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.
BOCAFLOJAI 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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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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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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