Ex employee says Afropunk owner is a racist half breed that hates black Americans

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Aw darn Im still planning on going though, Sunday has an awesome lineup. For people in the NYC area you can go to the site and pick an organization to volunteer at for 8 hours and you'll get a free weekend pass to afropunk.
 
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Welcome to rock, punk, and metal music.
Discrimination is frowned upon.

I've played guitar at shows so l know that's not entirely true.

There's still a heterosexual core audience for those music genres.

So they have formed their own variatons to serve their groups.

Maybe Afropunk's target audience was never straight black men.
 

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I've played guitar at shows so l know that's not entirely true.

There's still a heterosexual core audience for those music genres.

So they have formed their own variatons to serve their groups.

Maybe Afropunk's target audience was never straight black men.
Probably because straights are the majority of the population.
And AfroPunk target was Black people who are into punk/rock/alternative music. Guess who isn't as into that? Straight Black men.
 
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Probably because straights are the majority of the population.
And AfroPunk target was Black people who are into punk/rock/alternative music. Guess who isn't as into that? Straight Black men.

I see your point now and it makes sense.

I think it also reinforces the viewpoint that our own subgroups use alternative music beyond hip-hop as a vehicle to distance themselves.

Listening to rock nowadays makes you a 'other' black now?

I guess l'm :flabbynsick:.
 

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I see your point now and it makes sense.

I think it also reinforces the viewpoint that our own subgroups use alternative music beyond hip-hop as a vehicle to distance themselves.

Listening to rock nowadays makes you a 'other' black now?

I guess l'm :flabbynsick:.
I thinks it's other way around actually.
Their like of alternative music ostracizes them.
I was a metalhead and a major punk fan from 10 on up, and everyone called me an "Oreo" or just White.
I just loved the music and the revolutionary message, I was sort of "pushed out" though. Alongside other things like anime, skateboarding, and fantasy novels, things that aren't considered "Black" in the stereotypical sense.
They become safe places for Black people who are ostracized.
 

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But why ? We invented it.
Invention 80 years ago doesn't correlate to popularity now.
Rosetta Tharpe invented rock n roll, and you sure as hell wouldn't have seen her as the face of rock even 15 years later.
Black men like hip-hop more than anything else, and for some reason shun people who are Black but aren't fans.
 
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I thinks it's other way around actually.
Their like of alternative music ostracizes them.
I was a metalhead and a major punk fan from 10 on up, and everyone called me an "Oreo" or just White.
I just loved the music and the revolutionary message, I was sort of "pushed out" though. Alongside other things like anime, skateboarding, and fantasy novels, things that aren't considered "Black" in the stereotypical sense.
They become safe places for Black people who are ostracized.

I think there is a fear of being white-washed when you branch back into rock since it was 'stolen'.

I blame societal imagery at large, and the higher economic barrier of rock for the current consensus.

Black rock is certainly dying on the mainstream vine.
 

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afro punk seems like black gay,lesbian, and bedwench central.

fukk BLM and Afropunk:yeshrug:

i went a few years ago with an ex back when it was free... had no idea what to expect... never again :mjlol:

a coli researcher would have a field day observing the fukkery... the new black movement is flourishing:mjpls:
 
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