Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: someone | Judge: someone
Give me your tired, your poor,
…
In the words of Emma Lazarus

Part 1: We Have Company
Welcome Home, you can have seat or stand if you please…. Oh you’re already sitting. So tell me how was your trip, actually hold off on that let me grab you a bite to eat. Tea or coffee, orange juice, apple juice or water maybe? Which do you prefer? Meat or Veggie I promise it won’t cost you anything, speaker point that is. Hmmm I’m so happy that you made it home.

Theano S. Terkenli Jul., 1995 (Home as a Region: Geographical Review , Vol. 85, No. 3), pp. 324-334  Published by: American Geographical Society Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/215276 Pg25-26)

Humans occupy space and use symbols to transform it into place; they are creatures of habit who appropriate place and context as home. … The sense of personalization of the immediate environment is expressed as some measure of control or identification that transforms place into home.

So I ask to you is this home, is this household we call debate complete, do we consider each other family, is all our knickknacks the same, or are we living in the same community and for some they have to create their own performance of home and have to wait for a hand me down or a seat at the table is this my Amerika or is my liberatory performance got you singing: “there’s a stranger in my house” 

The Olsens’ posh three-bedroom home across the railroad tracks was¶ filled with “things” that I was forbidden to touch. ….Therefore, I could¶ easily counter my teachers’ suggestion that Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 16” is the¶ pinnacle of literature by reciting Countee Cullen’s “Yet Do I Marvel.” Had¶ not Mrs. Flossie Saddler, Mrs. Z. Ann Hoyle, and Mrs. Catherine Tucker—¶ the women in my community who were black literary oracles—provided me¶ with this “special knowledge,” the trajectory of my educational career might¶ have been drastically different.
I, Too
I, too, sing America.
….I, too, am America.
Langston Hughes

Thus Alando and I invite you to our table. We affirm the making of this house into a home.  The resolution poses a unique concern of security in relation to the homeland and the concept of war powers but the topic paper like the debate community and Murica has yet again pushed us into the kitchen they have level the discussion of domestic violence in the house we must share to private matters that can’t be talk about until we get “HOME”

Part 2 We need to Talk

Yo I’ve been wondering how we can make this place more homely. See I was thinking we can hang some new curtains, some more pictures on da walls, maybe rearrange the furniture, we could even plant some trees outside. I guess that would be cool as long as it don’t bear any strange fruit, what about a smart TV and a pool in the backyard I enjoy a good swim….. we’ll talk about it. Have you seen the picture of Obama? …… Speaking of Obeezy/Obama, I’ve heard that the united states federal government it thinking about limiting his war powers like through the courts or some law, specifically when it comes to like targeted killing like drone strike; indefinite detention Gitmo my ninja; offensive cyber operations like internet surveillance; or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities like he trying to get into Syria. When I think about it, that would make home so much more secure.   
James et al 2007, (Joy , Warfare in the American Homeland : Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, Durham and London, Duke University Press, , 351 pp. , ISBN 978 08223 3923 6.)

Those who surivival add liberation…

The resolution as a starting point of our conversation treats us as guest it excludes the voices of the marginalized. Our speech act allow us posits us at the dinner table any attempt to exclude or silence us is a violent act constituting war.
Middleton 2012, (Kianna Marie, Colorado State University. “I FEEL, THEREFORE I CAN BE FREE”: BLACK WOMEN AND CHICANA QUEER NARRATIVES AS DIFFERENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND FOUNDATIONAL THEORY) pgs  
For example, the academic position from which some of us have the possibility to speak ¶ makes everything we produce extremely important because we are the select few voices in ¶ academia (and in publishing, for example) that will be heard by mass amounts of people.  Reina ¶ Lewis in The Death of the Author and the Resurrection of the Dyke (1992) writes that lesbian ¶ criticism is a project of re-discovery (p. 17) therefore this too is a project of rediscovery, of ¶ situating contemporary Black and Chicana lesbian literature in a position of not only visibility ¶ but in a position to be critically listened to. 

Wilderson 11 (Frank B, Professor of African-American Studies/Drama at UC Irvine, “The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents”, (De) Fatalizing the Present and Creating Radical Alternative Journals Issue 5.0, C.A.)  
Ritual murders which purge White aggressivity subtend Bukhari’s impeded mourning and my dissembling scholarship, despite the fact that the filial cleansing and affilial stability proffered by the Black image’s intrusion as a phobic object does not cut both ways…. Whereas the phobic bond is an injunction against Black psychic integration and Black filial and affilial relations, it is the life blood of White psychic integration and filial (which is to say domestic) and affilial (or institutional) relations.