"Anything that wasn’t perceived as conventionally Black enough defined by popular culture was considered self hatred, weird or ‘white people shit.’ " - Obsidian

Despite the height of Punk’s white consumerist commercialization in the 70s, a persistent Black underground culture remained active. Though aspects of the punk subculture have been seen as a type of fashionable, cultural aesthetic, Black punks have been intermixed in the scene in hopes of reclaiming the communalistic politics and cultural traits they grew up with—with a bit of an edge.

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