black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.

Bocafloja

Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
BOCAFLOJA

Day Every Operates Racist Ways
I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America.
BOCAFLOJA

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.
BOCAFLOJA

Analysis Believe Profound
I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
BOCAFLOJA

Belief Games Moving Politics
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Country Framer Latin Media Son
I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
BOCAFLOJA

Disassociate End Practically Time Understand
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Captures Community Speech Stop
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Excessive Fight Like Operates Whiteness
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Against Dialogue Race Struggle Talk The Question
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.”
BOCAFLOJA

Connect Conscious Operated People Themselves
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Happened History Marginalized World
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
BOCAFLOJA

Aesthetic Culture Industry Levels
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
BOCAFLOJA

Exercises Greeting Laugh Racist Situations Smile
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.
BOCAFLOJA

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.
BOCAFLOJA

Descendents Latin Race Struggle
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.
BOCAFLOJA

Country Equal Founded Maintained Reality Themselves

This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bocafloja Quotes