I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
BOCAFLOJAI am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
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Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism.
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The whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, “I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself.”
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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can’t grow further in the barrio.
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I would say it is one of the forms at the idea level, and through the work they have achieved, one of the most dignified historical examples that has happened in the history of the world.
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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.
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It’s like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.
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I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.
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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.
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So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time.
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I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
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