It is WILD that enslaved Africans were kidnapped from all over, with catchers thinking diff languages would keep us from communicating...only for ALL of us to create AAVE...which kept them from understanding us...

...Like...ppl always talk about race being such a huge thing here. But what did newly enslaved Africans realize? Race IS all that mattered HERE and to be able to survive, we all had to become one. And that one was Black. Colored, Negro, African American, Black American...

...the names always change. The meaning does not. This is specific to The States. I know enslaved Africans that landed elsewhere, had diff rules. But the same applied. What they could hold onto, they did. What was forgotten was replaced with new shit. It’s so fascinating to me.