NYTimes.com - UrbanEye: The Afro-Punk Festival

[Gaelicgurl99]

Way cool. Have y'all hooked up with Joel Rasch? Flint needs this. I might be up with my other color caledonians and Swartzdeutschers to the highlands now but am as ever Betty Supremo, Ms. Elisabeta Disupremo to the wannagoths, call on this Freesian if you ever need security or a runner for pizza and A&W Root beers. yours is the deeper shade of soul. Peace Afropunks

[BabyGirlGoddess]

2:32

i wouldnt call them....punk.

[x1600meterman]

i might go to the 2010 one

[JCisGrim1]

im black and into heavy,dark music such as metal no punk but its good to see some fellow blacks into different stuff too!

[atlasperros]

i've know white and latinos in the punk scene ...but blacks are something new ......fuck it...punk has no barrier

[NightGypsie]

@atlasperros

In the UK, blacks in the punk scene and even skins are nothing new.

The US had this separation.

[Raaawwrr]

Oh, that kid is too cute!

[hayyalife]

looks like a cool atmosphere.

[Brugalncoke]

show more of the BMXing

[scrmblakulascrm]

I'm feeling the punk experiance

[chainsaw6996]

lol, yeah black metal heads. hope i see some fellow afros at this upcoming lamb of god concert

[windrix1]

listen to Killwsitch Engage, God Forbid, and Living Colour those are good black metal bands.

I mean good, not lame very good

[windrix1]

Ew Afro punk...im black but seriously the ONLY good punk black band is BAD BRAINS. Are these people even serious about punk?

[suicidalskull]

No they r not! basically they just label afropunk to everything related to rock that has black people on it! and try to make it a new scene for the mainstream. funny how in the late 70's & 80's u would see black people at punk concerts and bands and they never came up with this nonsense. this is totally something for the weak minded & posers!

[TRESBELA]

i agree with that sorta-afro punk sounds wack.--bad brains would of never been labeled that they were just punk. its simple why do we need to divide it up any more than that?

[toxicMuffinsOmg]

watch the documentary, youll have a different take.

[4gamerz]

windrix dont forget abput pure hell! their riffs are similar to hendrix :]

[TRESBELA]

bb just got the most notoriety..they were a lot of decent black punk bands in the 80's that just didn't get recognized

[bustafish]

like bad brains

[Lboogiefan08]

I wanna go too..im in Va and i wanna know if there is gonna be one in summer 2009

[EyeWearMySunglasses]

@Lboogiefan08 im in VA TOO we should start a meet up or something ...

[Brodieinmd]

I like seeing progress when it comes to "black" alternative music and culture. How long has this festival been going? I like it..:)

[wierdogirl9]

not fair i want to go so bad

[PurpleJay20]

im the skater in the white tht is on 1:03 AND IN 1:27 and the littel kid thts my team mate yoyo im walkin behind him haha

[janweavy]

i was in the background yayyy,lol

[toxicMuffinsOmg]

this account of me is cooler , but yea im the kid, blue shirt bandanna 1:15

[jokamund]

Oh i saw you when I was there.

[flamingbeast54]

AT 1:15 IM SO FUCKIN HYPE

[flamingbeast54]

im the kid in the blue shirt with the orange bandanna on mi mouth

[AntwanDubbaU]

I was there.. It was pretty sweet. Free mountain dew, but no beer : (..

[TRESBELA]

that's not punk at all then, lol. no beer

[bigwillylandis]

i want to go there

[Sk8HippieGrl]

Omg..I diidnt realize how hype I was..

[bunz1pgg1]

i was there

[mottser]

Like the festival and that skaterkid is soooo cute. "It takes a lot of resonsability"

[garylandy]

so obama supporters, how do you like that obama gave bush and cheney what they wanted (FISA). are you still behind this traitor to the american people and the constitution? WHY?!!! isnt is time to turn in libertarian and stand only for the constitution of the united states of america which is designed to protect you? FISA was designed to cover up a crime and will work against you on the long run. obama knows that but he doesnt give a fukk!!! wake up america!!!

[GodBlessGoreFisher]

As Alica Keyes & Chauncy Taylor of College Park Maryland told Jeff Fisher, my runningmate back in April of 2008.

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT

Now for the posting to spread all over youtube world wide that will create world peace in 2008.

We all love music and Madonna.

A big fan,

Albert Arnold Gore Jr

Now please check out all the comments by Jeff and me at this youtube.

watch?v=R_yVxv0I1_I

Spread the word ASAP. Jeff is now in Philadelphia. Lets do the protest there now.

[ho2cultcha]

cool festival. cool kid too. he's gonna be a great teacher someday - fo' real!