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In local news, I'm Black and I love AAVE. I love the dialect I grew up with. I love the way Black folx in LA say things.

I think "I wish a MF would" is inspired
Or that "y'all be easy" can be a farewell or an insult.
I like the way we use -ass as an adverb similar to very
I like that we've reclaimed 'nigga' as a term of endearment.

There's a dozen different examples I can give, but I like AAVE and I like learning the 'etymology' of our words too,

Like 'wretched' becoming 'ratchet.'