This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
BOCAFLOJAThis is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
BOCAFLOJAI believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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 understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
BOCAFLOJAEvery day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism.
BOCAFLOJAAnalyses 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
BOCAFLOJASo, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
BOCAFLOJAI am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
BOCAFLOJAOn the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
BOCAFLOJARacism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
BOCAFLOJAThey have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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.
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