Khadejah
1 min readMar 12, 2021

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Hello Jahleel, you make some great points. While I do understand your point that it can be a slippery slope when it comes to AAVE, I still think that if you're black you have the right to correct it. Just because someone's favorite artist uses it, doesn't give them a pass to use it. Most of the time when non-black people use AAVE, they don't know how to use it right. Just because they're using it doesn't mean they know how to use it and that's a problem. Also, my comparison to the N-word wasn't about the context of when a white person uses it if that makes sense. I was saying that since it's fairly common to see Black people using that word around each other because we've reclaimed it, it's similar to using that word. Lord knows how many non-black people I've heard sing rap music and they use the N-word too. I hope that clears everything up. Thank you so much for reading and for your insightful comment!

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Khadejah
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