Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Loyola AO | Judge: Miyamoto, Dan
Alexander 10, Associate Professor of Law
~2010, Michelle Alexander, is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, a civil rights advocate and a writer. "New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" ProQuest ebrary, pp. 221-224~
The list could go on, of course, but the point has been made
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We run the risk of winning isolated battles but losing the larger war.
Challenging institutional racism is a prior ethical question— it makes violence structurally inevitable and is the basis for all morality
Albert Memmi 2k, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission
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. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible.
Thus the plan: Public colleges and universities should allow Black Lives Matter protests everywhere on campus.
Tony Marrero. February 23, 2016. Staff Writer. Marrero covers breaking news and general assignment stories in Hillsborough County. "Lawyer for students arrested at Black Lives Matter protest says USF email had 'chilling effect'" Tampa Bay Times Accessed 1/13/17 http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/college/usf-students-arrested-in-black-lives-matter-protest-says-university-had/2266551 | AM
TAMPA — Two weeks after their arrest on a trespassing charge at the Florida State
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from continuing forward," Wilson said. "We're still going to protest."
Restriction harms progressive movements against racism and hampers groups like BLM. McAuliffe 16
(Kathleen McAuliffe, "95 of Colleges Prohibit Constitutionally Protected Speech.", Personal Portfolio, 07/04/2016, https://kathleenamcauliffe.com/2016/07/04/95-of-colleges-prohibit-constitutionally-protected-speech/)
But is censorship really a bad thing? After all, adhering strictly to legal standards forces college to accept some morally indefensible, racist, sexist, homophobic speech. Moral implications notwithstanding, it’s a costly proposition for colleges that increasingly perceive students as stakeholders. What are the alternatives, though? If administrators don’t legislate speech on its legal merits, what standards will they use? Without legal precedent, college administrators are left to rely on their own personal interpretations of propriety. Placed in the wrong hands, that power undermines the education of all college students, social activists or otherwise. When professors can be fired for offending students, they’re dis-incentivized from voicing the controversial ideas that are just as likely to foster progress as prejudice. When administrators and activists bar student journalists from their own campus’ events, when they respond to controversial opinion pieces with threats to slash funding or stop publication, we’re all cheated out of constructive debate. Charged with exposing us to diverse perspectives, thus incubating our evolving political and social views, universities instead communicate that, nah, some topics are just too controversial to engage. They prevent us from confronting the realities of society, challenging our assumptions, and transcending our singular perspectives. They instill in my generation a fear of controversial opinions. Consider the ramifications for my generation as it enters the electorate, media, and political establishment. When we can’t even discuss issues of discrimination, rape, and social inequality without retribution, how can we ever be expected to overcome them? When we’ve been so discouraged from discussing our differences, how can we keep them from destroying us? Think about the hyperpolarization, intolerance, and sweeping generalization dominating the political discourse. In four years alone, it’s resulted in a government shutdown, historic Congressional futility, race riots, and xenophobia. By indulging the intolerance of their students, colleges encourage and ensure these destructive forces in the next generation.====
Jeff Nesbit. 3/28/16 Nesbit was the National Science Foundation's director of legislative and public affairs in the Bush and Obama administrations; former Vice President Dan Quayle's communications director; the FDA's public affairs chief; and a national journalist with Knight-Ridder and others. He's the executive director of Climate Nexus and the author of more than 24 books. "America Has a Big Race Problem" US News Accessed 12/26/16 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-28/america-has-a-big-race-problem | AM
When young, black teenaged men are shot and killed by white police officers and
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harbor beliefs about racial and ethnic minorities that are based on racist stereotypes.
Jarvis Tyner. 3/5/15 Tyner is Chair of the New York District of the Communist Party USA. "Black lives matter! The struggle against police murders, brutality and abuse" Political Affairs Accessed 12/3/16 http://www.politicalaffairs.net/black-lives-matter-the-struggle-against-police-murders-brutality-and-abuse/ | AM
"Black Lives Matter" is basically a call for an end to racial profiling
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reaction showed that the demonstrations were having a major impact on public opinion.
Sandhya Somashekhar. November 17, 2015. Somashekhar is the social change reporter for the Washington Post. "How Black Lives Matter, born on the streets, is rising to power on campus" Washington Post Accessed 12/18/16 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-black-lives-matter-born-on-the-streets-is-rising-to-power-on-campus/2015/11/17/3c113e96-8959-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76'story.html | AM
The Black Lives Matter movement was born on the working-class streets of Ferguson
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1980s, and protests over the war in Iraq during the past decade.
University protests are key to solve – squo and history prove. Curwen et al 15
Thomas Curwen, Jason Song, and Larry Gordon. November 18, 2015. Curwen is an award-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked as editor of the Outdoors section, deputy editor of the Book Review and an editor at large for features. He was part of the team of Times reporters who won a Pulitzer for their work covering the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. Song covered higher education with an emphasis on community colleges and online learning. He was part of the Los Angeles Times team that won the Scripps Howard Award for Public Service in 2011 and the Philip Meyer Award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization. Gordon was a higher education writer for the Los Angeles Times and covered issues affecting colleges and universities in California and around the nation. He has been an assistant city editor and an urban affairs writer at The Times. "What's different about the latest wave of college activism" LA Times Accessed 12/27/16 http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-campus-unrest-20151118-story.html | AM
If the University of Missouri was the spark, then the fire didn't take long
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Cohen said: whether campuses are diverse enough or how to reduce racism.
Saunders 5 ~Rebecca Comparative Lit @ Illinois St., "Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic" Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle Eas p. 529-532~
Risk-free ethics, like all protection from risk, are a class privilege
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which judging is everywhere beset. . . . to admit that ‘obligation’
Nixon 11 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 2-3)
Three primary concerns animate this book, chief among them my conviction that we urgently
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in situations where the conditions for sustaining life become increasingly but gradually degraded.
Use of policy and the state is the only way to deconstruct racism – rejection reentrenches racist ideologies
Bouie 13, staff writer at The American Prospect, Making and Dismantling Racism, http://prospect.org/article/making-and-dismantling-racism
Over at The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has been exploring the intersection of
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helped destroy it. There's no reason racism can't work the same way.
~0:22~ And, independently, the state isn’t irredeemable – using the state is possible even if it’s ideologically opposed to us. Kapoor ‘08
Kapoor, 2008 (Ilan, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, "The Postcolonial Politics of Development," p. 138-139)
There are perhaps several other social movement campaigns that could be cited as examples of
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made it difficult for the state to quash them or deflect their claims.
Zanotti 14 (Dr. Laura Zanotti is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research and teaching include critical political theory as well as international organizations, UN peacekeeping, democratization and the role of NGOs in post-conflict governance."Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World" – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304, obtained via school library being awesome.)
While there are important variations in the way international relations scholars use governmentality theory,
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where they are made rather than based upon their universal normative aspirations. 13
