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.
BOCAFLOJARacism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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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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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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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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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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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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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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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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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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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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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We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a “Panther Baby”.
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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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This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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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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