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.
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.
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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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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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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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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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And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren’t.
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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 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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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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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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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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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 believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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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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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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