🚫 Stop Explaining Black Words Online 📱 London’s 6 Black Accents 🔊

Black British English, AAVE, Pidgin, Creoles and Patwa are not trends. Yet online, every word, phrase, and term gets packaged into a TikTok explainer video for the world to decode. 📱🚫 Enough.
In this episode, we take on:​ Why “MLE” is a lazy, erasing label for Black British language. ❌​ How over-explaining Black speech perpetuates cultural appropriation and erases our voices.​ The difference between appreciating Black language and policing it. 💬✊🏾​ Why ownership of our words matters and why the internet needs to stop subtitling us.​ And why London has far more accents and voices than BBC London acknowledges 🎤🌍 a linguistic map richer, louder, and more vibrant than the mainstream admits.
This isn’t about accents alone, it’s about power, respect, and boundaries. 🔥 Listen as we unpack why Black words belong to us and not the algorithms, not the TikTok explanations, and certainly not anyone outside our community.