The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America.
BOCAFLOJASo, 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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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in 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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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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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 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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I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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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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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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I 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.
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