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+==Part 1: Loading the Dock== |
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+====The erasure of Port Chicago from our history reveals something fundamental about current debates about nuclear technology and Western development in general: black lives are always fungible. ==== |
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+**Vogel, Peter. "THE LAST WAVE FROM PORT CHICAGO." The Black Scholar 13, no. 2/3 (1982): 30-47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41066881.** |
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+On the morning of August 6, 1945, during the hour when most em |
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+that there is evidence indicating that the explosion at Port Chicago was nuclear. |
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+====Through the creation of the Racism/Ethnicism complex, a global system of antiblackness was legitimized resulting in a "truth" that coincides with a narrative that continues to benefit the West while subjugating the world's darker races. Regardless of where you are in the world, you will find the negativity of everything Black and the positivity of white preservation and existence. Wynter 06:==== |
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+**Syliva Wynter—2006 ( "Interview with Syliva Wynter,ProudFlesh Interview: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness, Issue 4)** |
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+SYLVIA WYNTER: I want to remind you of what Black Studies asked for. |
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+of the period to which we give the name, "The Sixties." |
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+====A psycho-intellectual struggle that challenges consciousness as we know it is necessary to break down overrepresentations surrounding the European conception of Man and the subjugation of the Other. Thus, the Role of the Judge is to be a psycho-intellectual invested in challenging Eurocentric consciousness. The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who provides the best liberation strategy.==== |
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+==Part 2: The Exportation of Death== |
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+====Similar to the silence around Port Chicago, discussions surrounding nuclear power are erased and denied in order to preserve a narrative of progress and sustainability which maintains docility while the transfer of metaphysical and literal death continues in secret.==== |
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+**Perrow, Charles. "Nuclear denial: from Hiroshima to Fukushima." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 69.5 (2013): 56-67.** |
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+The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which began in March 2011, is unique in |
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+for governmental and commercial interests and allows nuclear power to continue expanding worldwide. |
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+====In a buoy effect, the destruction of nuclear weaponry continues to replicate itself as black folk continue to have their humanity denied every time they are greeted by nuclear waste and corporate trash in their back yards. Peterson 16 ==== |
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+Josh Peterson is a reporter who works Urban News Service at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources "Near Ferguson, Nuclear Waste Fears Haunt Burning Landfill and Community" April 13, 2016 http://afro.com/near-ferguson-nuclear-waste-fears-haunt-burning-landfill-and-community/ |
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+Outside Ferguson, Missouri, another issue burns. This time, it's environmental. |
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+down, or privatized) in the name of "building back better." |
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+==Part 3: Oiling the Machine== |
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+====Nuclear power production has now become a tool of neocolonialism that not only creates destruction where a plant is settled, but relies on an elaborate socioeconomic scheme that is parasitic on the exploitation of black people in Africa. The depleting sources of uranium and plutonium have given the West another road into stealing and overconsuming Africa's resources. Wittman 11:==== |
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+**Wittmann, N. (2011, 06). The scramble for africa's nuclear resources. New African,, 72-74. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/903556455?accountid=14026** |
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+The nuclear powers are increasingly experiencing and preparing for problems of supply with the necessary |
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+, whereasNiger in that year remained 172^^nd^^ in the UND Phuman development index. |
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+====The bandaid policies of today's green movements and nuclear power supporters evidently shows that black lives do not matter. It is not until we recognize that the liberation of the environment is contingent on black people surviving AND thriving that we can truly address the issue of climate change. Klein 14:==== |
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+**Klein, 12/12/14 ~~Naomi, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). She is a contributing editor for Harper's and reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian. "Why ~~#BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate", The Nation, **https://www.thenation.com/article/what-does-blacklivesmatter-have-do-climate-change/, BJM~~ |
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+What climate change tells us is that this is as true at a global, |
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+alarm fire, and the lives it has taken already are too many. |
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+==Part 4: Destroying the Cargo== |
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+====It is time for us to demand and affirm the humanity of black lives in the face of white dominance. Thus, I advocate that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power as an act of rupturing the European conception of Man and society.==== |
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+====Dismantling these systems and quick-fix policies requires scrutiny and reconstruction of current relational human subjectivity. Only through the aff can we begin to move towards a post-humanist world that is new and unrecognizable.==== |
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+**Frazier, January 2016** ~~Chelsea M, PhD Candidate in the Department of African American Studies @ Northwestern University, MA in Department of American Studies @ Purdue University, Critical Ethnic Studies, "Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Octavia Butler, and Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism", Vol. 2, No. 1, https://northwestern.academia.edu/ChelseaFrazier, BJM~~ |
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+Following Wynter, I insist that "the West" itself—its divisions of |
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+and nonhuman entities, and initiate alternative notions of environmental/ecological ethics. |
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+====Only a rejection of nuclear power begins to open the door to energy that not only sustains the environment, but sustains black livelihood. A shift to alternatives is where we need to go. Wittman 11==== |
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+The often highlighted |
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