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.
BOCAFLOJAIt’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.
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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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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.
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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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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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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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 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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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