We 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”.
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”.
BOCAFLOJAEuropean 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.
BOCAFLOJAI 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.
BOCAFLOJAThe racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time.
BOCAFLOJAIn 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.
BOCAFLOJAPower, 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.
BOCAFLOJAI think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America.
BOCAFLOJASo, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
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 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.
BOCAFLOJAI can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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.
BOCAFLOJAI believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
BOCAFLOJAI 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.
BOCAFLOJAMTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren’t talking about ethical codes, they aren’t talking about forms of political organization, they don’t speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.
BOCAFLOJAThe 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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