Sis...AAVE is My Culture, Not for Clout
"Every Black Man is Bilingual. We Speak Street Vernacular and We Speak Job Interview" -Dave Chapelle Growing up as a Black woman, the way I talk has everything to do with my culture. AAVE originated from the days of slavery when Black people were taken from our native land. We were isolated from our people and our language. As slaves, Black people were not educated because we were seen as pieces of property, not human beings. Therefore, Black people had to create our own vernacular from the words and language we were exposed to involuntarily. The words that we say like "sis" or "fo sho" or "chile" are ways we communicate and relate to each other as Black people. It connects us to our Black community and culture. Whenever I or any other Black person use these words, we're called ghetto or uneduca...