Me too.
What changed my life was seeing the bad brains live at afropunk last year...people forget they are ogs and pioneers of dc punk and punk in general. Also you had some lesssr known old school nyc hardcore bands that have puerto rican cats black people asian people etc.
Like when i was getting into it in the mid 90s people thought it was mainly some white boy stuff but damn near all of punk is anti establishment anti corruption politically aware anti racism sexism homophobia. But as i got older i saw mad spanish and black folks and asian.kids at those show. POC punks always existed. Because the punk subculture, much like the hip-hop subculture was all about acceptance. You even had queer punks even though people like to think of punk as some violent hypermasculine angry music. Punk like hip hop is at its core rebel music...like reggae. In fact growing up with reggae in my family actuly put me onto ska. One of my favorite grouos is Operation Ivy...which pretty much birthed Rancid one of the dopest bands ive ever heard. They were the last commercially accepted punk band but they were actually punk.
I was actually the lead singer in a hardcore band from 1999-2001.
Like some of my favorite bands are DOA and Agnostic Front and ive met some of those dudes after the show and gave props and they were like "cool".
As well...people forget the first wave of punk stems directly from reggae and ska in working class neighborhoods in london in the 50s/60s an indirect relative of mod culture Skinhead culture actually stems from white british ska/reggae culture and has nothing to do with racism in its origins.
But yeah...im finding that clip.
