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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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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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Exercise Identified Laughing Racism
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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Average Dependence Strong Thinking
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 can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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Belief Games Moving Politics
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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Country Framer Latin Media Son
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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Color Exercise Political Question Skin
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
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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Exercises Greeting Laugh Racist Situations Smile
The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America.
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Descendents Latin Race Struggle
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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Disassociate End Practically Time Understand
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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Changed Country Independent Latin Owner
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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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 believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
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
Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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Day Every Operates Racist Ways

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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