African Americans are the engines of global pop culture because African Americans invented cool. But what people don't realize is that black cool isn't some etherial ethnic trait, it's a survival mechanism that we developed and honed over time. Not being cool could get you killed
African Americans had to develop a calm and collected persona because, historically, our humanity has been under constant attack and our minority status means that we can't always fight back. So instead, we've had to learn how to be cool in the face of social hostility.
Being "cool" is a function of knowing you're going to have to face a world that doesn't respect you, is going to call you out of your name, and possibly physically harm you if you say anything. So you stay calm and make sure everyone else around you stays calm and you survive.
This "cool" is also how and why we developed slang. To give words double meanings or new meanings based on contextual speech allowed us to speak in code and communicate one message while saying something completely different out loud. Black speech is contextual, not literal.
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is often mistaken for being "broken language" because it eschews the conventions and permanence of literal speech. But that's the point. It relies on a mutual agreement of the speakers to rely on context to derive meaning.
By using a simple trick, removing the verb "to be" from speech patterns, African Americans removed permanence from language. So because nothing is permanent, a word can change its meaning on the fly to suit the situation. It's how bad can be bad and bad can be good simultaneously
That's why it's so easy to spot bots and trolls on Twitter. They can mimic the speech patterns of AAVE, but they don't know the rules or conventions of the language and so it just comes across as misspoken gobbledygook. It's almost like the Navajo's in WW2. You can't hack us.
