Tournament: Beltway | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
Producing nuclear power requires agreeing to the Space Trader’s offer. On one hand, Bell describes a dystopian future. On the other, this future is shockingly similar to the current status of the United States. Bell
Derrick Bell, "Space Traders." 1992.
1 January. The... to their ships.
The AFF advocacy is to stop both symbolically and literally trading African Americans in exchange for Nuclear Power. I defend the implementation of a post-fiat policy to ban the production of nuclear energy.
We must say no to the Space Traders. Bell 2
Derrick Bell, "Space Traders." 1992.
There was a... forebears had arrived.
The ROB is to vote for the debater who best performatively and methodologically challenges Anti-Blackness.
The debate space has failed in breaking down the structures of race by excluding discussion-now is the time for change to occur. Brinkley
Brinkley ’12 (Dr. Shanara Reed-Brinkley, An Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also serves as the Director of Debate for the William Pitt Debating Union. She is a national award winner for her published work on critical theory, black feminist theory, gender, black culture and history, and hip hop culture and theory, Resistance and Debate, “An Open Letter to Sarah Spring” http://resistanceanddebate.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/an-open-letter-to-sarah-spring/)
Lack of community... or social positioning.
Science fiction completely inverts preconceived notions of black identity by radically re-imagining new possibilities of black empowerment. Womack
Womack, Ytasha. Afrofuturism: the world of Black sci-fi and fantasy culture. Chicago Review Press, 2013.
This blossoming culture... at things differently.
Racial Realism is key. Society will never rid itself of oppression, but survival politics is what’s important. Bell
Bell, Derrick. "Racial realism." Conn. L. Rev. 24 (1991): 363.
While implementing Racial... lose every round.
Space Traders’ historicity uncovers uneasy intuitions, ridding complacency. Delgado
Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic. "Derrick Bell's Chronicle of the Space Traders: Would the US Sacrifice People of Color if the Price Were Right." U. Colo. L. Rev. 62 (1991): 321.
Bell's scathing skepticism... universal Good. 48.
Bell’s racial realism is very real-world. Curry
Dr. Tommy J. Curry, “We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bell’s Philosophy of Racial Realism as the basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment.”
This paper intends... of racist oppression.
Passing off subjective conceptions of fairness as objective both justifies and has empirically caused exclusion within the debate space as majority white male conceptions of debate become norms creating entrance barriers. WARNER
Ede Warner Jr. is a Professor of Communications and debate coach at the University of Louisiana, "Go Homers, Makeovers or Takeovers? A Privilege Analysis of Debate as a Gaming Simulation.” 2013.
More often than... acknowledged to date.
