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+The 1AC is premised on a politics of hope wed to the notion that society is always redeemable, always progressing, but never quite here. This politics of affirming progress-to-1come naturalizes anti-black violence. Call for reform is the perfection of slavery – the demand for progress is when the slave accepts its dependence on the master. Only abandoning the aff’s political hope subverts this myth of progress which coheres itself through black suffering. |
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+Farley 05 |
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+Anthony Paul, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure and Legal Theory. “Perfecting Slavery” http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp |
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+Slavery is with us still. We are haunted by slavery. We are animated |
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+7 every great house, every plantation, all of it, everything. |
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+Abstract Ethics Fail. Prescriptive “ought” statements imply a moral obligation that the black thinker does not have access to because the world is framed by white supremacy. |
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+Curry 13 |
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+Tommy J. PhD in Associate Professor of Philosophy, Africana Studies, Texas A and M University In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical. 2013. |
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+Ought implies a projected (futural) act. The word commands a deliberate action |
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+what possibility the world allows Blacks to contemplate under the idea of ethics. |
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+Their notions of ethics can’t articulate black life and allows whiteness to theorize about it. |
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+Yancy 08 |
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+Prof of Philosophy Duquesne University “Black Bodies, White Gazes THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2008 |
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+I write out of a personal existential context. This context is a profound source |
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+Black demotion along a scale of human value"(Snead 1994, |
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+And, pretending that anti-black agents are capable of moral action is abstraction that makes ethics impossible. Traditional ethics is an anti black system that only serves to re-entrench white supremacy. |
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+Curry 2 |
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+Dr. Tommy; “In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical” |
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+Traditionally we have taken ethics to be, as Henry Sedgwick claims, "any |
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+, our ethics become nothing more than the apologetics of our tyrannical epoch. |
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+Civil society is structured on the notion of anti-blackness. Social death is an unavoidable condition of existence for the black body— how we relate to this condition is all that is important. |
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+Wilderson |
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+Frank Wilderson, The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal-Presented at Imprisoned Intellectuals Conference at Brown University, April 13th, 2002 |
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+Civil society is not a terrain intended for the Black subject. It is coded |
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+have wanted to learn the steps. They have been, and remain today |
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+The role of the judge is to vote for the debater who better offers the best liberation strategy for black bodies. Traditional ethics fail to recognize the problem of anti-Blackness, as it roots in a philosophy that originates in a view from nowhere. The lack of embodied experience in discussions of ethics and philosophy allows the white body to assume the status of normativity by bracketing all others into their universal ethics. |
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+Yancy 05 |
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+George Yancy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University and Coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Speaker Series, “Whiteness and the Return of the Black Body”, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 19.4 (2005) 215-241, Muse |
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+I write out of a personal existential context. This context is a profound source |
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+of beauty, order, innocence, purity, restraint, and nobility. |
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+The only ethical demand is one that calls for the end of the world itself—the affirmative represents a conflict within the paradigm of America but refuses to challenge the foundational antagonism that produces the violence that undergirds the that same paradigm |
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+Wilderson 10 |
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+2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” |
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+Leaving aside for the moment their state of mind, it would seem that the |
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+the foundation of the close reading of feature films and political theory that follows |