black men.
  • Do not assume black people are ignorant just because they don’t speak the same dialect of English as you do.
  • Don’t make fun of black names.
  • If you use the n-word, I have no sympathy for you.  Good fucking luck.

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