Afropunk Brooklyn 2018: Emphasis On The Afro

It’s Electric Afropunk’s energy is electric lady pulsing with the waves of the moon. Black woman is goddess and black people are the universe. That sounds so hippie but it is real. Everyone, artists included kept marveling at never having seen this many black people together. Mind you the Million Man March and Black Lives Matter actions do exist, but when you think back on even those events – allies come and represent. This ish…Afropunk, is FOR us, for black joy, black music, black excellence. White ppl were there, but me and my friends agreed – white ppl should not come to Afropunk without a black friend present. There were some groups of white folks violating, asking random queer ppl to take pictures with them. You AT LEAST need a down black friend to keep you in check. This was my first Afropunk experience. I have never been to AfroPunk – there got that out of the way. My first experience was transformative, I am not a big concert goer, scratch that, I literally have never been to a big concert festival. I saw Earth Wind and Fire live once, we were in a venue, I had an assigned seat in the balcony – it was NOT the same. Earth Wind & Fire is the truth though. I digress. @latoyalee The Afropunk scene had all the ingredients for peak blackness, an interconnected black radiance that brewed a collective consciousness to be everything we know we are and express it inside and out. With outside – I’m talking HAIR!! We had hair products, hair accessories, hair exhibits, and l…