The comedian and actress Awkwafina issued a lengthy Twitter statement Saturday addressing criticism in the press and on social media that she has used a “blaccent,” or Black accent, and…
, or the act of adopting customs from another culture without the proper level of respect or acknowledgment.
In her 351-word statement Saturday — her first tweet in more than two years — Awkwafina noted the injustices Black Americans face, as well as the use of African American Vernacular English in different contexts, including on social media and in music. “It is a problem we still see today — though some may pass it off as a convoluted mixture of the ‘internet TikTok slang generation’ that liberally uses AAVE, to add that hip hop — a genre of music that is ubiquitous and beloved across the country — has now anchored itself as a mainstream genre in music history.
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