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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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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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Country Framer Latin Media Son
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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Country Culture East Like Middle Rappers States United
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
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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Access Country Majority Power
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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I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won’t come from conscious rap.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
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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Country Gangsta Mtv People Rap
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country.
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Changed Country Independent Latin Owner
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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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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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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Excessive Fight Like Operates Whiteness
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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Happened History Marginalized World
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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Exercise Identified Laughing Racism
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 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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