Tournament: loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: king cp | Judge: sreyaash das
~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244~ JJ
We begin with the first author’s reflections on philosophy and its recurring problem of denying
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and build strategies against the present problems of racism in philosophy before us.
The 1AC’s spikes and technical obfuscation are the hoops that black scholarship has to jump through to even get on the playing field —- white psychosis responds to critique with an abstraction to the level of fair play —- this fair play is embedded with a safe fantasy zone in which whiteness has the collective power to set rules and norms
Wilderson 08 Frank B Wilderson III, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Drama at the UC, Irvine, Former Member of militarized wing of the ANC. "Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid" Originally published by South End Press, 2008. IB
Whereas Selma Thornton attempts an institutional analysis of the Student Senate by way of a
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as to tell us the very terms of our precious debates are specious."
Communication at its root involves a "community" which presumes an equitable relationship between the speaker and listener—blackness lacks the capacity to communicate itself because civil society obfuscates the processes of hearing, understanding, and responding to black voices. The issues of antiblackness will be bracketed out as always as per the 1AC.
Nicholas Brady 12, activist-scholar from Baltimore, Maryland. He is an executive board member of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a community-based think tank focused on empowering youth in the political process. Through the organization, he has helped to produce policy and critical intervention papers, organize efforts in Baltimore against the prison industrial complex, lead educational forums on a myriad of community-oriented projects, and use debate as a critical pedagogical tool to activate the voices of young people from ages 10 to 25. He is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and is currently a doctoral student in the University of California-Irvine Culture and Theory program. "Louder Than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering" October 11, 2012. IB
The shadow’s name is Anna Brown. She has also been named "the homeless
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lives, black life, matters until the final, paradigmatic quiet comes.
The role of debate and the alternative is to surrender to blackness—Chan Park lacks the jurisdiction to tell black people what to do.
Brady and Murillo 14 ~Nicholas and John, "Black Imperative: A Forum on Solidarity in the Age of Coalition," January 26, 2014, http://outofnowhereblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/black-imperative-a-forum-on-solidarity-in-the-age-of-coalition/, John Murillo III is a PhD student in the English department at Brown University, and a graduate of the University of California, Irvine, with bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and English. His research interests are broad, and include extensive engagements with and within: Black Studies–particularly Afro-Pessimism–Narrative Theory; Theoretical Physics; Astrophysics; Cosmology; and Neuroscience. Nicholas Brady is an activist-scholar from Baltimore, Maryland. He was also a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins with a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and currently a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine Culture and Theory program.~
"Surrender to blackness." A grammatical imperative. Grammatical because syntactically it marks a
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imperative. Instead of fetishizing the object, you must surrender to blackness.
The abject positionality of the slave produces a semiotics of meaning that renders the world and all other positionalities coherent. Redemption is reliant upon a conception of space and time defined in opposition to blackness.
Wilderson 18 - Frank B. Wilderson III, The Brotherwise Dispatch, Vol.3, Issue ~#3, June-August 2018, Afropessimism and the End of Redemption, http://brotherwisedispatch.blogspot.com/2018/06/afropessimism-and-end-of-redemption-by.html WJ
Afro-Pessimism is premised on an iconoclastic claim: that Blackness is coterminous with
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s/he is never an entity in the meta-narrative genealogy.