It is WILD that enslaved Africans were kidnapped from all over, with catchers thinking diff languages would keep us from communicating...only for ALL of us to create AAVE...which kept them from understanding us...
...Like...ppl always talk about race being such a huge thing here. But what did newly enslaved Africans realize? Race IS all that mattered HERE and to be able to survive, we all had to become one. And that one was Black. Colored, Negro, African American, Black American...
...the names always change. The meaning does not. This is specific to The States. I know enslaved Africans that landed elsewhere, had diff rules. But the same applied. What they could hold onto, they did. What was forgotten was replaced with new shit. It’s so fascinating to me.
Adding this. This puts the convo in terms of the diaspora. We did this everywhere. AAVE, Patois, Hatian Creole, Dominican Spanish...it’s all the same thing. Same context🔥
There’s something really...fascinating that’s happening with these responses. I think it’s clear what time period that’s being referenced. Yet ppl are still responding in a type of “now ya’ll allow everybody to use your language”. A post about the ingenuity & genius of...
...enslaved Africans is immediately being turned into how stupid Black Americans “let” white supremacy be white supremacist. To “them” or “us”. Seems like as much shit as ppl talk...THEY are more comfortable being in an anti-Black space, they can’t even take this notion as is.
It HAS to be turned into or ended with some kind of “and ya’ll, Black people, FAILED. HAHA” when it is so clear instagram & til tok aren’t even the point. But for many the point is always, let’s remind Black ppl all of the ways you have failed. Espc Black Americans. Fascinating.
