Tournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cabot SC | Judge: Raga Mandali
The aff engages in a kind of performative activism that is racial gaslighting. The 1ac is an instance of avoiding uncomfortable conversations about race which prevents accountability. They may call this a link of omission but the inability to directly confront racism short circuits any risk of solvency. Kelley, 20
McKenna Kelley is a New York City born and raised performer, writer, and creative with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater. McKenna believes that sharing stories is what connects us all and aims to create art that inspires vulnerability and change. “Performative Activism is Basically Silence. Here’s Why.” 15 June 2020, https://swaay.com/performative-activism-silence-protest-allyship Cgilbert
Going with the flow when it comes to activism …
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…right for the part of an ally in the first place.
State action and institutional ethics makes anti-blackness worse - erases the exploitation of the black body
Wilderson, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Strucure of U.S. Antagonisms, Pg 15-16)
Regarding the Black position, some might ask why, …
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… split occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer.
The world writ large and civil society are preconditioned on the destruction of the black positionality
Wilderson, 3 Professor UCI, 2003 (Frank B., “The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal”, Soc Justice 30 no2 2003
There is something organic to black positionality that makes …
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… or Black civic obligation, are oxymorons.
Addressing Anti-Blackness is a prioirity – scandalizes ethicality and sets the stage for all violence
Wilderson, 10 award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Chapter One: The Ruse of Analogy” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,) GG
Two tensions are at work here. One operates under the labor …
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… man” (110) or, more precisely, in the eyes of Humanity
The alternative is to reject the affirmative and reorient ourselves towards the world through an unflinching paradigmatic analysis
Wilderson 10 Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages ix-x, OG *
STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South Africa. During the last years of apartheid …
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…. solidarity and appreciation to comrades Amanda Alexander, Franco Barchiesi, Teresa Barnes, Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, Nigel Gibson, Steven Greenberg, Allan Horowitz, Bushy Kelebonye (deceased), Tefu Kelebonye, Ulrike Kistner, Kamogelo Lekubu, Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu