Tournament: CAL | Round: Semis | Opponent: UCO | Judge: PAnel
Narrative about black motherhood, children and violence.
The focal point should be on how persons become disposable- the rapeability and killablity bases imposed upon us make violence and extermination inevitable.
Maldonado-Torres 08 (Nelson, assoc. prof Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 216-221)
We must be able to affirm ourselves, name ourselves, and create for ourselves in order to live in a way to avoid the pitfalls of nihilism and risk of black annihilation (together)
West 1993 (Cornel, "The Nihilistic Threat To Black America The Major Enemy Of Black Survival In America Is Neither Oppression Nor Exploitation But Rather The Loss Of Hope And Absence Of Meaning.")
Our methodology creates one of the best possibilities to empower and motivate three individual advantages
- Political resistance to current business as usual political
2. The exportation of a love ethic that is able to transcend the barriers of oppression and inspire a love of self, others, and community
3. Educational possibilities that are able to transgress static notions of education found in this resolution.
It is to move away from the modes of education that teach us we have to use all of the masters tools to be successful. It is to move away from the modes of education that teach us the personal is not political.
The personal experience of black women is already political.
Harris-Perry 2011 (Sister Citizen)
A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women’s culture, women’s emotional flexibility (values tears as natural counterbalance of laughter), and women’s strength. Sometimes loves individual men, sexually and/or nonsexually. Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. Not a separatist, except periodically, for health.
Jain and Turner, 2012 ( Dimpal Jain University of the Pacific, Caroline Turner, California State University Sacramento. " Purple is to Lavender: Womanism, Resistance, and the Politics of Naming." The Negro Educational Review. Vols. 62 and 63, Nos. 1-4, 2011 and 2012 )
Womanist mothering has 3 tenets that fuels a revolution for the existing children
Abdullah, 12 (Melina Abdullah 2012 “Womanist Mothering: Loving and Raising the Revolution” The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2012 is Acting Chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies and the Chapter President of the California Faculty Association (the faculty union) at California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Abdullah earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Political Science and her B.A. from Howard University in African American Studies)
Our Framework: Who best performs their political agency in route to the creation of emotional consciousness in debate.
Advocacy: We affirm womanist emotional consciousness to discuss the wars affecting Black Mothers.
Lorde, 85 ( Audre Lorde , the African-American poet and memoirist who wrote From a Land Where Other People Live and The Cancer Journals attended Hunter College and Columbia University and was a librarian for several years before publishing her first volume of poetry, First Cities, in 1968. More successful collections followed “Poetry is not a luxury,” 1985)
