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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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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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Aesthetic Culture Industry Levels
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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Exercises Greeting Laugh Racist Situations Smile
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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Expereience Gangsta Political Rap Systematic
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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Cutting Exercise Organization
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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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
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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Different Signifies Space World
Like 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.
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Country Culture East Like Middle Rappers States United
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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Analysis Believe Profound
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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Country Equal Founded Maintained Reality Themselves
They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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Add Articular Equalize Historical Process
Analyses 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.
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Analysis Connect Critical Musically
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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Day Every Operates Racist Ways
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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Connect Conscious Operated People Themselves
If 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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Captures Community Speech Stop

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