The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time.
BOCAFLOJARacism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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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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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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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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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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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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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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MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren’t talking about ethical codes, they aren’t talking about forms of political organization, they don’t speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.
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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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I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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