Tournament: D3 Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Trinity Vail-Yorko | Judge: KOSLOW
An effeminization politics must be generated
Melissa Harris-Perry and bell hooks 2013
("Melissa Harris-Perry And bell hooks Discuss Black Womanhood, Politics And Media" (VIDEO), Black Voices by The Huffington Post, November 8, 2013 (accessed, 12/11/13) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/melissa-harris-perry-bell-hooks_n_4242909.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular 1:20:00-1:27:17)
"Hi, I’m Nakesia Lewis and you ... I do think that’s part of it at least."

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 2 | Opponent: UT Dallas Gonzales-Loehr | Judge: Cram
Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in the targeted killing of JoAnne Chesimard.

The central question introduced through the resolution demands that we recognize our positionality as Black men who participate within the targeted killings of Black women. By relating to the political and revolutionary perspectives of Black women and other women of color, we center our political project on reimagining the very representations of her womanhood which were left to slay her. This resolution forces us to question the internalized structures of American Africanism because while Assata remains the two-million dollar target, Black men become the ammunition to the gun of the establishment
Joy James in 2009 tells us that: (Joy James; Presidential Professor of the Humanities and a professor in political science.  “Framing the Panther: Assata Shakur and Black Women Agency,” 2009, 139)
“How we imagine … a male persona.”

These politics of representation has historically targeted and continues to shape the life and death of Black women. The New York Time’s false representation of Assata’s savage womanhood and terrorist persona in the 60s throughout the 80s continues even today as we move our voices toward historical correction. Helene Christol in her study of Assata’s life work and political involvement in 2001 explains that our “voice-over” to the historico-poltical violence to Black women is essential to changing the FBI portraits of Black women and political revolutionaries:
(Helene Christol; Received her PhD from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. She is now a professor of American Studies and chairperson of the American Studies Program at the University of Provence, Aix-Marseille I, France (quals found in “Black Imagination and the Middle Passage”); “Militant Autobiography: the Case of Assata Shakur” 2001, in the Book, Black Liberation in the Americas. 134)
“Shakur’s militant autobiography … in the autobiography.”

The narrative that laid the foundation for the attack on Black women date as far back as 1712 where Slave Masters were trained in “The Breaking Process of the African Women” –a process that continues to target Blacks with bullwhips and psychological tricks of representations. Black men are torn right down the middle –shattering any sense of manhood and severing him from African women. African Women were beat for their resilience, left independent with no man to protect or nurse her bloody-broken womb. In the middle of our brokenness, Black slaves and their sexual and color differences were used for control and repression. William Lynch says:
(“The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making Of A Slave!”; This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712)
“Continually through the …own axis forever.”

And yet 300 years later the axis still turns with the terrorizing of Assata Shakur. Toni Morrison calls this process American Africanism where the African, or blackness broadly defined is used to add legitimacy to the violence against other Africans and the advancement of white structural politics, spaces, performances, and things.
Like, the discussions surrounding Black-on-Black Crime
Like, the Black male Aaron Thomas who proudly announced the Black women Assata Shakur’s target status as a domestic terrorist,
Like, the cast of her blackness used to reaffirm the security of the normative American identity,
Like, the fungible use of Black wombs for white households and the development of the United States of America
Like, the resolution’s call to have Black debaters denounce and limit the scope of a Black president. Morrison says that:
(Toni Morrison, “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination” Harvard University Press 1992; 6-7)
“Through significant and … blessings of freedom.”

The Role of the Judge is to affirm a form of active politics. For us, our active politics is a resistance to the targeted killings of Black women through the use of embodied performance.
Ethnographer Dwight Conquergood says that:
(Dwight Conquergood, PhD, ethnographer, Performance scholar, “Interventions and Radical Research” 2002 147)
“The “error” and … that is unlettered.”

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 7 | Opponent: Berkeley Muppalla-Spurlock | Judge: Harris, Matheson, Wash
Notes attached under "Open Source"