What is the main features of African American dilect?

Answer 1

Linguists say the main feature of the African American dialect is the use of invariant be. When African American dialect speakers wish to suggest a habitual state or activity, they will use be instead of a conjugated form of the verb and a signal word, such as forever or always. Whereas a Standard American English (SAE) speaker might say, "I am forever tidying up after that child," an African American dialect speaker is more likely to say, "I be forever tidying up after that child!" Of course, most children raised in an African-American-dialect-speaking home learn SAE in school.

Also, the dropping of certain consonants, such as in the above example "I be forever tidying up after that child" would sound more like, "I be foreva tidyin' up afta that chil'."