Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 6 | Opponent: Minnesota Sadagopal-Tauring-Traxler | Judge: Green
The 1ac is a point of inspiration for "my little black ones"...The authors referenced are footnotes in the speech...There are a number of other authors used that are also footnoted.
Various specific examples are given of individuals who experience structural violence and then are treated for this violence in different ways as a result of structural racism - hunger + the way that police officers target certain populations + the way that Katrina victims were treated differently based upon perceived skin color + Stand your ground + the story of a black woman (Marissa) detained for firing a shot in the air to protect her child + other examples
The question is how can children use their war powers - calling from the spirit of Chicano, Puerto Rican, Native and African sisters
Stop roleplaying Superman and Wonderwoman and play run-away-slave or Mau Mau
War is not only about killing or enslavement, war is also about putting people of color under a gendered and racial conception of modernity - this carries over in the debate space - causing black debaters to quit
You are the war machine....Rise up and emrace your war powers as a guerilla fighter. They embrace guerilla pluralism Footnoted (Medina, associate professor of Philosophy @ Vanderbilt Univeristy, 11
José- Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at the University of Madrid; “Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism”)
Your allies are the Zapatistas and the Black Panthers. Play urban guerrilla warfare - Stanford, Founder of African Liberation Support Committee 1970
Max; “Black Guerrilla Warfare: Strategy and Tactics” - "Andt this poem I give....racist knowledge of this body."
