feature: blxpltn opens up about protest music in powerful huffington post column

Outspoken electro-punk band BLXPLTN just published a brilliant piece on Huffington Post about music’s ability to provoke social change. The AFROPUNK Fest 2014 alumni have been at the forefront of the resurgent radical music scene, and will be putting out a new record later this year. “Music gives you the freedom to pose questions you couldn’t otherwise. How many Nigerian lives are worth one French life, in terms of media coverage? How many Muslim lives? We live in a global community while our western “media” is consistently pitting people against one another. Poor whites are taught to focus their frustrations on poor blacks, when it is a system built by rich White men that keeps them in captivity. We are taught to focus on the person in the next cell, not the one who has the keys.” Read the full article here and check out BLXPLTN on our debut Mixtape below: Public Unrest

By Nathan Leigh, AFROPUNK Contributor

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