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by satvikpendem 15 days ago
It's ebonics, a slang or dialect version of using "are."
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Linguistically it's particularly interesting since it marks the habitual aspect, and standard English has no grammatical equivalent.[0]

[0]: https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/invariant-be#who-says-this

And it's more like "are being" here (present imperfect)
Ebonics, from the root ebony, meaning black-speak? I can't believe that's still acceptable.