@chipchirp @shonalika
As a musician and performing artist at the dawn of punk and goth, I was savaged for daring to express these same observations throughout the late 1970s and into the 1990s when the demands of family meant taking a corporate job.

The attached image to the left taken by my father pre-Internet, smartphones and filters, was my daily wear at the time. Despite Black musicians being foundational to punk, it was then, as now, seen as white music. And as I evolved a Goth identity inspired by Afro-Caribbean Mysticism, I did experience overt racism by Eurocentric Goths.

I'm joyous to see more dark skin and features in the life, but pained that taken as a whole, so little progress has been made over so long a time.