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.
BOCAFLOJAIf 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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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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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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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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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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The 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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America.
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This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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Every 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.
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We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily.
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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”.
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I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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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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