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.
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.
BOCAFLOJAThey have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
BOCAFLOJALike Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.
BOCAFLOJAI think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America.
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.
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 have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily.
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.
BOCAFLOJAA 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.
BOCAFLOJAThe 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.”
BOCAFLOJAI am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
BOCAFLOJARacism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
BOCAFLOJASo, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
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.
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.
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.
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