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I've met ginger Scottish rastasmen, Japanese & Maori goths but not anybody black & punk.

I've always been aware of the influence of black culture on punk and alt. expression via nasty old blues, reggae and rude boys, and I mean, come on- the most nyctalopic gothique has Holiday and Robert Johnson throbbing in its bloodstream, even if most scene babies don't know that today.  Do we all meet in the middle with this shit or is black punk a different place?  

Part of me thinks yes, the other, no.  I've been denied opportunity, kicked out of places and assaulted because of the way that I've looked, and the way that I look is the way that I am.  My intrinsic personality is not something I can scrub off, even to my own advantage, but I know that my white privilege is still not adequately informed.  

Check out Phil Knott's images of the other black experience in Lens.

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