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.
BOCAFLOJAI 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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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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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The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time.
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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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What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence.
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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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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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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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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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This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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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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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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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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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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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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