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I have a white coworker who speaks AAVE, but aside from him, I don't know anyone else (with the exception of eminem) caucasion who speaks AAVE. It does have some features similar to Southern white English.
You can find a lot of information if you google AAVE. If you just type "the features of AAVE-intro" into your search engine, that site actually has sound speaker pictograms you can click on to hear grammatical & phonological examples of AAE.
You can also look up John R. Rickford, who is one of the foremost authorities on AAVE. He is Director of African Studies and professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. He won the 2000 American Book Award for his book, "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English".
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