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+====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==== |
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+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 |
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+Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes even more apparent and |
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+advances political apostasy as the only “ethical” response to black suffering. |
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+====THE CONSTITUTION WAS MADE TO PROTECT SLAVERY AND ENSURED A LEGACY OF RACISM- THE IDEA THAT THIS DOCUMENT CAN DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT BLACK PEOPLE IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF PLACING FAITH IN A BROKEN SYSTEM==== |
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+Rael ’15 (Patrick, Sep 21st, Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His most recent book, Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 (University of Georgia Press, 2015), explores the Atlantic history of slavery to understand the exceptionally long period of time it took to end chattel bondage in America, “Racist Principles: Slavery and the Constitution”, We’re History, http://werehistory.org/racist-principles/~-~-ghs//sk) |
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+Wilentz is wrong. The Constitution incorporated slavery into our national system of governance. |
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+, we might embrace the opportunity to confront that terrible truth with rectitude. |
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+====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==== |
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+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 |
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+The politics of hope, then, constitutes what Lauren Berlant would call “cruel |
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+the only “hope” for blackness in an anti- black world. |
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+====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==== |
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+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 |
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+Can we reject this racist god and, at the same time, support the |
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+AND |
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+symbolic as inherently wicked and rejects it both as critique and spiritual practice. |
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+====THE ROB IS TO QUESTION THE 1AC’S SCHOLARSHIP PRIOR TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PLAN AND THE RESOLUTION |
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+Representations must precede policy discussion- they shape our realities and how we formulate moral reasoning- precludes their FW too==== |
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+Neta Crawford ,PhD MA MIT, BA Brown, Prof. of poli sci at boston univ. Argument and Change in World Politics, 2002 p. 19-21 |
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+Coherent arguments are unlikely to take place unless and until actors, at least on |
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+AND |
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+entrepreneurs without serious political wrangling.” Hence framing is a meta-argument. |