I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
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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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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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 can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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So, 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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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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A 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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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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I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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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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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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A 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.
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What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence.
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I would say it is one of the forms at the idea level, and through the work they have achieved, one of the most dignified historical examples that has happened in the history of the world.
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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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