Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Edgemont NS | Judge: Rahul Gosain
The black body has no place in civil society – their demands cannot be met. They are socially dead – antiblackness is constitutive to the society itself – antiblackness is not a consequence of some results happening, but it is something intrinsic to civil society. Don’t let him say that antiblackness doesn’t apply, it applies because this is seomthing that civil society is culpable for- it is an intrinsic value of them
Wilderson 03
Slavery is the great...t o the death.
Gratuitous violence done to the black body never ends – it is different from the contingent.
R. L. 13
Contrary to contingent ... subjecthood of blacks.
Any call for reform is the perfection of slavery – the demand for progress is when the slave accepts its dependence on the master. Relying on whiteness is the same as the slave owner who treats his slave with more care to keep them bounded more tightly. Thi sis why policymaking will never work.
Farley 05
Slavery is with...the field of law
Thus, the alternative is to embrace the demand of the slave - the end of all civil society.
Farley 05
What is to be done?... not a calling.
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.
Yancy 05
The multiple consciousness ... about law and theory.