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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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If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn’t, doesn’t, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.
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Captures Community Speech Stop
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
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
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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Country Culture East Like Middle Rappers States United
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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Country Latin Race 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
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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Baby Degree Gangsta Rap Rapper
I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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Belief Games Moving Politics
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
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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Descendents Latin Race Struggle
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
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
I 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.
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Happened History Marginalized World
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
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
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
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
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
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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Antagonistic Believe Exercise Fighting Position
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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Corresponds Country Imaginary People Racism
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
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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Color Exercise Political Question Skin
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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Expereience Gangsta Political Rap Systematic
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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Country Framer Latin Media Son
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 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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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
It’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.
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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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