Ya have any desire to change your last name (Slave name)

[John Mayer]

Are you going to stop wearing European clothes as well? I never got why people change their name to some African or Muslim name.

 

[Poitier]

We won't always be at the bottom, but we ain't getting reparations.

Contradict yourself

 

[Retired Account]

They chose "white" names though. A few had europeanized versions of African names.

I wouldn't call them slave names though
Many Africans don't have African names

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I wouldn't call them slave names though

I know what you mean but In a way they still were because they had no knowledge of their original African name most of the time.

Many Africans don't have African names

Very true..I was actually going to make a point about it.

 

[kayslay]

yeah its decreolized into a dialect with few of its original differences from English

kayslay was using "thot" and "bae" as examples of AAVE being a separate language like cmon bruh

No i didn't you can't read.
That was a completely different thread and subject matter.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/how-has-chinatown-stayed-chinatown.357987/page-5
You dont't have to LIE to kick it.

I stand firm in whatever I say unlike your backpedaling ass.

What I wrote in the other thread:

No shade but if you're not AA or didn't grow up speaking AAVE you wont be able to pick up on it. Hence sites like Urban Dictionary existing.
Mainstream AAVE is not the same as the AAVE spoken among US, we purposely "Decreolize" it as means to translate.
It's ever changing as well. People often forget America is Huge! Our states are bigger than countries and our cities are bigger than most islands. For that reason alone it's pretty silly to try and compare our our languages. Just as there is no Standard American accent ,there isn't a singular version of AAVE. We arent a monolith so why would we have a monolithic laguage?!?
The problem with these discussions is the fact that it is always had by Non-AAs, non Americans or Suburanites who really didn't grow up in our culture. Most of you know of our culture through Media e.i. Racist Propaganda News, Scripted RealityTV, Social Media, and Music videos.

Simply put just because you don't experience certain aspects of OUR culture doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

Im really curious why people who aren't AA feel they can speaking in absolutes about my culture.
Anyone care to answer that?





I agree with the bold.

I really dont give af about anyone else's language to be clear.
Im addressing the fact that Non-AAs who dont speak AAVE claiming that everyone in America is fluent in our language.
Just because you know buzz words like THOT&Bae doesn't mean that if I drop you off on either the South or Westside of Chicago that you'd be able to carry a conversation without translation.
You do know you ARENT AA, right?
The fact that you continue call it ebonics pretty much let me know your sources.

In response to this:

Thing is one can argue Black Americans created their own language but allowed non Blacks to monetize it. "Ebonics" and other regional slangs are languages of the people who came up in those communities/cultures. Hell look at when Migos or Chi town rappers get interviewed white folks put captions on the screen so people can understand what they are saying. At the end of the day if you are Black no matter where you are from and hear other blacks talk you will essentially pick up the ear to hear the mother tongues. I`m not Jamaican but when I watched Money and Violence I could understand EVERY thing the Jamaicans would say on the show.

ebonics is decreolized to the fullest. while i have reservations, i do think Jamaicans should (and they have in Jamaica) start to standardize Patois and use it as a unifying force

When did i say Patois is a language? Feel free to go through my posting history. When did i "claim" creile or geechee people? Do you know how to read English? And again prove Aave is a language

Oh so one minute Patois isnt a real language but some how it should be the"Standard" language of Jamaica.... yeah that makes sense.

 

[Retired Account]

No i didn't you can't read.
That was a completely different thread and subject matter.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/how-has-chinatown-stayed-chinatown.357987/page-5
You dont't have to LIE to kick it.

I stand firm in whatever I say unlike your backpedaling ass.

What I wrote in the other thread:





In response to this:








Oh so one minute Patois isnt a real language but some how it should be the"Standard" language of Jamaica.... yeah that makes sense.

Can you link a video of someone,that you think I wouldn't understand, speaking AAVE?

 

[kayslay]

AAs should consciously push aave further from standard English

what language do you think should be the base language then?

 

[Poitier]

what language do you think should be the base language then?

English

 

[Medio]

unless you are white spanish and your last name is spanish it's a slave name

 

[richaveli83]

Cacs birth rates are dwindling and hopefully we have the chinese invade and slice em all up. Imma just ride this slave name out and hopefully they'll all be gone in a hunnit years or so.

LMAO!

 

[Red Shield]

Contradict yourself

How is "We won't always be at the bottom, but we ain't getting reparations." a contradiction?

Anyone paying any real attention to this countries treatment of us, will agree that reparations is a no go.

Believe the same nation that used black babies as alligator bait and continues to antagonize/terrorize us is going pay us brehs

 

[Rekkapryde]

I speak nikkanese

Gonna change my name to Datniguh

 

[Poitier]

How is "We won't always be at the bottom, but we ain't getting reparations." a contradiction?

fail economics


think black folk can rise from the underclass without reparations

think the 1900s is absolute for the rest of history

 

[Reginald Noble]

Maybe when I expatriate permanently. Not trying to harm my chances of making $$$ state-side.

 

[Red Shield]

fail economics


think black folk can rise from the underclass without reparations

think the 1900s is absolute for the rest of history

how is"We won't always be at the bottom, but we ain't getting reparations." a contradiction?

I think we might be looking at this from two different perspectives.....



I'm look at this as a black's globally won't always be at the bottom thing. You must be looking at this as just a AA thing. And being perfectly truthful with ya breh...


AA's are most likely going to stay the underclass in this country, for as long as this country has left


We were in this country before the 1900s, you should know how white people are... reparations ain't happening.. accept that shyt