Welcome to The Awakening. Black Women United. In this video I do a deep dive into the African diaspora war between The definition of African American is a Black American of African descent. African Americans are born in America with their ancestors being descended from Africans or otherwise slaves from the Transatlantic slave trade. The Transatlantic slave trade was the transportation of 10 to 12 million enslaved African people to the Americas. But that definition barely touches the surface of the horrors that enslaved Africans had to go through. The Transatlantic Slave Trade really represents one of the most violent and horrific eras in world history. Slaves were robbed of human rights and were abused, raped and killed. Taken from their homes, they had to adapt to a new land to survive. As a result of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and colonialism, new cultures were formed. When slave owners attempted to strip African culture from their slaves, retention of significant elements of traditional culture among Africans was facilitated by slaves verbally, musically and also through writing. African American culture evolved from descendants from the slave trade and has now become one of the most widespread and influential cultures in America, yet is one of the most invalidated ones due to the differences when compared to other cultures.

Differences between cultures can range from religious beliefs and practices, behaviors, traditions. Due to these differences between African Americans and others of the African diaspora, they can cause different parts of the diaspora to clash, because we all are centered on our own cultures, and naturally, people judge something that is unfamiliar or different than what they are used to, painting the fact that one definite reason for diaspora wars is invalidation of each others’ cultures.

As well as cultures, there are other things that make up identity, like traits. There are negative and positive traits that can be attached to groups in the African diaspora, and the traits that are usually associated to groups are negative and are otherwise known as stereotypes. As I have grown up African, some stereotypes that I have heard about African Americans are that they are “troublemakers” and “unclassy” as well as “full of attitude.” Some stereotypes that I have heard about Africans are that we are “smelly” and “poverty-stricken.” These negative stereotypes are one of many reasons why disunity exists in the African diaspora. But the main reason for the amount of disunity is tied to the very basis of diaspora wars as a whole: white supremacy.