I was just reviewing my notes and I saw my notes on characteristics of Black English and it made me remember my womens studies class. I had to do a presentation with five other people one of them being African American. During my presentation I was listening to everyone and as soon as she started doing her part I immediately recognized what is Black English. It was amazing to hear this first hand because then I looked at my notes and she did almost all of the things Black English speakers do. The most common was she dropped "to be." I found this to be very interesting and when I initially heard her speaking in the Black English form I tuned in and listened more carefully to see if she spoke all of the negatives of Black English.