They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
BOCAFLOJAThe racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time.
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We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily.
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I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
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On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
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I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say “I don’t like whites” for the simple fact of not liking white people.
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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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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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I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.
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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence.
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The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America.
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Analyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don’t necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to well-read or critical analysis.
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If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn’t, doesn’t, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.
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I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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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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A white leftist Mexican activist isn’t the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren’t worth the same.
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