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Hey, uh, please don't appropriate AAE.
Edit: Thanks so much for listening to us!
Edit 2: To all the people still arguing about this: Enough! We said all that we are going to say on the matter, if any care that much they should also go listen to black people, research history, language, colonialism. We get it, people don't like their 'toys' being taken away for no reward beyond being a good person, but it's the right thing to do.
It's an established meme phrase, I would be reluctant to call it appropriation at this point. It's just a phrase that's made it into general circulation.
No, it is, it came from AAE, it being a 'meme phrase' doesn't change that.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines cultural appropriation as "the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the practices, customs, or aesthetics of one social or ethnic group by members of another (typically dominant) community or society". This act carries connotations of exploitation and dominance, particularly when a more powerful culture adopts elements from a marginalized or non-Western one. The term emerged in the context of post-colonial critique and gained traction in the late 20th century.
Anyone would, if asked say the phrase came from AAVE so it is acknowledged
It first became part of mainstream vocabulary through streaming and memes so it is an appropriate use of the phrase.
It is not meant to be exploitative or to establish dominance.
Making "it do be like that" memes meets none of the prerequisites for cultural appropriation because, primarily it's use is not meant to belittle the black American population. However the "we wuz kangs" meme popular on 4chan definitely is. There is a clear difference between the two and not acknowledging that means people start to se all things dubbed as cultural appropriation as equally inconsequential.
Genuine acts of appropriation are harmful and you shouldn't cheapen the term by associating it with harmless memes.
If you don't see how this instance exactly fits the definition of cultural appropriation then we don't think this is going to be a useful conversation.
It isn't even AAE, it's using the "emphatic do". Like "I do sing really good".
Nothing to do with "I be singing", which would be the AAE form of "I sing".
In this case, instead of "it is like that" the "is" becomes "do be" (although the correct form would be "does be").
Believe me, I understand cultural appropriation. Symbolism from my own country's history are now more closely associated with white nationalism than their original use.