Note: This is the conclusion of a three part series on the punk rock group, the Breathing Light. Thug Scholar: What do you think is the future of punk rock in the Black community? Camille: It is…I say progression. I say progression because I’m really… I don’t want to say hopeful. I want to say willing, because at one point, nobody thought hip hop would make it as far as it did, you know what I’m saying? Who would ever think that old traditional hymns that were sung by the people who were enslaved would become the banking ground for all of this great music that we have now? So, like I said, punk to me is just another subgenre of those things and the Black community is not limited in anything we do. To some eyes, yes we are, but we’re not. We can do anything…we have. This is just another avenue. And it was in my eyes, because I was definitely one of those people who didn’t know about it. It’s a big avenue that’s untouched. It’s like something that been unexplored, and if you’re curious enough, you will explore the unexplored. But then again, we’re out here! I believe the ones involved in it have to be the educators. You cannot just sit back and harbor this for yourself. In a sense, that’s a reason why it hasn’t spread. We gotta still push to spread it more. That’s why I respect my band mates; I love who they are. And I love the tenacity, even through these hardships, because we’ve had hardships. We’ve met hardships. I mean, smack down after smack down. But we haven’t given up on each other and we haven’t given up on this music. So shout out to our managers, Alicia and Prince, because, you know, they jumped on board and started rocking with us last December of last year. And they have so much belief in us. The belief they have in us motivates us; it’s definitely keeping me revived with still pushing this music. So I definitely believe it’s gonna grow. As long as you have belief in you, if you have a seed, you can plant it. You can see a garden grow to something beyond your wildest dreams.
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