Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All
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Tournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Apple Valley HC | Judge: Akhil Jalan
FW
An Afrocentric Epistemology is needed for ALL Africans to better themselves.
Bakari 97
Bakari, R. Sentwali, "Epistemology from an Afrocentric Perspective: Enhancing Black Students' Consciousness through an Afrocentric Way of Knowing" (1997). Different Perspectives on Majority Rules (1997). Paper 20. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/pocpwi2/20
Examined in this
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were the same.
Afrocentrism is the liberation rocket to uplift all Blacks over White Kind, in order for our past not to be forgotten an Afrocentric framework is needed now!
Walker 01
Walker, Clarence Earl. We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism. N.p.: Oxford U Press, 2001. Print.
(Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Deromanticizing Black History and A Rock in a Weary Land)
To conclude that
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oniy repeats it.
Thus the ROB: endorse the debater that best provides a method of liberation for the BLACK BODY.
ROJ: frame today’s round from a Afrocentric methodology.

Adv 1. Africana Womanism
Black women are the forefront for every movement, for example civil rights
Joseph 13
Tiffany D. Joseph. “Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement: 1960-1970.” Brown University. Web. 17 November 2013.
http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/tiffany_joseph_thesis.html
Tiffany Joseph completed
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facilitate social change.

Black women are rampant on college/university campuses. Their protection is key.
Wilder et al 13
Wilder, Jeffri Anne; Jones, Tamara Bertrand; and Osborne-Lampkin, La’Tara (2013) "A Profile of Black Women in the 21st Century Academy: Still Learning from the “Outsider-Within”," Journal of Research Initiatives: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 5. Available at: http://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/jri/vol1/iss1/5
In this article
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“outsider-within” category.

Protecting free speech allows Africana Womanism, which is the best possible way to have an instance of Radical Remembering because it allows all voices to be heard.
Weems 08
Hudson-Weems, Clenora. Africana Womanism and Race and Gender in the Presidential Candidacy of Barack Obama. Revised ed. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008. Print.
Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems is Professor of English at University of Missouri
Africana womanism, a
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the Africana community.

The concerns of Africana Women and MEN have to be addressed in regards of African Culture.
Weems2
Hudson-Weems, Clenora. Africana Womanism and Race and Gender in the Presidential Candidacy of Barack Obama. Revised ed. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008. Print.
Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems is Professor of English at University of Missouri
While Africana women
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on all fronts.

Adv 2. Islamophobia
On college campuses, there’s bias towards Muslims and large amounts of Muslim violence
Bishop 15
Bishop, Tyler “Being Muslim on Campus,” November 20, 2015. The Atlantic. Web.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/muslim-students-university/416994/
Even before the
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seems particularly urgent.

Free Speech lets us learn about them, instead of being lab rats. Impact: Protecting their speech prevents Islamophobia and creates diversity
Al-Sharif and Pasque 16
Al-Sharif, Mary Ann Bodine and Pasque, Penny A. “Addressing Islamophobia on College Campuses,” May 4, 2016. Higher Education Today. Web.
(Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif and Penny A. Pasque discuss the climate at U.S. colleges and universities for Muslim students, faculty and staff)
https://higheredtoday.org/2016/05/04/addressing-islamophobia-on-college-campuses/ American Council on Education
As a higher
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fight against Islamophobia.

We protect the large percentage of Black Muslims, like Nation of Islam.
Omanson 13
Omanson, Lisa Gail. "African-American and Arab American Muslim communities in the Detroit Ummah." MA (Master of Arts) thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2597
Islam became a
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1950’s and 60’s.

Tournament: Newark | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison SO | Judge: Clement Agho-Otoghile
An Afrocentric Epistemology is needed for ALL Africans to better themselves.
Bakari 97
Bakari, R. Sentwali, "Epistemology from an Afrocentric Perspective: Enhancing Black Students' Consciousness through an Afrocentric Way of Knowing" (1997). Different Perspectives on Majority Rules (1997). Paper 20. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/pocpwi2/20
Examined in this...
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...were the same.
Thus the ROB: endorse the debater that best provides a method of liberation
ROJ: frame today’s round from a Afrocentric methodology.
Walker Afrocentrism is the liberation rocket to uplift all Blacks over White Kind, in order for our past not to be forgotten an Afrocentric framework is needed now!
Walker 01
Walker, Clarence Earl. We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism. N.p.: Oxford U Press, 2001. Print.
(Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Deromanticizing Black History and A Rock in a Weary Land)
To conclude that...
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only repeats it.

Advantage: Africana Womanism
Lomax Black women are excluded in academia
Lomax 15
Lomax, Tamura “Black Women’s Lives Don’t Matter in Academia Either, or Why I Quit Academic Spaces that Don’t Value Black Women’s Life and Labor” May 18, 2015. The Feminist Wire. Web.
http://www.thefeministwire.com/2015/05/black-womens-lives-dont-matter-in-academia-either-or-why-i-quit-academic-spaces-that-dont-value-black-womens-life/
(Tamura A. Lomax received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Religion, where she specialized in African American Religion, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African American and Diaspora Studies, and Black British and U.S. Black Cultural Studies)
In other words...
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abuse as normative.

YET, Black women are rampant on college campuses and are instrumental in every advance in academia.
Wilder et al 13
Wilder, Jeffri Anne; Jones, Tamara Bertrand; and Osborne-Lampkin, La’Tara (2013) "A Profile of Black Women in the 21st Century Academy: Still Learning from the “Outsider-Within”," Journal of Research Initiatives: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 5. Available at: http://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/jri/vol1/iss1/5
In this article...
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...outsider-within” category.

Womanism opens up spaces of the university in debate to creates sites of discourse and disrupt spaces of whiteness. THUS, this contests the hegemonic structures of deliberation that marginalize marked bodies. AND, true deliberation is impossible unless the embodiment of the speakers is directly confronted which is the best possible way to have an instance of Radical Remembering because it allows all voices to be heard.
Weems 08
Hudson-Weems, Clenora. Africana Womanism and Race and Gender in the Presidential Candidacy of Barack Obama. Revised ed. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008. Print.
Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems is Professor of English at University of Missouri
Africana womanism, a...
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...the Africana community.

The experiences of black women are unique as the specificity of violence manifest itself differently. No other approach can solve this issue.
James 2013
(Joy. James. Afrarealism and the Black Matrix. The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research)
Racial rape is...
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...well as justice.

AFF is key to discussion of herstory as it relates to policing the colorline. Only a rejection of dominate narratives of black violence allow us to put Black women in the forefront of our discussion instead of tokens
Carby 97
White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood 1997 Hazel V. Carby professor of African American Studies and of American Studies at Yale University Ph.D., Birmingham University, England, 1984
In arguing that...
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...you say "we"?

Black female suffering is essentialized through a discussion of black trauma but the language that initiated Black Female violence becomes invisible
James 13
(Joy James The Black Scholar Volume 43 Number 4 Winter 2013Page 125-126 James is is the F. C. Oakley Third Century Chair, Professor in Humanities and of political science at Williams College)
Historically, captive females...
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...of critical philosophy.

And, Freedom of speech requires emancipation from social oppression – instead of viewing freedom of speech as a negative individual right, we should understand it as the right to speak up.
Hornsby 95
Jennifer Hornsby "Disempowered Speech" University of Arkansas Press Philosophical Topics, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminist Perspectives on Language, Knowledge, and Reality (FALL 1995)
Free speech is...
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...will be indispensable.

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Neenah MA | Judge: Jeff Joseph
PLAN: The USG will limit qualified immunity by altering the ‘clearly established’ element of qualified immunity

DoJ can make them have consent decree
Domanick
Joe Domanick is associate director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay and West Coast Bureau Chief of The Crime Report.
http://thecrimereport.org/2014/07/15/2014-07-police-reforms-best-tool-a-federal-consent-decree/
Since the law came into effect 20 years ago...Seattle, Albuquerque, NM and Newark, NJ.

Part 1 – Framework
I value morality 

Moral law is centered on agents of morality therefore no justification can be valid if it allows for degrading conditions.
James Rachels 86’, American philosopher who specialized in ethics and animal rights, Kantian Theory: The Idea of Human Dignity The Elements of Moral Philosophy, pp. 114-17,122-23., http://public.callutheran.edu/~chenxi/phil345_022.pdf
Second, and even more important, humans...not comparable to the value of anything else.

Thus the criterion is respecting human worth.

ROB – vote for the debater that best supports a method of liberation.

Part 2 – WAR CITY

Qualified immunity justifies terrorizing black neighborhoods. Essentially, police know can get away with anything, and are aware of that. We have to remember; police have to listen to the Federal Government.
Carter ‘15
Tom Carter – WSWS Legal Correspondent, a lawyer (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/24/cart-f24.html). “US Supreme Court Expands Immunity for Killer Cops.” Center for Research on Globalization. November 12, 2015. http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-supreme-court-expands-immunity-for-killer-cops/5488366 JJN
Over recent decades, the doctrine has been stretched...response to the growth of working class opposition.

Qualified immunity’s focus on technicalities DISGUISES institutional racism and makes civil rights litigation about INDIVIDUAL CASES instead of structural problems and encourages acceptance of the status quo—we have to break down the illusion that our CJS allows for redress
Hassel
Diana Hassel 99, Associate Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law, “Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity,” Missouri Law Review Vol. 64, 1999.
The problem with qualified immunity is...should be protected and how.

The vagueness of what is reasonability confuses officers to not know the bright line of excessive force. Think of 4th amendment violations, this allows for police officers to be violent (and protected) in their dealings with the public.
Alpert and Smith ’94:
Alpert and Smith, 1994 ( Geoffrey P. Alpert William C. Smith. Professors at University of South Carolina. How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man: Police and Excessive Force. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume 85 Issue 2 Fall. http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6818andcontext=jclc)
The Commission Report discussed the need for scrutiny...review these reports at all.

Part 3 – Solvency
Current QI doctrine and the "clearly established" prong means officers are protected when they fail to act in responding to domestic violence cases. 4th amendment violations due to excessive force.
Wright ‘15
Sam Wright is a public interest lawyer who has spent his career exclusively in nonprofits and government. “Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity.” Above the Law. November 3, 2015. http://abovethelaw.com/2015/11/want-to-fight-police-misconduct-reform-qualified-immunity/?rf=1 JJN
As usual, I’ve not buried...been clearly established in the courts?

The plan fosters cooperation, which operates as a key check against police departments.
Stefan ‘16
Lindsey de Stefan - J.D. Candidate, 2017, Seton Hall University School of Law; B.A., Ramapo College of New Jersey. ““No Man Is Above the Law and No Man Is Below It:” How Qualified Immunity Reform Could Create Accountability and Curb Widespread Police Misconduct.” The date is claimed to be 2017… but that’s impossible. So it says it has had 360 downloads since July 26, 2016 which is when the article is most likely to have been assumed to be released on the website. Stetan Hall Law. http://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1861andcontext=student_scholarship JJN
VI. Amending Qualified...citizen police relationship.

The plan solves by eliminating uncertainty about what is "clearly established" by publishing opinions that clarify QI for police officers and also beginning to hear cases challenging immunity granted by lower courts. This is key to increasing accountability and serves as an immediate starting point for future reforms
Oliver 15
Oliver, Wesley. "Prohibition’s Lingering Shadow: Under-Regulation of Official Uses of Force." Http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4165andcontext=mlr. 2015.
Unnecessary police killings may be deterred...most investigative techniques

Underview

Beyond the plan-text, our aff forces a confrontation with invisibilized colonialism and the rhetorical strategies that prop up system of domination.
If the AC is a criticism of Western Thought, and there’s a Western Construct brought up, that means that the criticism of this construct is not inconsistent with the AFF (i.e. I do that, and I am the prerequisite). Even if race is key to my opponent’s argument, it’s not a reason why the AFF is bad.

Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Winston Churchill BR | Judge: Adegoke Fakorede
Adv.1
Majority of Countries that have Nuclear Power are Western Countries
International Atomic Energy Agency ‘16
Nuclear Power Reactors in the World. 36th ed. S.l.: Intl Atomic Energy Agency, 2016. Print. No.2.
The United States leads...9 under construction
The squo policy on Nuclear Power is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Eurocentric nature of neorealist and liberal approaches to nuclear proliferation perpetuate logics of colonial violence and inequity. This is a critical analysis through postcolonial paradigms.
Chung 14
Alex - graduated in 2013 with MA in International Relations from the University of New South Wales. He is currently under supervision of Prof John Rees @ University of Notre Dame Australia. “Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation” Conference Paper for the ISAC-ISSS Joint Annual Conference http://web.isanet.org/Web/Conferences/ISSS20Austin202014/Archive/253053b8-52cd-4251-8a5d-1dd0163cb460.pdf
Resistance to Northern domination...
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...the Islamic world, would be enormously dangerous.”
Denuclearization is a colonial imposition by Western states, asserting that all other countries are irrational and dangerous
Biswas 14
Biswas, Shampa. Prof of PoliSci @ Whitman, Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order. Minneapolis, US: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 8 August 2016.
How does this international...
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...who may be damaged from those pursuits?
Adv. 2 Empowerment
The global move to nuclear power puts developing countries at risk – there’s a double standard where only developed nations have the best safety standards
Schneider et al 11
Mycle – consultant and project coordinator, Antony Frogatt – consultant, Steve Thomas – prof of energy policy @ Greenwich University, “Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World 25 Years After the Chernobyl Accident” World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-11, http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/2011MSC-WorldNuclearReport-V3.pdf
The UAE project also raises...
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...designs may well prove short-lived.
Non-proliferation is enlightenment rationality, so it’s no surprise that non-nuclear states are told to denuclearize while Western states get to keep their arsenals
Biswas 14
Biswas, Shampa. Prof of PoliSci @ Whitman, Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order. Minneapolis, US: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 8 August 2016.
In one of the most celebratory defenses...
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...continues to be central in all of Walker’s writings.
Nuclear Programs are what Eastern Countries need to get to the bargaining table, or developing countries to develop
Pollack ‘06
Pollack, Kenneth M., “Bringing Iran to the Bargaining Table,” The Brookings Institution. November 2006.
KENNETH M. POLLACK is senior and director of research the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. His recent book is The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America (Random House, 2005).
Living with Enemies
Setting aside the question...
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...of the state in question.
Framework
The role of the ballot is to resist all forms of structural domination.

1. Epistemology: Ethical theorizing comes from the interaction of different ideas, but that can only occur meaningfully if we fix conditions that exclude particular voices.
   Medina:
   José Medina Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt "Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism", Foucault Studies No. 12 (2011), 9-35.
   Foucault invites us to pay attention to...
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   ...hegemonic practices have foreclosed.
   Structural violence limits whom they apply to on the basis of unjustifiable conceptual categories. We need to create systems and focus on strats to stop that and make our ethical categorizing meaningful.
   Winter and Leighton ‘99
   Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5)
   Finally, to recognize the operation...
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   ...also be used to empower citizens to reduce it.