There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
BOCAFLOJAThey have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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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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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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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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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.
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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 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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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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On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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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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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.
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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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So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
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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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