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Irrealis - Mood
Irrealis mood marker refers to be in AAVE. In AAVE be can have no tense. When this utterance occurs it is taking the future and the modality to refer to a current event that may be less than real.

Labov, W. (2013). Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English. In African-American English (pp. 110-153). Routledge.