black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bocafloja

It’s like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.
BOCAFLOJA

Excessive Fight Like Operates Whiteness
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Changed Country Independent Latin Owner
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
BOCAFLOJA

Exercises Greeting Laugh Racist Situations Smile
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.”
BOCAFLOJA

Connect Conscious Operated People Themselves
I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
BOCAFLOJA

Disassociate End Practically Time Understand
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
BOCAFLOJA

Aesthetic Culture Industry Levels
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Antagonistic Believe Exercise Fighting Position
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Against Dialogue Race Struggle Talk The Question
European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, “Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is relevant in the US.
BOCAFLOJA

Country Icons People Support
This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
BOCAFLOJA

Obviously People Theme Uncomfortable
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Captures Community Speech Stop
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Exercise Identified Laughing Racism
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Analysis Connect Critical Musically
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Functions Game Pieces Play Spectrum Strategy
So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
BOCAFLOJA

Access Country Majority Power
I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
BOCAFLOJA

Belief Games Moving Politics

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bocafloja Quotes