Culture serves as one of if not the most powerful tools that we can utilize to defeat colonialism. Colonialism's strength lies in its ability to destroy the unique characteristic and nature of the people it wishes to control. The colonizer knows and understands that in order to be successful he must break the individual and his culture in order to implement in its place the culture and attitudes of the colonizer. This allows the notions of superiority of the colonizer to be cemented into the colonized. He, the colonizer, realizes that if the colonized maintain their culture and value system they will never be fully entrenched into the oppressive and inhumane conditioning of colonialism. So long as people are conscious of their uniqueness and identify themselves with it they will fight to liberate themselves. The same way that the colonizer understands their mechanism's importance, so should we who are conscious of their attempts to utilize it be to utilize our weapon of cultural reaffirmation. When we become conscious of who we are we break the limitations and cleanse ourselves of the conditioning of colonialism. By seeking knowledge of self we seek to be liberated. We enable ourselves to see and strive to go beyond the limited and weak position that colonialism places us in. Truth be told, I have been missing my little island and music has a way of transporting me back home so I made a quick 45 minute mix of some of my favorite tracks dedicated to Borinquen. Of course there is a political undertone..their should be. Its all over and far from clean cut, but so is our reality. I have another mix cooked up too. #puertorico #borinquen #pedroalbizucampos #lolitalebron #rafaelcancelmiranda #ramonemeteriobetances #irvingflores #despiertaborincano (at soundcloud.com/christianmartir)