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-====NOBODY IS INNOCENT WHEN ANTI-BLACK RACISM HAS OCCURRED |
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-The process of debate is not free from the lens of racial bias. An activity that is painted with the brush of whiteness is not devoid of prejudicial, subjective and preferential decisions that privilege white presence and students at the expense of black bodies. Our argument will be that institutional racism has moved beyond OVERT forms of discrimination and individual bigotry shifting to a COVERT and more insidious form of exclusion that is difficult to measure, RACISM WITHOUT RACISTS. |
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-THE CONFRONTATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PRIVILEGE ALSO EXTENDS TO THE JUDGE IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM!!!!!!! |
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-All of you as judges have the responsibility to stand for something your ballots become norms in the community it is never ok to discriminate against black people and all who are related to this discrimination should be punished. |
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-Aversive Racism is unconscious and is more likely to lead to discriminatory decisions when the choices are not clear-cut and competing arguments are flying about. In the game of debate this means that in close decisions our race based arguments from our social location are more likely to be pushed to the margins and our personal convictions isolated to the periphery. |
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-The decision becomes an averted way to say I don’t feel comfortable voting for your personal race based arguments usually coming across as “you dropped this or that argument” or “if you had only said XYZ” you would have won. |
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-OR WE FELT UNCOMFORTABLE HAVING THAT BLACK GUY JUDGE US |
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-====The role of the judge is to be an educator in the debate space—that requires rejecting debaters who performativity or methodologically justify racism—WE DON’T EXIST IN A VACCUM==== |
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-Vincent 13 – (Christopher Debate Coach, former college NDT debater “Re-Conceptualizing Our Performances: Accountability In Lincoln Douglas Debate” http://victorybriefs.com/vbd/2013/10/re-conceptualizing-our-performances-accountability-in-lincoln-douglas-debate) GHS//GB |
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-Charles Mills argues that “the moral concerns of African Americans have centered on the |
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-color, and in turn destroy the transformative potential this community could have. |
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-====Faced with complex decisions aversive racists feel doubt about a BLACK person and attribute that doubt to other areas. |
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-This is especially important at the NDCA tournament that has made a direct attempt at increasing diversity in both policy and Lincoln Douglas.==== |
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-Kristoff op ed columnist for the NY TIMES 2k8 |
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-Nicholas- (w) 2 time Pulitzer Prize winner, former Associate Managing editor of the Times, member of the NYT staff since 1984; Racism Without Racists; NYTIMES; Oct. 4; op-ed column; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05kristof.html |
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-One of the fallacies this election season is that if Barack Obama is paying an |
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-1960. ¶ It just might happen again, this time with race. |
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-====AS THE JUDGE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO USE YOUR BALLOT AS A WAY OF CONFRONTING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS THAT I HAVE BROUGHT TO LIGHT. A VOTE FOR THE NEGATIVE IS A VOTE FOR REJECTING THIS INSIDIOUS FORM OF RACISM THAT DENIES IS OPPRESIVE STATUS IN A SOCIETY THAT TURNS AWAY FROM THE PLIGHT OF THE BLACK BODY. |
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-The exclusion of black adjudicators kills the integrity of debate and mask racism this is exactly what happened. In this debate, they are the prosecutor, you are the Justice Department and I am the defense, THE Equal justice initiative ’10,==== |
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-llegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection:¶ A Continuing Legacy¶ Equal Justice Initiative¶ The Equal Justice Initiative is a non-profit law organization with headquarters in¶ Montgomery, Alabama.¶ For more information, please contact:¶ Equal Justice Initiative¶ 122 Commerce Street¶ Montgomery, Alabama 36104¶ (334) 269-1803¶ www.eji.org¶ Email: raceandjury@eji.org¶ August 2010, http://www.eji.org/files/EJI20Race20and20Jury20Report.pdf |
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-The 1875 Civil Rights Act outlawed race-based discrimination in jury service, but |
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-diversity absolutely critical¶ to preserving the credibility of the criminal justice system. |
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-====THE NDCA TOURNAMENT MADE A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO HIRE BLACK JUDGES AND MAKE DEBATE A MORE INCLUSIVE SPACE. WHEN YOU STRIKE ALL OF THEM, YOU CREATE AN INCENTIVE FOR TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS TO NOT HIRE BLACK JUDGES BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEY WON’T BE USED. THIS CONTINUES THE CYCLE OF OPPRESSION THAT I HAVE MADE VISIBLE. |
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-HE’S GOING TO SAY THE STRIKE TO NOT RANK HIGH ENOUGH TO NOT END UP ON A PANEL: ALSTON, SUNHEE, NADIA, THE CEDA AND NDT CHAMPION AND TOP SPEAKER IS ALL BASED ON STYLISTIC DIFFERENCE… IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING ELSE! |
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-AND THAT’S EXACTLY OUR ARGUMENT. FOLLOWING THE ANALOGY OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, THEIR REASONS ARE MERELY MASKS AND DISGUISES FOR THEIR ATTEMPT TO AVOID VIOLATING THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW. OF COURSE IT WAS A STRATEGIC DECISION, YOU DON’T WANT TO CONFRONT YOUR WHITE PRIVILEGE SO YOU EXCLUDE THE VOICES WHO WOULD FORCE YOU TO. |
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-IF THERE IS A SHRED OF DOUBT IN YOUR MIND THAT THE REASON SUNHEE, ALSTON, DEVANE, AND NADIA, ALL OF WHICH ARE MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE JUDGING THESE DEBATES, ARE NOT ON THIS PANEL BECAUSE THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO STRIKE THEM THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT, THEN YOU SHOULD VOTE NEG. |
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-THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO GIVE A SINGLE REASON THAT IS NOT MOTIVATED BY RACE AS TO WHY THE BLACK JUDGES HAVE WERE BARRED FROM BEING ON THIS PANEL. |
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-NOT PREFF BLACK MEANS NO INCENTIVE TO HIRE, THEY DON’T THINK THEYL BE USED, SELF PERPETUATING CYCLE |
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-WHY DOES THIS MATTER? |