Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: xx | Judge: xx
Part One is Framing
The role of the judge is to be an inclusive educator and vote for the debater who better performatively and methodologically offers the best liberation strategy for black bodies.
The culture of exclusion and lack of engagement with important conversations about race in status quo LD locks minority debaters out of the discussion. Smith 13
Elijah Smith (2013 Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) and National Debate Tournament (NDT) champion), A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate, Vbriefly, 2013. VL
At every tournament you ... such an endeavor is necessary.
And the judge is not just an adjudicator—they’re also an educator.
a) In round activism against oppression is the biggest impact in debate. Empirics prove that it allows debate to function as a training ground for debaters to go into real world to implement actual productive change. POLSON
The young people ... now has students
Opposing racism is the precondition to moral coherence.
Albert Memmi, 2000, Racism, p. 159-161
Evidently, I am a moderate... treated like a beast.
Policy debates are a scheme of whiteness to maintain institutionalized power. Shaw 04
Shaw in 2004 (Kathleen M., “Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy”, Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 75, Issue 1, rcheek)
Feminist critical policy ...relations of power" (1997a, p. 3).a
Part Two is Environmental Racism
The development of nuclear energy reinforces the fungibility of black bodies – nuclear power disproportionately affect poor minorities.
Dixon 12 Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/
Environmental racism occurs ...we know is there.
It is try or die for the aff – effects on poor minorities are ignored and unresolvable- they are dominated by the majority that silence their cries.
Dixon 12 Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/
“We’ve had meetings ...sold to Florida.
Minorities bear the brunt of harms from pollution
Gwynn, R. Charon, and George D. Thurston. "The burden of air pollution: impacts among racial minorities." Environmental health perspectives109.Suppl 4 (2001): 501.
Among the extensive ... in these potential differences.
Reformist projects will be twisted in ways that feed back into the system. Sexton: Jared Associate professor of African American studies and film and media studies “Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism,” page 45-47 PESH AK
However, the dispute ...classification scheme intact.
Blackness is the position of ontological death. The legacy of America and the world at large is not tainted, but predicated on the gratuitous violence enacted onto the black body. Through every era, this violence haunts the structure of politics and every facet of social life, ensuring disenfranchisement, dishonor and discrimination. The plantation is not gone, but only relocated, first as Jim Crow, and now as the Prison Industrial Complex. ELLIS 11
From recklessly dangerous... of economic privatization.
Natal alienation means the slave never has a starting point in civil society. Wilderson 10
Whereas Humans exist ...in the streets.
Additionally, 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. WILDERSON
Civil society is ... that is not a calling.