Tournament: Fullerton | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Rutgers-Newark Randall-Smith | Judge: Zagorin, Albiniak, Kennedy
Whiteness always risks ambush - Whiteness is a 'productive' ignorance that exists even in anti-racist whites - it is a wound to the soul one can't avoid
Yancy 8
George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. 'Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance". Black Bodies/White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, 2008. Lanham, MO: Rowman and Littlefield.

Denying the racism of white bodies is an erasure of the experience of people of color. This form of bad faith prevents empathy towards the other and blocks hearing.
Yancy 8
George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. 'Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance". Black Bodies/White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, 2008. Lanham, MO: Rowman and Littlefield.

Existential Coversion exposes the cracks and fissures within whiteness, this form of freedom destabilizes whiteness.
Yancy 8
George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. 'Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance". Black Bodies/White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, 2008. Lanham, MO: Rowman and Littlefield.

We can never really solve - Remaining implicated in white supremacy is key to anti-racist action and preventing reification of race.
Ahmed 4
Sara Ahmed, Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and the Associate Editor of International Journal of Cultural Studies. "Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism". Borderlands, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004.

The suppression of anti--racist white activism allows white supremacy to remain intact - the only option is to remain constantly implicated within whiteness.
Nichol 4
Sally Nolan Mach Nichol. Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: White People on What We Need to Do. 2004. Ed Harvey, Case and Gorsline.

Tournament: Cedanats | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liberty Apthorp-Bridwell | Judge: Kennedy
There’s nothing that runs through the motif of my life like red and white. Ironically, it’s only now that I realize that crimson and crème runs deeper than going to OU, but it runs through my veins like the Red River runs through the land to delineate Oklahoma and Texas from each other, like my body is divided into 1/32nd, legally 1/64th, the rest a fraction of being of that which is not red. The Indian Territory of my body relegated to a foot and ankle or the right part of my brain that is in constant grappling with the logical, analytical part of me that aims to crush difference and creativity and emotion and preach the tenants of Western thought that pits who I am against who I am against who I am not. 

Trudell in 99 -(John, American author, poet, actor, musician, and former political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. “We All Come From Tribes”. 1999. http://warmcove.org/ohloneprofiles/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/We_All_Come_From_Tribes.htm )
We are talking about dimensional … then it is easy to do it to the people.
My grandmother told me, in my childhood, as she studied to re-find a past that had been foreclosed to her, and to us, the children of her children and the children before her, by the white world making that shaped hands into productive tools to harness and destroy and assimilate and conquer, that my the closest word my name translates to in Choctaw is “dirt.”
I was slightly mad that I didn’t get a more feminine meaning applied to my being, but I realize that dirt is the foundation of life, where creation is fostered, and growth is catalyzed, and even though my grandmother is gone and her home painted white, even though she said she would be in Heaven, I think she and I both thought that heaven is a return to the soil that makes up our bodies. Working in conjunction with rain and sun and sky, plants and people and animals grow from the Earth, and taken away by the Earth, leaving tornado-pocked land where people live in fear and in comfort of the destruction and majesty of the Mother that ultimately controls our fate. 

John Trudell in 1997 (at the Judi Bari memorial fundraiser at MLK jr High School in Berkeley, CA, April 26, 1997)
And because we are made up of the …carrier of the disease, the human being.

Resolved: Stormee and I advocate that war powers should not be waged against identity.

“Who would ever choose to live in Oklahoma?”
No one chooses to live here, we are born and raised and relegated and relocated to this land. A plot of desolation and unworthiness of civilization and the Red People and the histories of assimilation and genocide and forced breeding that shape my identity. I would lay claim to this land as mine, but to say that would imply that I own this place, but the truth is, the land owns me. 

John Trudell in 2008 (Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future.
2008. Pp 321-322)
But the subtleties of this is when we take certain … Spiritual is about taking responsibility.

Attempting to reclaim the red bits of me from colonialism and histories of erasure but not feeling like I can because my skin is white, and I wasn’t raised on a reservation, I haven’t been called slurs, and am I even having this thought that makes me question because of the settling that washed across land and peoples to make white the way I live and breathe and see and understand and know.
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1AC (4/6)

Trudell 99 (John, American author, poet, actor, musician, and former political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. “We All Come From Tribes”. 1999. http://warmcove.org/ohloneprofiles/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/We_All_Come_From_Tribes.htm )
So, anyway about 1100 AD …So it was about possession.
I don’t know Choctaw, I can’t speak Choctaw, but I am an embodiment of native spacial feminist poetic politics, a walking contradiction being torn apart by a history I did and did not have any part in, a whirlwind of dirt and force and anxiousness and rage and serenity to be found in the spaces where my native identity clashes with my whiteness, forever in opposition, forever in synergy.

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1AC (5/7)
John Trudell in 8 (Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future.
2008. Pp. 319.)
I looked at the language …traumas.

Who am I if not myself, and myself is where I am, where I live, where I have grown, and those who have fostered those growth. When my mother cries because my grandmother is gone, I wipe her tears, knowing that such pain is temporary, and I think that I carry the memories and emotions and history we experience in my conscience, in the name my mother and my grandmother and I share, in the jewelry we have all worn at one time or another. 

?
1AC (6/7)
John Trudell in 99 (John, American author, poet, actor, musician, and former political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. “We All Come From Tribes”. 1999. http://warmcove.org/ohloneprofiles/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/We_All_Come_From_Tribes.htm )
We have a genetic memory…They didn't know anymore.
Terror isn’t what I know anymore. We are everywhere in this land. People will say that everyone is part native in Oklahoma, but I think there’s truth to be found in humor that recalls a legacy of lost knowledge and people and memories attached to the backs of women that carry red children, and me, across the ocean of the Great Plains to home. 

John Trudell in 1980 (“We are Power”. 18 July 1980. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/trudellwearepower.html)

When I go around America …We have that connection.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kansas MN | Judge: Chris Loghry
Contention One: The Gendered Epistemology of Security—

The President is the masculine protector wielding his unlimited authority to intervene by employing overt militarism with a benign face to conceal structural violence. 

Young 03
(IRIS MARION YOUNG, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and University of Chicago Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights. “Feminist Reactions to the Contemporary Security Regime.” Hypatia, Vol. 18, No. 1, Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (Winter, 2003), pp. 223-231. JSTOR.)

The President’s unlimited use of force and intervention in the War on Terror is founded on an ‘imperial protector’ understanding of Just War Theory.

Denike 08
(Margaret Denike, associate Professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science at Dalhouse University, Spring 2008, “The Human Rights of Others: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and "Just Causes" for the "War on Terror"”, Hypatia, Volume 23, Number 2, pg. 111-113) lrm
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Thus, Leigha and I advocate that the USFG should substantially increase statutory and judicial restrictions on the wars powers authority of the President of the United States in the following area: introducting United States Armed Forces into hostilities, by an application of feminist just war theory evaluated through a feminist security lens.

Contention Two: Feminist Just War Theory

Feminist security corrects the flawed epistemology of realism. We expose the naturalness of structural violence that exists during war and peace.

Blanchard 03
(Eric M. Blanchard, (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2009) is an American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellow and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, “Gender, International Relations, and the Development of Feminist Security Theory.” Signs, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Summer 2003), pp. 1289-1312. JSTOR.)
Our feminist interrogation into the gendered subjectivities of security disrupts the binary between war and peace— This restrains militarism through more effective peacemaking as well as war fighting.
Blanchard 03
(Eric M. Blanchard, (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2009) is an American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellow and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, “Gender, International Relations, and the Development of Feminist Security Theory.” Signs, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Summer 2003), pp. 1289-1312. JSTOR.)
 

Feminist Just War Theory provides a dialogue-based framework for the ethical evaluation of when we go to war, and how it is conducted— This is the only method that can restrain militarism while allowing intervention to prevent genocide.
Crawford 03
(Neta C. Crawford, associate professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Just War Theory and the U.S. Counterterror War.” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 5-25. JSTOR.)

Feminist Just War Theory provides a framework for real security—It balances the real need for security with a method for constraining militarist war.

Crawford 03
(Neta C. Crawford, associate professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Just War Theory and the U.S. Counterterror War.” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 5-25. JSTOR.)

Feminist Just War Theory based on an ‘ethic of care for the world’ is the only way to check imperial intervention and global insecurity

Kyle 13
(Jess Kyle, Professor Philosophy, Binghamton University (SUNY), “Protecting the World: Military Humanitarian Intervention and the Ethics of Care.” Hypatia vol. 28, no. 2 (Spring 2013). Project Muse. pg 268-271)

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas Fitz-Makuch | Judge: Shanahan
Lawyer ‘13
(Rad-Femme Lawyer is a practicing litigator living in Chicago, and a contributor of legal information and opinions to #TWiBNation, Her professional concentrations are commercial and securities litigation, and she also does pro bono work in special education access and employment discrimination. “Drone Policy is the Most Important Racism”, http://thisweekinblackness.com/2013/07/25/drone-policy-is-the-most-important-racism/)
".” Now, Cornel West, among many others, has repeated the parallel, alleging that Obama is a “global George Zimmerman” because the Administration has sanctioned the use of drones for targeted killing ...

...Remind me how that, itself, isn’t racist?"

The role of the judge is to vote for the team that performs a method that best challenges privileged practices and white supremacy within this debate space.
MONTGOMERY ‘13
Ken Montgomery, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. Critical Education, Volume 4 Number 1, January 15, 2013. “Pedagogy and Privilege: The Challenges and Possibilities of Teaching Critically about Racism.” http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/article/view/182323
"Discussions and reflective writing assignments about these readings, simple diagrams conceptualizing both racism and the circuit of cultural production, and the collaborative examination of various typologies of denial which contribute to the reproduction of racism all help to provide theoretical understanding about the root causes, conditions, and pervasive consequences of racism...
... Liberation from the incarcerating conditions and consequences of normalized white supremacy depend upon it."

Tournament: Harvard 1AC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Georgetown Engler-McCoy | Judge: Reed
Edits include: an argument about the topic:

The topic is racist— It demands we criticize Obama’s war powers in a way that ignores the broader history of white supremacy.

Lawyer ‘13
(Rad-Femme Lawyer is a practicing litigator living in Chicago, and a contributor of legal information and opinions to #TWiBNation, Her professional concentrations are commercial and securities litigation, and she also does pro bono work in special education access and employment discrimination. “Drone Policy is the Most Important Racism”, http://thisweekinblackness.com/2013/07/25/drone-policy-is-the-most-important-racism/)
".” Now, Cornel West, among many others, has repeated the parallel, alleging that Obama is a “global George Zimmerman” because the Administration has sanctioned the use of drones for targeted killing ...

...Remind me how that, itself, isn’t racist?"

Edited our role of the ballot to include the phrase "white people"...

Finally, Some edits to the 1AC poetry, but mostly the same:

I was born in the south, Duncan, OK.
White Daughter of the Confederacy.
And is it okay that I wasn’t quite
Disappointed with the inheritance?
My parents were both poor college students,
They raised me in a trailer, and I know
what that trailer looks like, Nostalgia.
Mnemonic memories, tied to a house
built on land cleared by the ancestors
Of the men who continue to clear through
Policy and colonialism.
But I sat in the car beholding that
Precious childhood memory crafted
by the souls of the oppressed. My own
Privilege is the white skin that carried me
Through five retail jobs with a white only staff,
Through airports with smiles and jokes, instead of
Searches and seizures and detainment and
Torture. I perform my privilege through my
Russian skills. ? ??? ??????? ????.
It’s a pretty racist culture and but I
Smile when I turn its words back on itself.

I’ve clutched my purse, I’ve gritted my teeth
I’ve watched black men walk by and clicked the locks
that shake Yancy’s bones into rhythmical
Fire. This passion brings forward the ambush,
Picked apart by the articulation
Of deconstruction of a social disease
Promoted and transposed by sanctity
of white privilege and ignorance.
We don’t have the right to walk around with
free consciousness and unkempt naivety.
If no one else in the world can exist
Without constant fear of aggression and
Interpolation, then why should we be
Granted that privilege? White is a race
I am a racist race, the product of
Sanitized history and spaces. I
am an antiracist racist. There
is no clear ending, only a course.
Beat back every racist thought with the words
that poked holes in your history, and killed
that utopia that we think exists
In the white skin world and white world-making.

I was raised to send the marginal to
Hell, but Southern Baptist Beliefs fled
me when I started loving women the
Wrong way. But before then, I ignored the
white bodies that filled the church, painted jesus
White. That made predictions of productive
people off the pigment of their skin, the
shape of their eyes, the accent of their voice.
But as a child, I reproduced these thoughts
and taught children my age not to be racist
but still lock the door if a black body
Walks by. Still laugh at racist jokes, and make
them sometimes. Still assume people fail due
to Hereditary laziness. Still stare
Too long, judge too long. Justify my thoughts
For damn too long. When I started debate,
However, I came to an epiphany
That history was not all that had been
Taught to me. The Indians aren’t all dead,
The US is racist, and Texas schools
Preach fairy tales that glorify white men
as the Saviors of our existence. I
want to go back and tell all of the kids
that what we have been told is a lot
of Bullshit. Decorated in the heap
of Justice and Rights and Peace. You didn’t
EARN everything you have. Your knapsack provided.

A knapsack of privilege sits upon our backs
As we walk through stores and streets with the right
To ask. But why are you stopping me? What
Did I do? Because whites are unraced, and
Neutral. We are individuals who
Can be what we want to be. Go where
we want to go. But Debate led me to
camp in Vermont, where my roommate was
Lashonda, and she liked my partner Alim,
Who was from Newark. Ryan was from the
Bronx, and taught me that not all places are
Safe. All of them brilliant, and a lot like
Me, but constantly berated by thoughts
of history and place and awareness.
That getting to this camp required trains,
and hustle. That life is not equally easy.
This camp was the first time I had been a
Minority, and I was one of four
White kids, out of 23. And at first,
I was defensive and sure of my
Convictions, but two weeks of that will change
your predilections. Stage one: Recognition.

I grew up thinking not wanting to be
With a black man was just sexual preference;
Like an orientation that was from
Nature. Not a socialized pressure from
White construction over histories of
Denial and justice. Peace and war. When
I was a sophomore on the OU
Debate team, I debated with George Lee.
It was his first year, and we were both very
Unsure about how this would work out. But
Then my father broke debate down,
From presumptuous guidelines to the
Material reality. Why would
You pretend to be the one who likes
to oppress you? But these words were more for
George than I, but I clung to the fact that
I too was a oppressed, a lesbian who
could not get married. But I never thought
About my implication in oppression.
And I deflected this until Sarah
Green told me “You have to be careful that
you don’t appear as, I am a lesbian,
And here is my black guy”. And I was mad
But also enlightened, I had clutched my purse
at the ambush of my whiteness. Stage two:
Deflection.

I refuse to feel the way I did
That day, when I had to answer
Jide’s 1AC and ran Cacophony. I
Can no longer deflect. I want to feel how
I did that day when George and I debated
Ben and Iggy and had a poetry
Slam instead. Because sometimes some things
are just right. And we never hit them
Again. Why don’t we talk about method
And then we can move forward. Why
don’t we stop asserting that there is a
tradition that is anything but constructed
out of privilege and whiteness. And
now we want education about
Restricting the power of the only
Black President we have ever had,
While Bush invaded countries and put
an entire group under national
Oppression, only to add to the
Millions stuck in damnation. But now is
Key, that black man is crazy so now,
let’s all defend what the majority voted for
A switching of power from the president to
Congress and courts, the mostly white male
Power backbone to the structure we add to
on a daily basis. Could we please for once,
just stop and think and learn? Maybe the things
This topic will teach us are skewed.
Step 3: Deconstruction.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Michigan State Caporal-Zemel | Judge: Manuel
Role of the Ballot: The role of the ballot is which team best provides a method for the debate community, and the people within the debate community, to address the issue of white supremacy in debate. 

We read different evidence each debate, depends on who you are.

1AC Poetry: By, Stormee Massey
I was born in the south, Duncan, OK.
White Daughter of the Confederacy.
And is it okay that I wasn’t quite
Disappointed with the inheritance?
My parents were both poor college students,
They raised me in a trailer, and I know
what that trailer looks like, Nostalgia.
Mnemonic memories, tied to a house
built on land cleared by the ancestors
Of the men who continue to clear through
Policy and colonialism.
But I sat in the car beholding that
Precious childhood memory crafted
by the souls of the oppressed. My own
Privilege is the white skin that carried me
Through five retail jobs with a white only staff,
Through airports with smiles and jokes, instead of
Searches and seizures and detainment and
Torture. I perform my privilege through my
Russian skills. ? ??? ??????? ????.
It’s a pretty racist culture and but I
Smile when I turn its words back on itself.

I’ve clutched my purse, I’ve gritted my teeth
I’ve watched black men walk by and clicked the locks
that shake Yancy’s bones into rhythmical
Fire. This passion brings forward the ambush,
Picked apart by the articulation
Of deconstruction of a social disease
Promoted and transposed by sanctity
of white privilege and ignorance.
We don’t have the right to walk around with
free consciousness and unkempt naivety.
If no one else in the world can exist
Without constant fear of aggression and
Interpolation, then why should we be
Granted that privilege? White is a race
I am a racist race, the product of
Sanitized history and spaces. I
am an antiracist racist. There
is no clear ending, only a course.
Beat back every racist thought with the words
that poked holes in your history, and killed
that utopia that we think exists
In the white skin world and white world-making.

I was raised to send the marginal to
Hell, but Southern Baptist Beliefs fled
me when I started loving women the
Wrong way. But before then, I ignored the
white bodies that filled the church, painted jesus
White. That made predictions of productive
people off the pigment of their skin, the
shape of their eyes, the accent of their voice.
But as a child, I reproduced these thoughts
and taught children my age not to be racist
but still lock the door if a black body
Walks by. Still laugh at racist jokes, and make
them sometimes. Still assume people fail due
to Hereditary laziness. Still stare
Too long, judge too long. Justify my thoughts
For damn too long. When I started debate,
However, I came to an epiphany
That history was not all that had been
Taught to me. The Indians aren’t all dead,
The US is racist, and Texas schools
Preach fairy tales that glorify white men
as the Saviors of our existence. I
want to go back and tell all of the kids
that what we have been told is a lot
of Bullshit. Decorated in the heap
of Justice and Rights and Peace. You didn’t
EARN everything you have. Your knapsack provided.

A knapsack of privilege sits upon our backs
As we walk through stores and streets with the right
To ask. But why are you stopping me? What
Did I do? Because whites are unraced, and
Neutral. We are individuals who
Can be what we want to be. Go where
we want to go. But Debate led me to
camp in Vermont, where my roommate was
Lashonda, and she liked my partner Alim,
Who was from Newark. Ryan was from the
Bronx, and taught me that not all places are
Safe. All of them brilliant, and a lot like
Me, but constantly berated by thoughts
of history and place and awareness.
That getting to this camp required trains,
and hustle. That life is not equally easy.
This camp was the first time I had been a
Minority, and I was one of four
White kids, out of 23. And at first,
I was defensive and sure of my
Convictions, but two weeks of that will change
your predilections. Stage one: Recognition.

I grew up thinking not wanting to be
With a black man was just sexual preference;
Like an orientation that was from
Nature. Not a socialized pressure from
White construction over histories of
Denial and justice. Peace and war. When
I was a sophomore on the OU
Debate team, I debated with George Lee.
It was his first year, and we were both very
Unsure about how this would work out. But
Then my father broke debate down,
From presumptuous guidelines to the
Material reality. Why would
You pretend to be the one who likes
to oppress you? But these words were more for
George than I, but I clung to the fact that
I too was a oppressed, a lesbian who
could not get married. But I never thought
About my implication in oppression.
And I deflected this until Sarah
Green told me “You have to be careful that
you don’t appear as, I am a lesbian,
And here is my black guy”. And I was mad
But also enlightened, I had clutched my purse
at the ambush of my whiteness. Stage two:
Deflection.

I refuse to feel the way I did
That day, when I had to answer
Jide’s 1AC and ran Cacophony. I
Can no longer deflect. I want to feel how
I did that day when George and I debated
Ben and Iggy and had a poetry
Slam instead. Because sometimes some things
are just right. And we never hit them
Again. Why don’t we talk about method
And then we can move forward. Why
don’t we stop asserting that there is a
tradition that is anything but constructed
out of privilege and whiteness. And
now we want education about
Restricting the power of the only
Black President we have ever had,
While Bush invaded countries and put
an entire group under national
Oppression, only to add to the
Millions stuck in damnation. But now is
Key, that black man is crazy so now,
let’s all defend what the majority voted for
A switching of power from the president to
Congress and courts, the mostly white male
Power backbone to the structure we add to
on a daily basis. Could we please for once,
just stop and think and learn? Maybe the things
This topic will teach us are skewed.
Step 3: Deconstruction.

Tournament: Hubervermont | Round: 1 | Opponent: Rutgers-Newark Haughton-Stafford | Judge: Geathers
Same poetry as earlier.

Same argument about the "rez being racist," as earlier.

No longer reading a "role of the ballot," instead we make a "Role of the Judge" argument...

"Role of the Judge--A"
The ‘Role of the Judge’ is to vote for the team with the best method for white people to address White Supremacy in the debate space— Our method of confrontation with privilege as a continuous process of humility while remaining implicated in systems of white supremacy best disrupts hegemonic power relations and produces new anti-racist racist pedagogies.
MONTGOMERY ‘13

"Role of the Judge--B"
The role of the judge is to vote for the team that performs a method that best challenges privileged practices and white supremacy within this debate space. You should evaluate this round through your specific subjectivity, we pref you for your role as an educator. Despite what some think, debate is a microcosm of society: we don’t exist above it and are not immune to its ills. We are all implicated.
MONTGOMERY ‘13
Ken Montgomery, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. Critical Education, Volume 4 Number 1, January 15, 2013. “Pedagogy and Privilege: The Challenges and Possibilities of Teaching Critically about Racism.” http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/article/view/182323
"Discussions and reflective writing assignments about these readings, simple diagrams conceptualizing both racism and the circuit of cultural production, and the collaborative examination of various typologies of denial which contribute to the reproduction of racism all help to provide theoretical understanding about the root causes, conditions, and pervasive consequences of racism...
... Liberation from the incarcerating conditions and consequences of normalized white supremacy depend upon it."

Objectivity is an illusion— Judging is situated; your role is to decide the round in a way that confronts your privilege as a process of combating white supremacy.

Wildman ‘05
Stephanie M. Wildman, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Stanta Clara University. “The Persistence of White Privilege,” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Volume 18, Whiteness: Some Critical Perspectives, 18 WASH. U. J.L. and POL’Y 245 (2005). http://digitalcommons.law.wustl.edu/wujlp/vol18/iss1/11
"Catharine Wells explains that judging is “an inherently situated  activity.”...
...Self-consciousness can be the first step toward action."

Other framework and method evidence we've read:

The focus on policymaking is an attempt to deflect the conversation away from race—
This ignores our white implication in privilege, creating a comfort zone of whiteness.

Wildman ‘05
Stephanie M. Wildman, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Stanta Clara University. “The Persistence of White Privilege,” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Volume 18, Whiteness: Some Critical Perspectives, 18 WASH. U. J.L. and POL’Y 245 (2005). http://digitalcommons.law.wustl.edu/wujlp/vol18/iss1/11
"According to Raymond Mohl, “Postwar  policymakers and highway builders used Interstate construction to  destroy low-income and especially black neighborhoods in an effort  to reshape the racial landscapes of the U.S. city.”...
...These dynamics support the persistence of privilege."

You can engage our method—Running framework just proves you refuse to do research

Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley ‘12
“The Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley Interview.” Interview with Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley conducted by Scott Odekirk on 2/13/2012 at the University of Texas debate tournament. Shanara is the first black woman director of debate in the country, a professor of communications at Pitt, and a general goddess of knowledge. http://puttingthekindebate.com/2012/04/02/the-dr-shanara-reid-brinkley/
Odekirk: What do you think, if you had an idea, if you had one wish of what you could do with scholarship in debate rounds that could come to terms with these kind of like structural, the creation of scapegoats, the ostracization of structures, the symbolization of power, the reinforcement of power through different structural things. What can we do with our scholarship, or is there anything, maybe there’s not. What can we do in terms of our debating, to come to terms with this ed?
Dr. Reid-Brinkley: Well, step one is do some ed research. If your answers to Wilderson’s afro-pessimism argument is a Wilderson indict from somebodies book review, and that’s all you got to say to Wilderson you’re an ed idiot. You’re an idiot. You are an idiot. And so I’m astounded looking at debate coaches who I know who do nothing but cut cards who are refusing to do research! What the!? Where are we? I thought we were good at debate. I thought we are in debate. I thought we did research, I thought that’s what sort of defined our community. So you’re telling me you can’t go find the afro-optimists who answer the afro-pessimists? It astounds me. I don’t get it. So I think step one is; shut up about complaining about framework and do some ed research. There is black literature being produced every moment of every day. There is a whole area of the library, sections of the stacks, with relevant information that might be useful for you. Go read some African American history, go find the little out about Africa and Chattel Slavery and the slave trade. It is so simple to me that I don’t understand why the debate community is refusing to do research.
Odekirk: Yeah, fair.

Simulated roleplaying as state policymakers colludes with an imperialist agenda that distances debaters from status quo power relations.

DSRB ‘08
(Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, University of Pittsburgh Department of Communications, “THE HARSH REALITIES OF “ACTING BLACK”: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE” 2008)
"Mitchell observes that the stance of the policymaker in debate comes with a “sense of detachment associated with the spectator posture.”...
...these practices are critically implicated in the maintenance of hegemony."

Policymaking debate is imbued with whiteness— its technologies and techniques privileges whites as the ideal debater.

Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley ‘12
“The Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley Interview.” Interview with Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley conducted by Scott Odekirk on 2/13/2012 at the University of Texas debate tournament. Shanara is the first black woman director of debate in the country, a professor of communications at Pitt, and a general goddess of knowledge. http://puttingthekindebate.com/2012/04/02/the-dr-shanara-reid-brinkley/
".  And, I had no interest in coming back to this community, and people started to approach me and ask me questions about ‘what do you think about what Louisville is doing?’ and I was like well what? ‘well they said people like you are Uncle Toms, and black folks can’t speak fast’ – all of these white people. ...
Then the very ideal of what successful debate looks like is white men with money."

Debate practices are grounded in a white aesthetic that excludes other cultural forms of argument

Hill ‘97
Hill, Shelton 97, Former Debate coach at Biola University, “African American Students’ Motivation to Participate in Intercollegiate Debate, in the Southern Journal of Forensics 2 (Fall, 1997) 202-235

Formal equality fails—We must oppose the aesthetics of white debate to disrupt white supremacy

Headley ‘04
Clevis Headley, Ass. Professor Philosophy Florida Atlantic University. ”Deligitimizing the Normativity of “Whiteness”: A Critical Africana Philosophical Study of the Metaphoricity of “Whiteness.” In George Yancy, ed., What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. 87-106.

Community Comes Before Competition—
Our expansion of debate’s core curriculum is the only way to resist its imperial exclusion of the Other— This is a prereq to real democratic emancipation.
Spanos ‘06
(William, professor of English and comparative literature at SUNY–Binghamton “Humanism and the Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: Rethinking the Anthropologos)
"The post-9/11 educational project of the neoconservatives is informed by an imperial binary logic which necessarily perceives its Other, whether difference, the land, the errant subject, the female sex, people of color, gays, or the various peoples of the "third world," as a demonic negative that has to be contained or annihilated...
..., a dehumanized humanity reduced to the mechanics of getting and spending in the global market."

Whiteness is an epistemology of denial that fills-in—It is the ‘metaprivilege’ that stabilizes challenges to White Supremacy. It crowds out alternatives and makes white privilege invisible by viewing anti-racist work as an option.
Flagg ‘05
Barbara J. Flagg, Professor of Law, Washington University. “Whiteness as Metaprivilege.” Racism.org: Race, Racism and The Law. Barbara J. Flagg, Foreword: Whiteness as Metaprivilege, 18Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 1-11 (2005). http://racism.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=398:whiteness16aandcatid=69andItemid=165
"Whiteness is a social location of power, privilege, and prestige. ...
...Seemingly creating a space for meaningful transformation of White race consciousness, these axioms of Whiteness constitute core metaprivileges of Whiteness, and they provide a final layer of defense in the maintenance of White supremacy."

Recognition is not enough— Only individual confrontation with privilege challenges systems of white supremacy— whites have to be willing to give up power
Wise ‘2K
Tim Wise is an antiracist educator, organizer and writer based in Nashville, Tennessee. AlterNet News and Politics, “Challenging Whiteness: Statistics tell of the disadvantages of "blackness" or "brownness" but few examine the flipside: namely, the advantages of whiteness.” July 2, 2000. http://www.alternet.org/story/9390/challenging_whiteness
"Being white means never having to think about it. ...
...It's time to revoke the privileges of whiteness."

Recognition is not enough— Taking collective responsibility is the first step to individual confrontation of privilege— Remaining implicated in racism is the only way to combat white supremacy

Flagg ‘05
Barbara J. Flagg, Professor of Law, Washington University. “Whiteness as Metaprivilege.” Racism.org: Race, Racism and The Law. Barbara J. Flagg, Foreword: Whiteness as Metaprivilege, 18Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 1-11 (2005). http://racism.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=398:whiteness16aandcatid=69andItemid=165
"Whiteness Presents Human Agency as Absolute/ubr / In one sense, this is so. Human action is not fully determined by conditions external to the actor. However, agency effectuates itself within sets of conditions that constrain, often severely, even if they do not entirely control. Thus agency is a complex amalgam of possibilities and constraints, material and ideological conditions and consequences...
...
... White complicity in structures of subordination today is a leading mechanism for the maintenance of White supremacy. Thus material change in the direction of racial justice requires an end to such complicity."

The white subject has to remain implicated in systems of supremacy as a continual process of exposing racism

Ahmed ‘04
Sara Ahmed, Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and Associate Editor of International Journal of Cultural Studies. “Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism.” Borderlands, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004.
"59. In making this prescription, it is important that I do not rush to ‘inhabit’ a ‘beyond’ to the work of exposing racism, as that which structures the present that we differently inhabit...
...
... We don’t know, as yet, what such conditions might be, or whether we are even up to the task of recognizing them."

We must heed the perspectives of the oppressed to investigate white supremacy 

Henze ‘2K
Brent Henze, “Who Says Who Says?” Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism, Ed. Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia, 2000
"Though I argue against efforts to speak for those otherwise able to produce and enact liberatory agendas for themselves, “starting off thought” from the lives of the oppressed is useful for grounding the knowledge of outsiders seeking to understand their own complex relations to systems of oppression. ...
...
. In other words, the standpoint of the oppressed is necessary to manage our own involvement with systems of oppression so as most effectively to combat oppression as a systemic yet particular effect of power."