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.
BOCAFLOJAAnalyses 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.
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.
BOCAFLOJARacism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
BOCAFLOJAWe have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily.
BOCAFLOJAEuropean 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.
BOCAFLOJAThe Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America.
BOCAFLOJAMTV 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.
BOCAFLOJAThe 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.”
BOCAFLOJAThey have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
BOCAFLOJAThey 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.
BOCAFLOJAI understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
BOCAFLOJAI 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.
BOCAFLOJAA 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.
BOCAFLOJAEvery 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.
BOCAFLOJAI am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
BOCAFLOJAOn the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
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