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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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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Day Every Operates Racist Ways
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
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
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
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
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
MTV 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.
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Code Jails Mtv Organization Talking
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
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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Against Dialogue Race Struggle Talk The Question
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
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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Disassociate End Practically Time Understand
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
I 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.
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Antagonistic Believe Exercise Fighting Position
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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The whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, “I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself.”
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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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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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