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.
BOCAFLOJAThey 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.
BOCAFLOJAI believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
BOCAFLOJAIf 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.
BOCAFLOJAThere are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
BOCAFLOJAI think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America.
BOCAFLOJAI understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
BOCAFLOJAI 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.
BOCAFLOJAI 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.
BOCAFLOJAA lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.
BOCAFLOJAWe should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a “Panther Baby”.
BOCAFLOJARacism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
BOCAFLOJAIt’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.
BOCAFLOJAThe Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America.
BOCAFLOJAI can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
BOCAFLOJAI am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
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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