fyrfli's musings

and while i am over here posting up anti-racism stuff, lemme just say this:\n\ni wasn't in the US long before i realised that AAVE has a lot in common with my native Jamaica patois and it hit me that all the slavery descendants probably share that ...

because it's literally an artifact of deliberate suppression of black education combined with the pronunciation of english words in different european style accents, all boiled together to make a language we (black people) could understand amongst one another.

fun fact: jamaican patois is seen in much the same light as AAVE ... cos ... black people ignorant ... or some other bullshit.

originally posted on 9-Aug-2023