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Because there is no such thing as "African American English". There is proper English and then there is slang.
Who speaks proper English?
The Queen/king and no one else.
It's kind of off-topic, but also on-topic:
King Charles uses a variety called Received Pronunciation, but both of his sons (William and Harry) use Southern Standard British instead. Geoff Lindsey has a video on the differences.
As such, once William rises to the throne, what's considered "the King's English" will change. And, alongside it, what plenty people in the UK consider as standard English will change too.
Never heard of AAVE? There isn’t one immutable version of English
Lmao get out you weird bigot
It's bad enough the American's are too stupid to use the proper one that we have to have two.
But people talking incorrectly is not a reason to write like that. Unless it's a character speaking or whatever.
Color or colour? Truck or lorry? Cookie or biscuit?Which one is "proper"?
Colour, lorry, biscuit...NEEEEXT
What you call "proper English" (or "proper" any other language) is merely an arbitrary construct. It is not set on stone.
That applies to all levels of a language, by the way, not just vocabulary ("slang").