I really hate the ebonic-fication of language including among white zoomers.
When I was in like middle school, people would just for fun, but ironically and not as actual part of their conversation say things like fo-shizzle my nizzle.
It was a knowing thing of just a funny thing to occasionally say because it sounded funny and it was a snoop dogg thing. It wasn't a common thing, I just remember it being a thing on the school bus of people saying the various snoop dogg stuff, but otherwise that was the extent of ebonics bullcrap. Another way to say it is you had to very intentionally and knowingly say it, there was no casual or subconscious incorporation of "derizzles, and fo shizzles". It was not a part of our subconscious in any way. There really wasn't much of a different way of talking than my parents or any other adults. No real slang barriers.
Now, just all over the internet, gen Z and whoever uses slang like, "you know you're cooked when...", "on God", "bruh" "glazing" "no cap"
And it's literally a part of their language. Again, I was born in the early 90s....I really don't remember there being language that people had to go "what?" and look up to understand what we were saying. We just talked like normal people. And we used normal words like faggot and retard, staples since the 70s at least.
I remember going to camp one summer and there was a group of black people there and I didn't understand like 80% of what they said because it was so full of Ebonics. You needed a translator. It was like one step away from Jamaican. That's now bled it's way into general society it seems.
This ebonicsification of all of American demographics makes me feel a sense of hopelessness.
It makes me want to make a youtube video tutorial called "How to de-faggify your speech"
I'll toss Vox Day at you: https://voxday.net/2021/12/28/racism-is-pro-human-diversity/
To sum up: Racism as a term was coined for use against Native Americans who were (also) trying to preserve their culture. 'Racism' is and always has been a cudgel wielded by those in favor of 'progress,' which was defined initially as elimination of racial distinctions in a vain attempt at enforcing a cultural 'tabula rasa.' (Kill the Indian, save the Man.) Yes, it's Neo-Marxists wielding the cudgel these days. White people/Heritage Americans are their target, but the idea of mixing and/or destroying ethnic identities has always been deeply American, predating Marx.
Vox again: https://voxday.net/2015/04/21/mailvox-racism-lens/
--Vox Day
There are exceedingly difficult conversations to be had, but I don't see the ideologically possessed ('anti'-racist left OR racist right) as being capable of having any form of discussion about the topic.
Nuance and honesty as regards race seem dead in the cultural sphere.
Nice to see a fellow Vox traveler. Been reading his site for over a decade.