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. And those families for generations… — 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 times and in different processes and to make profound analyses, analyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don't necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to… — Bocafloja Copy Share
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 relevant in the US. I, the European, am telling you. I am your political guide, your icon, your mentor for political references. I am telling you that you should support the relevant causes." — Bocafloja Copy Share
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
