Calm seas never made a good sailor
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
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, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.
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.
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. 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.
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 well-read or critical analysis.
I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.
Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U. N. Resolution 1441.
I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of. . . I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.