in standard english the verb form s the same in both cases whereas they are distinct in aave because while the first sentense does nit refer to some repeated nonc continuous action the second does. in aave constructions such as he be busy right now and he br my father are not grammatical sentences. the latter would imply he is only my father from time to time
this kind of distinction in thr verb is certainly remniscent of creole languages. in caribbean creoles verb aspect the distribution of event throught time ( whether it is repeated continuous completed and so on) tends to be of greater importance than tense the actual location of an event in time . at the same time it should be said that this sort of habitual non habitual distinction is not unknow in british isles dialects although whrer it does occur it does so in by no means exactly the same form. in the old fashionwd dialect of example