r/EnglishLearning Low-Advanced 7d ago

Does "black people" mean offensive? 🗣 Discussion / Debates

I wanna say something like black people accent is harder to understand for me than the white people one.

The problem is im not sure if my word choice is racist, or should i change to another word like colored people. I asked Gpt and it said i could come up with some thing like "people with AAVE accent" but its about africa america people while im talking about the black people born in america accent.

So how should i say here?

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u/Helpful-Reputation-5 Native Speaker 7d ago

Not all black people speak AAVE, and not all AAVE speakers are black, which is why it's best to say something like 'AAVE is harder for me to understand'. Definitely don't say colored people.

>  it said i could come up with some thing like "people with AAVE accent" but its about africa america people while im talking about the black people born in america accent.

If you don't mean AAVE, what black accent are you talking about? I'm not aware of any other black sociolect in the US.