Tournament: CEDA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fresno HT | Judge: Nick Brady
We are not the same I am a Martian. Lil Wayne: Phone Home

Omolade,1984  Barbara “Women of Color and the Nuclear Holocaust” Sociologist and educator Dr. Barbara Omolade received her bachelor’s degree from Queens College, her master’s degree from Goddard College, and her PhD from the City University of New York.  She has worked extensively for women’s and activist organizations and in academia
"For people"..........."our lands"

Robin, 2013 James; “Afrofuturism and Drones”; http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/11/01/afrofuturism-and-drones/
"droning” .............................. "people of color".

TORRES, Professor in Race and Ethnicity @ UC Berkley 2k7.  Nelson Maldonado- “On the Coloniality of Being”PhD, Religious Studies with a Certific
"War, however,is"............................."permanently vanquished"

Galli, Rhode Island Sciences, 2009 Chuck; “hip-Hop Futurism: Remixing Afrofuturism and th Hermeneutics of Identity;” pg: 35-38 http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/18
"thinking about the future"..........................."in the first place".

Thus we affirm the resolution through the process of Jubilee
Galli, Rhode Island Sciences, 2009 Chuck; “hip-Hop Futurism: Remixing Afrofuturism and th Hermeneutics of Identity;” pg: 64-67 http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/18/

"Hip-hop futurism is a".........................."everyone was a nigger."

Austin, Regina; Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania; “Sapphire Bound,” 1989

Tournament: Usc | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard Dimitrijevic-Taylor | Judge: Thompson
The 1ac problematizes the resolutions ability to narrativize the war waged on blackness. It is a performance of a Recombinant Narrative in which the lives of black women are discussed in order to expose the impossibility of representing or portraying their experiences outside of the violence’s that have come to shape and constitute their existence. It is through this process that we are able to disrupt the logic of anti-blackness that comes to sustain presidential war powers.

Sethe imagines a conversation with Beloved in which she attempts to explain/recover/remember her position as a black woman in slavery that had everything stolen from her, even her milk, aka, capacity to provide for her child/to honor her kinship relation
Morrison 87 Toni, wordsmith of our time, Beloved, p. 231
"I didn't have time to explain it before because... take care of Mrs. Garner"

In Beloved we never get a clear historical account of what occurred, the violences and impossible choices, and sufferings, and reclamations of lives and language not recognized as lives or language.  We only get fragments of a past that never remains in the past, but lives on in the present.  Sethe remembers a past she cannot forget, and pulling her wounded and torn life back into a whole: re-membering her life and making her future possible.  It is through the telling of stories that we learn the story of Beloved, whose ghost is not just the ghost of a child given the perverse gift of corporeal death as protection from social death.  No, Beloved is the ghost of the middle passage, the rememories that haunt the political and symbolic life of today.  Black life presents a problem for the purity of knowledge, the purity presumed in a coherence of violence, of death, of life that makes our prescriptive pronouncements matter, Black thought is the problem for the political world that is time and time again disposed as insignificant, untopical, lacking meaning, or threat.

Pecola desires blue eyes, believing that if she were pretty then people would treat her better.  She buys some candy from a general store where she is treated as a problem, as ugly, as invisible.  Her shame, anger, and inability to move with ease in the world after her experience is described.  Her only solace is the candy, which features a blond blue eyed girl on the wrapper.
Morrison 70 Toni, wordsmith of our time, The Bluest Eye, p. 40-3
"It had occurred to Pecola... Lovely Mary Jane, for whom a candy is named."

The Black Venus is an absence who presences.  A flash of history, much like Foucault's infamous men, who is both captured by the archive but cannot be represented in the archive.  She becomes commodity, a life impossible to grasp, a kind of haunting
Hartman 08 Saidiya, Prof. English and Comp. Lit specializing in African-American literature and history @ Columbia, "Venus in Two Acts," Small Axe Number 26 vol. 12, no. 2 June, p. 1-2
"In this incarnation, she appears in the archive as a dead girl... it is doubtless impossible to ever grasp these lives again in themselves, as they might have been "in a free state.""

Properly speaking, we cannot narrativize blackness since blackness has no ground, no implicit presupposition of being upon which to make a claim to position, a place from which to speak.  The disavowal of Black Venus is political.  It is a war, which never gets to go by the name of war, since blackness cannot even be granted the dignity of being a true enemy.  Beyond the friend/enemy distinction, instead the war on blackness is simultaneously spectacularized and rendered invisible through Wars on Poverty, Wars on Drugs, Wars on Terrorism, Wars on Extremism.  Blackness forces a reevaluation of what war is.
TORRES 07 Nelson Maldonado, Prof. Race and Ethnicity @ UC Berkley, "On the Coloniality of Being: Contributions to the development of a concept," Cultural Studies vol. 21, No. 2-3, March-May, p. 246-249
"Ideas of war... we shall do that next."

black people narrativize and perform rituals around death as acts of meaning and community making
Henry 06 Kajsa, Doctoral Student English @ Univ. Massachusetts-Amherst, "A Literary Archaeology of Loss: The Politics of Mourning in African American Literature," p. 17-19 http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/etd/4113/
"In similar ways, resistance and making meaning in narrative forms... cultural trauma is central forming and retaining racial memory."

Mourning stories good
Henry 06 Kajsa, Doctoral Student English @ Univ. Massachusetts-Amherst, "A Literary Archaeology of Loss: The Politics of Mourning in African American Literature," p. 17-19 http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/etd/4113/
"Mourning stories, therefore, have a double function... other means of representing what finally is just absent."

recombinant narrative as a type of attention to black noise of history
Hartman 08 Saidiya, Prof. English and Comp. Lit specializing in African-American literature and history @ Columbia, "Venus in Two Acts," Small Axe Number 26 vol. 12, no. 2 June, p. 11-2
"The intention here isn't anything as miraculous as recovering the lives of the enslaved... This formidable obstacle or constitutive impossibility defines the parameters of my work."

recombinant narrative illuminates anti-black violence, cuts through problem of representation
Hartman 08 Saidiya, Prof. English and Comp. Lit specializing in African-American literature and history @ Columbia, "Venus in Two Acts," Small Axe Number 26 vol. 12, no. 2 June, p. 13-4
"For these reasons, I have chosen to engage a set of dilemmas about representation, violence, and social death... In the meantime, it is clear that her life and ours hang in the balance."