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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 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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Average Dependence Strong Thinking
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
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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Analysis Believe Profound
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
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Aesthetic Culture Industry Levels
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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Class Struggle Thinking Understand
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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Different Signifies Space World
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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Country Equal Founded Maintained Reality Themselves
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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Captures Community Speech Stop
I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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Belief Games Moving Politics
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
This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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Obviously People Theme Uncomfortable
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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Cutting Exercise Organization
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
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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Analysis Connect Critical Musically
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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Exercises Greeting Laugh Racist Situations Smile

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