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1		-2017-03-18 10:53:45.650
	1	+2017-03-18 10:53:45.0

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	1	+====IT WILL NOT GET BETTER–Trayvon Martin and Renisha McBride are our generation's Emmett Till–the promise of the political has never and will never be realized for Black Americans–the American dream and the political is dependent on ever-increasing black suffering ====
	2	+Calvin L. Warren 15, ~~Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University~~, ~~Professor of "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2015, Michigan State University Press. RFK
	3	+Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes even more apparent and
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	5	+advances political apostasy as the only "ethical" response to black suffering.
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	8	+====The aff's colorblind insistence on racial dialogue ignores power dimensions that structures discursive accessibility – "speaking up" only happens within the confines of whiteness and normalizes white hegemony – they place false hope in white people that only results in ressentiment====
	9	+Warren 13, Calvin Warren (research and teaching interests are located at the intersection of contemporary continental theory (semiotics, deconstruction, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis), Afro-pessimism, Ethics, and African American History) Onticide: Toward an Afro-pessimistic Queer Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2013//ghs-mr
	10	+Teaching race literacy is necessary but difficult. In addition, authentic race dialogue is
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	12	+we do not describe what violence looks like, but assess its consequences.
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	15	+====Placing hope in the political constitutes a cruel optimism that keeps blacks chasing after a political object that only strengthens anti-black systems–they'll say "WE CAN'T DO NOTHING" but that's just a link–anti-black systems create a false binary between action and inaction that tricks blacks into continuing to trust the political ====
	16	+Calvin L. Warren 15, ~~Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University~~, ~~Professor of "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2015, Michigan State University Press. RFK
	17	+The politics of hope, then, constitutes what Lauren Berlant would call "cruel
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	19	+the only "hope" for blackness in an anti- black world.
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	22	+====The alternative is black nihilist political apostasy that rejects the anti-black political entirely–NO PARTIAL ATHEISM–the perm fails because it's impossible to support the political structure without participating in the ruse of false transformation and an exploited hope ====
	23	+Calvin L. Warren 15, ~~Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University~~, ~~Professor of "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2015, Michigan State University Press. RFK
	24	+Can we reject this racist god and, at the same time, support the
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	26	+symbolic as inherently wicked and rejects it both as critique and spiritual practice.
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	29	+====The role of the ballot is to question the 1AC's scholarship prior to the consequences of the plan – this means they do not get to weigh the case – we question their starting point.====
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	32	+====The power of anti-blackness lies in the way that culture represents the black subject symbolically and the ways those symbolic representations negatively affect unconscious thoughts and feelings about blackness.====
	33	+Scott 14 (Darieck, Prof of African Diaspora Studies @ Cal Berkeley 2k10; "Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination" pgs.)
	34	+The figure of the Negro, Fanon says, is "woven . . .
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	36	+a past as future anterior under and over a future as past posterior.

EntryDate

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	1	+2017-03-18 10:53:47.352

Judge

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	1	+Nadia Hussein

Opponent

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	1	+Mountain Brook PS

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	1	+26

Round

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	1	+2

Team

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	1	+Greenhill J Zhou Neg

Title

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	1	+JANFEB - Black Nihilism

Tournament

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	1	+Woodward