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". He knew, he came from that experience of the Black Panthers,… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive. — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself at different… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, "Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So,… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time. I understand that… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to your face… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
