No, you just have very poor comprehension skills. I’ll break it down for you, slowly so that you can keep up.
Yeah you clearly know nothing about black culture…
This is based on the fact that you sarcastically said “Oh right so they were doing a serious traditional African dance”. There is nothing serious or traditional about twerking. I went on to explain this further:
…You don’t understand that a) not everything is “serious”…
A part of black culture on the whole is our carefree nature when it comes to dancing and celebration. There is very little that is formal or serious in the majority of black cultures (because there are many) when it comes to dancing. Formal dancing is more a European thing.
…and b) that the widespread black diaspora have many cultural elements which stem from our African ancestors…
Diaspora = “the dispersion or spread of people from their homeland.” This is the part that I think confused you the most.
When we talk about the “black diaspora” in reference to culture, we are talking largely about the descendants of enslaved Africans who mostly live in the USA, Caribbean and some of us are in the U.K.
Thanks to historical events that I won’t bother going into now because, according to most (white) people that are faced with this conversation, it was “ages ago and we should get over it”, we lost many of our ties to our African traditions; our names, our languages, our customs. However there are some things that carried through, one of them being our dance. Leading to the final point of my post:
…but we have made our own. Twerking being one of them.
Does that make sense to you now?