I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
BOCAFLOJAThey have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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Like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.
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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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This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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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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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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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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European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, “Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is relevant in the US.
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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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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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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They don’t want to talk about race. The discussion for them is based on class struggle, rich against poor, but doesn’t offer the possibility of a dialogue about racial questions.
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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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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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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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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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