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Tournament: Black and Gold Classic | Round: Finals | Opponent: Little Rock MG | Judge: Gilbert, Valdez, Kieklak If you have questions about disclosure or would like to reach me before the round please email me at kennidi.jones25@gmail.com
10/9/21
Civil Disobedience - Hood Feminism v1
Tournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot SC | Judge: Aryan Gaddi Feminist narratives of the hood are tools to pathologize Black girls in the hood. Performative activism that forefronts white feminist narratives rely on the “white savior” to speak for the hood; this legitimizes patriarchy by ignoring the intersection of race and class. The world is not safe for young, Black femmes. Kendall, 20 Mikki Kendall (born October 23, 1976) is an author, activist, and cultural critic. Her work often focuses on current events, media representation, the politics of food, and the history of the feminist movement. Penguin Random House published her graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists in 2019, while her political nonfiction book Hood Feminism was released in early 2020. Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot, pg. 78-82 LM
Girls in the hood must learn to present only the … AND … boundary between safe and unsafe that can be drawn along color or class lines.
Their disposability extends to debate tournaments; high school LD uniquely excludes students of color. “Neutrality in arguments” ensures black debaters hate speech similar to what’s spoken at Klan rallies except it’s the halls and zoom rooms of debate tournaments. Smith, 13 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 4 September 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
At every tournament you attend this year look around the cafeteria and take … AND … will lose out on the ability to judge, coach, or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives.
Black Women are captive, suspended within the captivity that no amount of liberal discourse on bodies or subjective choice can free us from. Focusing on the unprotected and violated flesh of the Black Femme is the only starting point for politics. Debates about civil disobedience are useless without providing an analytic to understand black female suffering; that makes the aff a precondition for devising political strategies. Malaklou, 18 M. Shadee Malaklou is an Assistant Professor and Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies; Director of the Women’s and Gender Non-Conforming Center. Theory and Event, Volume 21, Number 1, January 2018, pp. 215-258 Kansas BD
If the inclusivity of liberal humanism-cum-… AND … grammar of this wor(l)d’s insatiably violent antiblack prose.
Vote affirmative to endorse epistemic disobedience in debate; this requires unlearning preconceived notions of the IP protections but also normative interps of debate. Amsler and Facer 17 Sarah Amsler Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham Keri Facer Graduate School of Education, Futures UniversityContesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future Volume 94, November 2017, Pages 6-14 Kansas KR
In the theories and practices made public by these projects, we find neither a desire to colonize the future through its algorithmic induction nor a resignation to abandoning it to power or chance, but pedagogies, curricula and modes of governance which are designed to enlarge spaces of possibility to participate in autonomous and common forms of life. Here there … AND … of interpretation or domesticating them with scientifically rationalities (Mandell, 2014).
Debate is a deliberative democracy that is tribal in nature; teams on the left, defend the oppressed and teams on the right want to debate “policy” or LARP. Only by refusing whiteness and forcing conversations about antiblackness IN DEBATE can we confront the racism that is rampant both sin the activity and America. Taylor, 19 Matthew Taylor is the chief executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in Britain, and the former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Tony Blair., The Economist, “How to fix democracy Citizen deliberation is the gateway to a better politics,” 11 March 2019, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/03/11/citizen-deliberation-is-the-gateway-to-a-better-politics Cgilbert
This is the second in a series of opinion pieces on how to fix … AND … showing that truly representative citizens have come to similar conclusions.
9/29/21
JanFeb - A Rock in a Sea of Blackness
Tournament: Woodward | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula KN | Judge: Andrew Halverson Private appropriation of space is undeniably tethered to the anti-Black violence that sustains life on Earth; the drive to colonize Mars is rooted in a fear of a planetary crisis of Earth being “inhospitable.” Said inhospitableness is a daily occurrence for Black folk. Normative debates about space appropriation have NO explanatory power for Black people because no matter what happens; anti-Black violence will exist and Whitey will be on the moon. McKinson, 20 Kimberley D. McKinson is a cultural anthropologist who conducts ethnographic research in Jamaica. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York (CUNY). McKinson’s research is situated at the intersections of urban security/insecurity, material culture, Caribbean postcoloniality, and critical Black historiography. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, the University of California Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design, and CUNY. McKinson is presently at work on her first book, Palimpsestic Securityscapes: Making Home and Excavating Memory in Postcolonial Jamaica. “Do Black Lives Matter in Outer Space?” 20 September 2020, https://www.sapiens.org/culture/space-colonization-racism/ XJones
Today, as a Black anthropologist living and working in New York City, my …
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… psyche, and resulted in the fever-like conditions of the 1960s civil rights era.
Some may say high school LD isn’t anti-Black because Zion Dixon (Strake) and Leah Yeshitila (Garland) are successful at what they do; this mystifies the struggles, troubles, and daily anti-Blackness they face. It papers over the anti-Blackness at TFA or the inability for them to have Black judges judge them, much if ever. This quickness to tokenize them is part and parcel of larger anti-Black structures that proliferate the activity writ large.
High school LD uniquely excludes students of color. “Neutrality in arguments” ensures black debaters hate speech similar to what’s spoken at Klan rallies except it’s the halls and zoom rooms of debate tournaments. Smith, 13 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 4 September 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
At every tournament you attend this year look around the cafeteria and take note of which students …
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… or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives.
Anti-blackness is a lit base that has been in debate for 12-15 years now. Let’s not get on the subject of k affs; after all these years the best that people can come up with is “procedural fairness,” which is a not-so-nice way of saying “don’t vote for the Black alien.”
In spite of it all we exist. Debaters like Q Robinson, a Black woman who won the NDT, and the team of Murphy/Nave who united the crown, both NDT and CEDA championships, are the ones who paved the way for the current generation. Now some of the best LD minds in the country exist of Black people like Eli Smith and Chris Randall; both Black men who excel at debate IN SPITE OF the anti-blackness that permeates it.
Black life has always existed both underground and in outer space; always seen as the outsider or proverbial alien. Modes of black resistance have been used time and time again to revel in Blackness in spite of anti-black violence. What comes of the Black debater when they exist outside of the question posed by the resolution?!?!? Davies, 21 Elizabeth Jordie Davies is a doctoral student in Political Science and Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow at the University of Chicago. Her research interests lie at the intersection of race studies and American political behaviour, focusing on progressive and racial justice movement activism, Black politics and social movements, participation, communication, political attitudes, and new media. “After Afropessimism,” 31 May 2021, Ideology Theory Practice, https://www.ideology-theory-practice.org/blog/after-afropessimism Cgilbert
While Afropessimism offers an intellectual path away from this world, it does … AND …as Cohen discusses in her essay, “Deviance as Resistance.”16
We love debate, the research, the skills, but we hate how it treats us. We come here for refuge from our daily lives for a moment of escape. We love the activity; instead of leaving we offer another method. I control the uniqueness question so it’s only a question of what do we do in the face of anti-blackness?
Vote aff to endorse a method of disidentification to resolve the psychological violence that occurs in LD debate. Black intellectuals and the academy have always been seen as mutually exclusive. Disidentification allows the judge to transform the “master’s tools” and recode them for new meanings. Biswas, 20 Debarati Biswas holds a PhD in English and Africana studies from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She teaches in the English department at Hunter College, CUNY. She is currently completing her book manuscript, “Brother Outsider: The Aesthetics of Elsewheres and Be/longing in African American Men’s Literature.” “HOW TO SUBVERT THE CAPITALIST WHITE-SUPREMACIST UNIVERSITY,” 21 May 2020, https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-subvert-the-capitalist-white-supremacist-university/ Cgilbert
Lavelle Porter’s The Blackademic Life arrives at an important moment in American history…
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… refusal to reproduce the racist and capitalist logic of the university.
Imagine being told in your in-state circuit that your arguments are too difficult or make people “uncomfortable.” Imagine your COACH being told by coaches on your home circuit that your aff boils down to “vote for me because I’m Black.” You don’t have to imagine it because it’s MY lived reality. Instead, we should transform fiat to one based in Black revolutionary thought; only then will we provide TRUE refuge for the Blackademic.
Recoding the “master’s tools” begins with our interpretation of fiat; Black people have ALWAYS used their imaginations to escape this anti-Black world. Voting aff endorses a form of Black fiat that preserves the radicalism of Black revolutionaries while reminding us we exist in a big Black universe. Johnson, 19 Myles E. Johnson is a writer, editor and culture critic based out of Brooklyn, New York. He cares about all the places pop culture, politics, black feminism, and queer theory meet. Johnson is the author of acclaimed children’s book, Large Fears. Johnson’s work has been featured in New York Times, NPR, NBC, OUT magazine, Advocate magazine, Bitch Media and more. He is currently the social media editor at The FADER magazine, weekly columnist at Okayplayer, and blog editor at Philadelphia Printworks. He can be found on twitter (@HAUSMUVA) and all of his published work is available hausmuva.com. “BLACK UTOPIA: RECLAIMING OUTER SPACE,” 11 April 2019, https://afropunk.com/2019/04/black-utopia-reclaiming-outer-space/ Cgilbert
The Disney theme song, “It’s A Small World (After All)” …
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…radicalism to remember that this is a big black ass universe after all.
3/18/22
JanFeb - Blackness as Alien
Tournament: Houston Cougar Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Midlothian AC | Judge: Arun Mehra See open source
1/15/22
NovDec - Black Worker Pathologization v1
Tournament: The Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hector G Godinez Fundamental KN | Judge: Albert Cardenas Time and time again LD resolutions are chosen without any attempt to take into account the ways in which Black flesh both sustains civil society and is exterminated by civil society. Debates about unconditional worker strikes do nothing to question why strikes have happened BECAUSE of employment of Black folx. We can debate about access to the unconditional right to strike but no one will question how this has been used insidiously towards Black folx.
What about the Black worker? What about the Black union member who feels like leadership doesn’t represent them?
The unconditional right to strike has ALWAYS come at the expense of Black people; Supreme Court doctrine and strikes post Reconstruction all prove the insidious ways strike negative affect Blacks. Cassedy, 97 James Gilbert Cassedy is a contributing historian to the National Archives. “African Americans and the American Labor Movement,” Summer 1997, Federal Records and African American History Volume 29, Number 2, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/american-labor-movement.html Cgilbert
The formation of American trade unions increased during … AND … of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, is found in the Records of the National Mediation Board (RG 13).8
Where have all the Black judges gone? Why aren’t they judging deep outrounds of big tournaments? Why is it SO much harder for Black students to justify why their “style” of argumentation is valid and should be accepted practice in the community? The same reason the Black union member can’t get adequate representation; anti-Blackness permeates both the topic AND the debate space.
Black disposability exists in debate; high school LD uniquely excludes students of color. “Neutrality in arguments” ensures black debaters hate speech similar to what’s spoken at Klan rallies except it’s the halls and zoom rooms of debate tournaments. Smith, 13 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 4 September 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
At every tournament you attend this year look around the cafeteria and take … AND … , or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives.
It’s not just “out of round” it’s also in rounds. Anti-blackness is a lit base that has been in debate for 12-15 years now. There should be more engagement with affs than procedurals. Instead, all of our rounds are framework debates.
Black death exists all around us in debate culture. Black coaches are few and far between, often times tokenized locally. Black students are told if you “just did ” or “just made that ONE argument” they would have won. People love hearing Black scholarship but hate voting for Black people reading it.
Black death is the premium that ensures white humanity—putting faith in institutional reformism is a dream narrative that legitimizes broader health crises for black people—state sanctioned violence is a constant threat to the existence of blackness Sharpe 2016 – Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University (In the Wake: On Blackness and Being pp 213-218) bhb
Again, when NourbeSe Philip asks in the Notanda to Zong! “What is the word … AND …additional forms of wake work as a praxis for imagining, arrive in the registers of Black annotation and Black redaction.
Worker strikes and current debate topics have NO explanatory power for Black people. We love debate, the research, the skills, but we hate how it treats us. We come here for refuge from our daily lives for a moment of escape. We love the activity; instead of leaving we offer another method.
Vote affirmative to endorse epistemic disobedience in debate; this requires unlearning preconceived notions of the IP protections but also normative interps of debate. Amsler and Facer 17 Sarah Amsler Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham Keri Facer Graduate School of Education, Futures UniversityContesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future Volume 94, November 2017, Pages 6-14 Kansas KR
In the theories and practices made public by these projects, we find … AND … interpretation or domesticating them with scientifically rationalities (Mandell, 2014).
Psychological violence is inevitable in debate for Black folks; it’s only a question of WHAT do we do in the face of it? Since we won’t leave debate we will work IN debate.
Debate has become too insular and full of itself; only concerned with white sensibilities while protecting power and privilege in the community. Judges, and debaters alike, must change their relationship to arguments and their opponents; focusing on normative interps crowds out discussions about privilege and power. Students should be allowed to kritik debate because the things we discuss inherently AFFECT debate; disregard “dropped arguments” if we win our top-level framing. Smith, 14 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “DEVELOPING OUR ENVIRONMENT: PLANTING THE SEEDS FOR THE ACTIVIST MODEL,” 30 January 2014, http://victory-briefs.squarespace.com/vbd/2014/1/developing-our-environment-planting-the-seeds-for-the-activist-model Cgilbert
Despite popular opinion, I think you should be rooted in the topic … AND … on behalf of those who cannot advocate for themselves.
11/20/21
NovDec - Black Worker Pathologization v2
Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: LC Anderson AS | Judge: Austin Koort Time and time again LD resolutions are chosen without any attempt to take into account the ways in which Black flesh both sustains civil society and is exterminated by civil society. Debates about unconditional worker strikes do nothing to question why strikes have happened BECAUSE of employment of Black folx. We can debate about access to the unconditional right to strike but no one will question how this has been used insidiously towards Black folx.
What about the Black worker? What about the Black union member who feels like leadership doesn’t represent them?
The unconditional right to strike has ALWAYS come at the expense of Black people; Supreme Court doctrine and strikes post Reconstruction all prove the insidious ways strike negative affect Blacks. Cassedy, 97 James Gilbert Cassedy is a contributing historian to the National Archives. “African Americans and the American Labor Movement,” Summer 1997, Federal Records and African American History Volume 29, Number 2, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/american-labor-movement.html Cgilbert
The formation of American trade unions increased during … AND … of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, is found in the Records of the National Mediation Board (RG 13).8
Where have all the Black judges gone? Why aren’t they judging deep outrounds of big tournaments? Why is it SO much harder for Black students to justify why their “style” of argumentation is valid and should be accepted practice in the community? The same reason the Black union member can’t get adequate representation; anti-Blackness permeates both the topic AND the debate space.
Black disposability exists in debate; high school LD uniquely excludes students of color. “Neutrality in arguments” ensures black debaters hate speech similar to what’s spoken at Klan rallies except it’s the halls and zoom rooms of debate tournaments. Smith, 13 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 4 September 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
At every tournament you attend this year look around the cafeteria and take … AND … , or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives.
It’s not just “out of round” it’s also in rounds. Anti-blackness is a lit base that has been in debate for 12-15 years now. There should be more engagement with affs than procedurals. Instead, all of our rounds are framework debates.
Black death exists all around us in debate culture. Black coaches are few and far between, often times tokenized locally. Black students are told if you “just did ” or “just made that ONE argument” they would have won. People love hearing Black scholarship but hate voting for Black people reading it.
Black death is the premium that ensures white humanity—putting faith in institutional reformism is a dream narrative that legitimizes broader health crises for black people—state sanctioned violence is a constant threat to the existence of blackness Sharpe 2016 – Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University (In the Wake: On Blackness and Being pp 213-218) bhb
Again, when NourbeSe Philip asks in the Notanda to Zong! “What is the word … AND …additional forms of wake work as a praxis for imagining, arrive in the registers of Black annotation and Black redaction.
Worker strikes and current debate topics have NO explanatory power for Black people. We love debate, the research, the skills, but we hate how it treats us. We come here for refuge from our daily lives for a moment of escape. We love the activity; instead of leaving we offer another method.
Vote affirmative to endorse epistemic disobedience in debate; this requires unlearning preconceived notions of the IP protections but also normative interps of debate. Amsler and Facer 17 Sarah Amsler Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham Keri Facer Graduate School of Education, Futures UniversityContesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future Volume 94, November 2017, Pages 6-14 Kansas KR
In the theories and practices made public by these projects, we find … AND … interpretation or domesticating them with scientifically rationalities (Mandell, 2014).
Psychological violence is inevitable in debate for Black folks; it’s only a question of WHAT do we do in the face of it? Since we won’t leave debate we will work IN debate.
Debate has become too insular and full of itself; only concerned with white sensibilities while protecting power and privilege in the community. Judges, and debaters alike, must change their relationship to arguments and their opponents; focusing on normative interps crowds out discussions about privilege and power. Students should be allowed to kritik debate because the things we discuss inherently AFFECT debate; disregard “dropped arguments” if we win our top-level framing. Smith, 14 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “DEVELOPING OUR ENVIRONMENT: PLANTING THE SEEDS FOR THE ACTIVIST MODEL,” 30 January 2014, http://victory-briefs.squarespace.com/vbd/2014/1/developing-our-environment-planting-the-seeds-for-the-activist-model Cgilbert
Despite popular opinion, I think you should be rooted in the topic … AND … on behalf of those who cannot advocate for themselves.
Disclosure practices and disclosure theory are transphobic tools that recreate gender-based oppression in LD. Preferring procedural fairness over structural fairness creates a chilling effect that negatively impacts the community writ large. Blake, 19 Sophie Blake is a trans LD debater from a small school who loves teaching and giving younger debaters access to opportunities, and coaches several small school or independent debaters. Sophie values the scholastic value of debate and encourages debaters to become authors and methodological activists both inside and outside of debate rounds. Sophie emphasizes diverse and creative argumentation, and an increased communal prioritization and student awareness of the implications of community practices then the competitive nature of debate as an activity. Don’t hesitate to reach out to Sophie if you have questions about debate or need a friend in the debate community. “Fighting for a Place in the Room by Sophie Blake,” 16 October 2019, https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/10/16/fighting-for-a-place-in-the-room-by-sophie-blake/ Cgilbert
Conventional debate is fundamentally hierarchical… AND … problematic actions or actors within the community.
12/4/21
SeptOct - Pathologized Disobedience
Tournament: UK Season Opener | Round: 1 | Opponent: Woodrow Wilson DT | Judge: Ki Radcliffe Centering debates about IP reductions for medicine without interrogating the pathologization that makes Black flesh disposable in medical experimentation, the global police state, and health discussion writ large. IP protections are directly attributable to the racial status quo. Patz, 21 Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. “DISPOSABLE LIVES: COVID-19, VACCINES, AND THE UPRISING,” Columbia Law Review Forum, 1 June 2021, Volume 121, pg. 71-94, https://www.columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Sirleaf-Disposable_Lives-Covid-19_Vaccines_And_The_Uprising.pdf Cgilbert
Two French doctors appeared on television … AND … status quo in these areas and beyond.
This disposability extends to debate tournaments; high school LD uniquely excludes students of color. “Neutrality in arguments” ensures black debaters hate speech similar to what’s spoken at Klan rallies except it’s the halls and zoom rooms of debate tournaments. Smith, 13 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 4 September 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
At every tournament you attend this year look around the cafeteria and take … AND … , or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives.
Black death is the premium that ensures white humanity—putting faith in institutional reformism is a dream narrative that legitimizes broader health crises for black people—state sanctioned violence is a constant threat to the existence of blackness Sharpe 2016 – Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University (In the Wake: On Blackness and Being pp 213-218) bhb
Again, when NourbeSe Philip asks in the Notanda to Zong! “What is the word … AND …additional forms of wake work as a praxis for imagining, arrive in the registers of Black annotation and Black redaction.
Vote affirmative to endorse epistemic disobedience in debate; this requires unlearning preconceived notions of the IP protections but also normative interps of debate. Amsler and Facer 17 Sarah Amsler Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham Keri Facer Graduate School of Education, Futures UniversityContesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future Volume 94, November 2017, Pages 6-14 Kansas KR
In the theories and practices made public by these projects, we find … AND … interpretation or domesticating them with scientifically rationalities (Mandell, 2014).
Debate is a deliberative democracy that is tribal in nature; teams on the left, defend the oppressed and teams on the right want to debate “policy” or LARP. Only by refusing whiteness and forcing conversations about antiblackness IN DEBATE can we confront the racism that is rampant both sin the activity and America. Taylor, 19 Matthew Taylor is the chief executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in Britain, and the former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Tony Blair., The Economist, “How to fix democracy Citizen deliberation is the gateway to a better politics,” 11 March 2019, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/03/11/citizen-deliberation-is-the-gateway-to-a-better-politics Cgilbert
This is the second in a series of opinion pieces on how to fix … AND … that truly representative citizens have come to similar conclusions.
9/11/21
SeptOct - Pathologized Disobedience v2
Tournament: JW Patterson Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake MT | Judge: John Sims Time and time again LD resolutions are chosen without any attempt to take into account the ways in which Black flesh both sustains civil society and is exterminated by civil society. Debates about IP do nothing to question why Henrietta Lacks’ cells were taken from her and multiplied for medical research. We can debate about access to the COVID vaccine but no one will give Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, a BLACK WOMAN, her due in being integral to the creation of the COVID vaccine.
Centering debates about IP reductions for medicine without interrogating the pathologization that makes Black flesh disposable in medical experimentation, the global police state, and health discussion writ large. IP protections are directly attributable to the racial status quo. Patz, 21 Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. “DISPOSABLE LIVES: COVID-19, VACCINES, AND THE UPRISING,” Columbia Law Review Forum, 1 June 2021, Volume 121, pg. 71-94, https://www.columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Sirleaf-Disposable_Lives-Covid-19_Vaccines_And_The_Uprising.pdf Cgilbert
Two French doctors appeared on television … AND … status quo in these areas and beyond.
Where have all the Black judges gone? Why aren’t they judging deep outrounds of big tournaments? Why is it SO much harder for Black students to justify why their “style” of argumentation is valid and should be accepted practice in the community?
This disposability extends to debate tournaments; high school LD uniquely excludes students of color. “Neutrality in arguments” ensures black debaters hate speech similar to what’s spoken at Klan rallies except it’s the halls and zoom rooms of debate tournaments. Smith, 13 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 4 September 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
At every tournament you attend this year look around the cafeteria and take … AND … , or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives.
It’s not just “out of round” it’s also in rounds. Anti-blackness is a lit base that has been in debate for 12-15 years now. There should be more engagement with affs than procedurals. Instead, all of our rounds are framework debates.
Black death exists all around us in debate culture. Black coaches are few and far between, often times tokenized locally. Black students are told if you “just did ” or “just made that ONE argument” they would have won. People love hearing Black scholarship but hate voting for Black people reading it.
Black death is the premium that ensures white humanity—putting faith in institutional reformism is a dream narrative that legitimizes broader health crises for black people—state sanctioned violence is a constant threat to the existence of blackness Sharpe 2016 – Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University (In the Wake: On Blackness and Being pp 213-218) bhb
Again, when NourbeSe Philip asks in the Notanda to Zong! “What is the word … AND …additional forms of wake work as a praxis for imagining, arrive in the registers of Black annotation and Black redaction.
WTO, IP protections, and current debate topics have NO explanatory power for Black people. We love debate, the research, the skills, but we hate how it treats us. We come here for refuge from our daily lives for a moment of escape. We love the activity; instead of leaving we offer another method.
Vote affirmative to endorse epistemic disobedience in debate; this requires unlearning preconceived notions of the IP protections but also normative interps of debate. Amsler and Facer 17 Sarah Amsler Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham Keri Facer Graduate School of Education, Futures UniversityContesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future Volume 94, November 2017, Pages 6-14 Kansas KR
In the theories and practices made public by these projects, we find … AND … interpretation or domesticating them with scientifically rationalities (Mandell, 2014).
Psychological violence is inevitable in debate for Black folks; it’s only a question of WHAT do we do in the face of it? Since we won’t leave debate we will work IN debate.
Debate has become too insular and full of itself; only concerned with white sensibilities while protecting power and privilege in the community. Judges, and debaters alike, must change their relationship to arguments and their opponents; focusing on normative interps crowds out discussions about privilege and power. Students should be allowed to kritik debate because the things we discuss inherently AFFECT debate; disregard “dropped arguments” if we win our top-level framing. Smith, 14 Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “DEVELOPING OUR ENVIRONMENT: PLANTING THE SEEDS FOR THE ACTIVIST MODEL,” 30 January 2014, http://victory-briefs.squarespace.com/vbd/2014/1/developing-our-environment-planting-the-seeds-for-the-activist-model Cgilbert
Despite popular opinion, I think you should be rooted in the topic … AND … on behalf of those who cannot advocate for themselves.