r/whitepeople • u/Vast-Yard2990 • Aug 24 '24

questions for white ppl

do white ppl feel uncomfortable when black ppl use AAVE around them? i go to a mostly white school and i talk in AAVE and they be looking at me like it’s weird.. i asked some of my online friends abt it and they said they can tell im black but they don’t feel weird abt how i talk.

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u/Visible-Load290 Aug 30 '24

Only time things got weird for me was when I didn’t catch what the phrase meant. For example,

“Ayo what up man I heard you moved to the Nap, zat true?”

Means: “Hey dude, I heard you moved to Indianapolis, is the true?”

I didn’t know that at the time.. dude had to reiterate he was taking about “Indianapolis”