African American

This was like an answer that I was waiting for because though I had several black classmates who were punk, I didn't understand punk at all and wrongly thought that it was white people's music. Almost like a don't ask don't tell thing for which I'm sorry now for not even trying. I'm more like them than I ever thought.

I worked on the transcripts/captioning for a documentary about the punk scene in the San Pedro, California area back in the '80s. The awesomeness of Bad Brains was mentioned or discussed throughout but not one of the band members of the past ever mentioned that Bad Brains is a black group. It will be interesting to see the movie when it comes out this year.

Anyhoo, I saw a young Honeychild of the 1865 in the Afropunk documentary of 2003. And it's so cool to know the history and that eventually young black punks created this international festival celebrating themselves. I love it!