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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 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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Functions Game Pieces Play Spectrum Strategy
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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Different Signifies Space World
This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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Obviously People Theme Uncomfortable
Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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Day Every Operates Racist Ways
The 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.”
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Connect Conscious Operated People Themselves
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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Code Jails Mtv Organization Talking
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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Changed Country Independent Latin Owner
They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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Add Articular Equalize Historical Process
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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Exercises Greeting Laugh Racist Situations Smile
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren’t.
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Country Equal Founded Maintained Reality Themselves
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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Aesthetic Culture Industry Levels
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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Disassociate End Practically Time Understand
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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Average Dependence Strong Thinking
I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.
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Analysis Believe Profound
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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Cutting Exercise Organization

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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