Tournament: Hubervermont | Round: 3 | Opponent: Rochester Monday-Poole | Judge: Revelins
Ahmed K

Your anti-racist performance is not action and only obscures material conditions of white supremacy

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, 2004.50.
"This might sound like an argument about the performativity of race....
... and indeed the claim that saying is doing can bypass that ways in which saying is not sufficient for an action, and can even be a substitute for action."

Your anti-racist speeches create a fantasy of transcendence that replicates white privilege

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.
"52. My concern with the non-performativity of anti-racism has hence been to examine how sayings are not always doings, or to put it more strongly, to show how the investment in saying as if saying was doing can actually extend rather than challenge racism. ...
... Or we could even say that anti-racist speech in a racist world is an ‘unhappy performative’: the conditions are not in place that would allow such ‘saying’ to ‘do’ what it ‘says’."

Declarations claiming to transcend whiteness and racism only obscure it

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.
"This paper examines six different modes for declaring whiteness used within academic writing, public culture and government policy, arguing that such declarations are non-performative: they do not do what they say. ...
...  Declarations of whiteness could be described as ''unhappy performatives', the conditions are not in place that would allow such declarations to do what they say. "

DECLARATIVE COMMITMENTS PERTAINING TO RACISM DO NOT “SOLVE” 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.
"My commentary on the risks of whiteness studies will involve an analysis of how whiteness gets reproduced through being declared, within academic texts, as well public culture. ...
... As Mike Hill suggests: ‘I cannot know in advance whether white critique will prove politically worthwhile, whether in the end it will be a friendlier ghost than before or will display the same stealth narcissism that feminists of color labeled a white problem in the late 1970s’ (1997, 10). "

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: Trinity Vail-Yorko | Judge: Garcia-Lugo
Your epistemology is built on stolen land— Your theory effaces and defers the Settler Colonialism of Empire, which ensures the continued genocide of indigenous people.
Byrd, 2011 (Jodi,  The Transit of Empire, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. – Chickasaw)
The Indian’s absence is the ontological prior through which your epistemology functions. This parallax gap is the imperialist drive behind environmental destruction and world war.
Byrd, 2011 (Jodi,  The Transit of Empire, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. – Chickasaw)
Your epistemology’s deferral of colonialism perpetuate the violent collisions and cacophony that make the transit of global empire possible— Your epistemology of oppression ignores Settler Colonialism’s dependence on the ontological exclusion of the Indian to social death. The colonial traces of your philosophy replicate civil society’s antagonistic structure of violence.
Byrd, 2011 (Jodi,  The Transit of Empire, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. – Chickasaw)

Your theory’s knowledge production maintains the structural antagonism of civil society through the parallax gaps that form a cacophony of colonialist logics. Its eradication of indigeneity dooms your epistemology and creates the stage for colonial expansion globally.
Byrd, 2011 (Jodi,  The Transit of Empire, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. – Chickasaw)
Your epistemology’s prior ontological exclusion of the Indian ‘Savage’ is the clearing that locks western civil society into a structural antagonism of genocide. This turns all attempts at transformative politics.
Wilderson 2009 (Frank, Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, p. 141-142)
The alternative is to reject the Aff: Rejection is the key first step to the prioritization of Indian epistemologies as an intervention to empire. Your genocidal effacement of the radical alterity of the Indian is at the heart of Settler Colonialism’s biopolitical governance over life and death.
Byrd, 2011 (Jodi,  The Transit of Empire, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. – Chickasaw)
Method is key to epistemology: The epistemological prioritization of decolonialization must come first. Only the alternative avoids the genocidal practices of theory and dismantles the structures of Settler Colonialism.
Byrd, 2011 (Jodi, The Transit of Empire, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. – Chickasaw)

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Central Florida JT | Judge: Izaak Dunn
Your focus on Wot leads to forgetting larger imperial violence.
Cicarelli 10 

Focus on 9/11 turns the ability to confront imperialism.
Zehfuss 03

This leads to forgetting Vietnam.
Zehfuss 3

Vietnam is the manifestation of America's imperial Errand in the Wilderness.
Spanos 08

The affirmative is an instance of attempting to recuperate American Exceptionalism to appear more benign, which perpetuates the Errand in the Wilderness.
Spanos 08

This means the affirmative becomes a new facade for Pax Americana.
Spanos 8 

Framing the academy as value-free only ignores the way in which American Exceptionalism manifests in the academy, which leads to exceptionalism.
Spanos 93

Your knowledge production leads to the colonization of Pax Americana within the academy as a form of "benign" hegemony that only replicates imperialism.
Spanos 96

The alternative is to reject the aff to forget 9/11 to remember Vietnam.

Tournament: Cedanats | Round: 5 | Opponent: Towson Begum-Underdue | Judge: Allen
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.

The alternative is to reject the aff as healing. 

“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. 

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.

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. 

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: Hubervermont | Round: 2 | Opponent: dont remember | Judge: judge
Surveillance K of Drones:
You ignore the real power of drones in their function as an apparatus of surveillance

Shaw ‘13
Ian G. R. Shaw, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow , Scotland. “Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of US Drone Warfare.” Geopolitics, 18:3, 536-559. 14 Jun 2013. Taylor and Francis.
"The 2012 DSG makes it clear that physical boots on the ground are not part of the strategic environment of the future. ...
...
Their vulnerability is inseparable from the topological spatial power of the Predator Empire. "


Surveillance Comes First: Surveillance is what makes the biopolitical regime of drones possible

Shaw ‘13
Ian G. R. Shaw, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow , Scotland. “Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of US Drone Warfare.” Geopolitics, 18:3, 536-559. 14 Jun 2013. Taylor and Francis.
"My analysis then extends to a set of delegitimising discourses that challenge the abstract White House security and bureaucratic narratives, by reviewing interview materials from a 2010 report by Civilians in Armed Conflict (CIVIC)32 and a 2012 report by Stanford Law School and the New York School of Law. ...
...
Panetta’s words are telling: future American national strategy will be performed by special operations forces and drones, and while the enormous US ground presence around the world will be reduced (but by no means eliminated), US aerial presence is set to expand. "

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: George Mason Brown-Woodward | Judge: Zagorin
1NC:
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.

Asking white people to see the world through the eyes of the oppressed is a view from nowhere that perpetuates whiteness

Yancy 05, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 19.4 (2005) 215-241

"I write out of a personal existential context. This context is a profound source of knowledge connected to my "raced" body. ...
...
...As James Snead has noted, "Mythification is the replacement of history with a surrogate ideology of white elevation or Black demotion along a scale of human value" (Snead 1994, 4)."

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."

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."