As an old person, I eschew teenage argot (unless it's from my own teens, in which case I enthusiastically overuse it).
I never did say 'sick' as in good and that's come and gone now. No one under the age of thirty says it, thank fuck.
Currently waiting for 'slaps' to pass. Patiently.
Also waiting for posh white kids to stop appropriating / ruining #AAVE and #BlackBritishSlang but not holding my fucking breath on that one.
@Jyoti
Appropriating Black English goes back pretty far, so don’t get your hopes up
Insert 1840s Ethiopian Serenaders concert playbill where the earliest known professional American accordionist Moody Stanwood appeared on the stage in Boston (and soon in front of European royalty)
http://AccordionRevolution.com (shameless citation)
#Appropriation is at the core of American popular music and culture
But it still boggles my American sensibilities that they showed #MinstrelShows on British tv into the 1970s
I think mostly because we had moved on to more modern media stereotypes and it seemed embarrassingly blatant
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show
We get a #MontyPython stereotype of “British humor”
I’m not sure how this related to that
I grew up with The Black And White Minstrel Show. Even as a South Asian, the says after I'd get more racism than the already not-great amount.
I dread to think what Black kids got.
And, let's be honest, the minstrelsy / appropriation never stopped, whites just stopped blackface.
@Jyoti
It never stops
My thought is that it’s important to help people be aware of it and it’s deep and abiding history
There’s also riches of collaboration there that can be drawn out as models
Look at who got paid. And who made sure people got paid, and treated right
There’s good stories there. It’s important to share those as well
Jyoti Mishra
AccordionBruce
