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-====Blackness is constructed in opposition to the political – embrace of a social praxis is key. Rather than attempt to recover from political death, blackness should be embraced as nothingness, which is key to social life.==== |
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-**Moten 13:** Fred, professor at UC Riverside Department of English, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press), recognized as one of ten “New American Poets” by the Poetry Society of America, Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute, was Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, served as a member of the Board of Managing Editors of American Quarterly. “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)” The South Atlantic Quarterly. Fall 2013. SA-IB |
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-Over the course of this essay, we’ll have occasion to consider what that means, by ... in any case, where and what blackness chooses to stay. |
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-====Police accountability rhetoric is uniquely problematic; it presupposes the legitimacy of police – the state can easily counter your accountability mechanism because it is framed in a way where the state still has power.==== |
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-**Hotchkin 15:** Joshua Scott, contributor at CopBlock, a website based on reporting and exposing violent police conduct. “Accountability is Futile – Abolish the Police” November 12, 2015. http://www.copblock.org/146778/abolish-the-police/ SA-IB |
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-Accountability is futile. There really could be nothing so simple to understand ... meet its own requirements. It will always come back to this. |
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-====The 1AC’s minor reform becomes co-opted to expand the system, as opposed to curtail it. Rhetoric of public safety and short term solutions are seized upon to justify the increase of systems of violence.==== |
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-**Shaylor and Chandler 05:** Cassandra Shaylor, co-founder and former co-director of Justice Now and a co-founder of Critical Resistance. Cynthia Chandler, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Justice Now, ad junct professor at Golden Gate University School of Law. “Reform and Abolition: Points of Tension and Connection” Public Eye - Defending Justice. 2005. SA-IB |
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-Most activists in prison and their allies outside want to reduce ... step toward eliminating the prison as a central feature of contemporary life |
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-====Vote negative to celebrate culture and the social as a starting point for deconstructing reliance on legalistic structures.==== |
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-**Moten 13:** Fred, professor at UC Riverside Department of English, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press), recognized as one of ten “New American Poets” by the Poetry Society of America, Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute, was Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, served as a member of the Board of Managing Editors of American Quarterly. “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)” The South Atlantic Quarterly. Fall 2013. SA-IB |
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-This question of the location and position ... beautiful phrase of Wilderson’s (2010: xi)—fantasy in the hold. |
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-====Role of the ballot is to endorse the best liberation strategy for the oppressed. Epistemology comes first – our education spaces must be the first to fight.==== |
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-**Farley 05:** Anthony Paul Farley. “Perfecting Slavery.” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 36 2005. Pps. 112-115 SA-IB |
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-We who have slavery with us still are made up of memory and forgetting ... weapons for refusing to make his peace with it and for destroying it depends on what he decides he is worth. |