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+Agonistic discourse is unavailable to the Black body that is at STRUCTURAL ANTAGONISM with white speech. |
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+Curry 13: Dr. Tommy J. (2013) Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas AandM, "In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical", 2013. PESH AK |
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+In the post-structuralist era, post-colonial thinking about racism specifically, |
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+, our ethics become nothing more than the apologetics of our tyrannical epoch. |
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+The constitution is a link—civil rights is an illusion—liberal reform is inherently ANTIBLACK—what policy can the 1AC pass to stop white anxiety? the 1AC’s focus on individual instances of violence ignore that the system is inherently violent. Osterweil 16: |
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+Willie Osterweil is a writer and editor at The New Inquiry. “How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons.” The Nation Jan 6th, 2016. PESH AK |
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+Neither liberals nor conservatives are chomping at the bit to discuss the historical roots of |
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+there is no New Jim Crow without Brown v. Board of Education. |
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+Aff is an instance of interest convergence—white supremacy lets us go free when it benefits them. This is how the system gets legitimized, preventing actual change. We don’t need reforms; we need a radical break from white supremacy. |
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+Lee: Cynthia. 2007 "Cultural convergence: Interest convergence theory meets the cultural defense." Ariz. L. Rev. 49 (2007): 911. Cynthia Lee, professor of law at George Washington University PESH AK |
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+Bell also posited that the Brown decision helped America in its efforts to persuade African |
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+This is an important check on widespread disaffection that may end in revolution.” |
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+Every attempt to resolve the link ends in the same abstractions that allow the system to carry on without protest. If I win a link, you vote there. |
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+Curry 13: Dr. Tommy J. (2013) Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas AandM, "In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical", 2013. PESH AK |
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+To seriously grasp the reality of racist oppression and the sempiternal machinations of anti- |
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+, our ethics become nothing more than the apologetics of our tyrannical epoch. |
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+The alt is to embrace anti-ethics—refuse to ascribe morality to historically racist institutions and reject a morality that is coded white. |
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+Curry 13: Dr. Tommy J. (2013) Most carded author 2015, "In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical", 2013. PESH AK |
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+Racism is not unethical simply because it is a moral affront to the allegedly generalizable |
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+We need to work outside the system, otherwise we risk legitimizing it. |
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+Framework—this debate should be about the development of movements to challenge institutional racism—public consciousness is a prior question to policy specifics.The Role of the Judge is to evaluate the presuppositions of the 1AC prior to the consequences of the plan. Alexander 10: |
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+Alexander, Michelle. “Federalism, Race, and Criminal Justice”, Awakening from the Dream Civil Rights Under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice. 221-224 Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School PESH AK |
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+The list could go on, of course, but the point has been made |
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+We run the risk of winning isolated battles but losing the larger war. |