AAVE: STOP APPROPRIATING IT
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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