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Tell us you've never had a black friend in your entire life without telling us you've never had a black friend in your entire life. But first, let's talk about colloquial language, Black colloquialism to be precise. Merriam Webster defines “colloquial” as: “used in or characteristic of familiar, informal conversation.” »
Black linguistics has created hundreds, if not thousands, of these colloquial terms, and they are generally understood as parts of speech that are not heard literally. This form of language is known in modern times as African American Vernacular English “AAVE”. Take the phrase “repair” or “finna”, when someone says they are “getting ready to go to work”, it does not mean that a broken item needs to be repaired before going to work. AAVE has become so relevant worldwide that everyone understands what certain words mean in the appropriate context. Typically, when people outside of the black community use AAVE, it's either to deliberately mock black people or to make a cringeworthy statement about how cool they think they are. We say all of this to say that it is very interesting to see a white person intentionally misunderstand AAVE in order to play the victim.
Yesterday, a clip of a spicy exchange between Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, and Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, went super viral when Mace, bold and Caucasian, asked Crockett if she wanted ” take her outside,” implying that she wanted to throw her hands away.
Watch the video.
Yes, you heard all that correctly. Rep. Crockett used the colloquial term “Chili” and Rep. Mace threw a white-hot tantrum to try to make it seem like she was humiliated. This is one of the most mayonnaise-based things we've ever seen. Following Mace's faux-hard pumping, Rep. Crockett took to Twitter (we never call him “X”, Elon Musk can go to hell) to rub salt in the white wounds.
Republican Committee Chairman James Comer defended his valued white antagonist by ruling that she was not calling for violence against Crockett, saying Mace could ask his colleague to “have a cup of coffee or maybe a beer “.
Of course, January.
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