THE WORD ‘DEMOCRACY’ IS A KIND OF VERBAL NARCOTIC.  TO MENTION IT IS TO DAZE US; TO DULL US INTO PEACEFUL SLUMBER.   DEMOCRACY AS THE PROPAGATION OF LIBERALISM AND INDIVIDUALITY IS SYMPTOMATIC OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN TURN RE-CREATING THE HARMS OF ANTIBLACKNESS THROUGH FORMULATING RATIONAL INDIVIDUALS.

Frank B. Wilderson argues…

Frank B. Wilderson III 2010  Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. (pp. 3-4) Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He has taught Rhetoric/Film Studies University of California, Berkeley. And is an Assoc. Prof. of African American Studies and Film UC Irvine and a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award.

THE RESOLUTION CREATES A BAD FOCUS AND FURTHER CLOAKS, VEILS, AND SANITIZES THE FACE OF ANTIBLACKNESS AND IMPERIALISM IN THE PERCIEVED GOOD ACT OF DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE.   THIS FORM OF HELP ONLY RECONFIGURES THE U.S. INTO  A DOMINANT POSITION

Vardalos 09 (Marianne, Professor of sociology and cultural studies at Laurentian University,  “Raising Good global citizens:  Liberal Humanism as a Philanthropic Rationale for Imperialism” in The White Supremacist State: Eurocentrism, Imperialism, Colonialism, Racism Arnold H. Itwaru, ed. 2009 p. 243-260 deven)

TAKING DEMOCRACY ON FACE FOSTERS AN INTELLECTUAL DEFICIT BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN WIPED OUT IN A HOST OF COUNTRIES BY THE U.S. - U.S. LEADERS HAVE LONG PROFESSED A DEDICATION TO DEMOCRACY, YET OVER THE LAST HALF CENTURY THEY HAVE DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO OVERTHROWING DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS.

U.S. LEADERS HAVE SUPPORTED COVERT ACTION, SANCTIONS, PROXY MERCENARY WARS [both externally and internally] AGAINST REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENTS AND SINCE WORLD WAR II, DIRECT U.S. MILITARY INVASIONS OR AERIAL ATTACKS OR BOTH HAVE BEEN PERPETUATED.

THERE IS NO ‘ROGUE STATE,’ ‘AXIS OF EVIL’ OR ‘COMMUNIST’ COUNTRIES THAT HAS A COMPARABLE RECORD OF SUCH AGGRESSION AGAINST OTHER NATIONS.

Itwaru Argues…

(Itwaru 2009 Arnold, psychotherapist, educator, and editorial consultant on the project named Researching Caribbean Teaching and Learning at the University of the West Indies,  Jamaica “Master Race, Murder and Gory Globalization” in The White Supremacist State: Eurocentrism, Imperialism, Colonialism, Racism Arnold H. Itwaru, ed. 2009 p. 25-79)

THE RESOLUTION AND THE TOPIC SANITIZES A FALSE FORM OF DEMOCRACY AND ATTEMPTS TO EXPORT IT WHICH FEEDS AND GROWS ANTIBLACKNESS NEVER ATTEMPTING TO CHALLENGE MODERNITY. 

PROPER DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE CAN ONLY COME AFTER UNDERSTANDING THAT DEMOCRACY HAS NEVER EXISTED IN AMERICA IN THE FIRST PLACE.  THERE CAN’T BE AN EXPORT OF DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE UNTIL THERE IS A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF DEMOCRACY

however in contrast to demands the coordinates of state and civil society  at large and debate in particular are not elastic enough to welcome or even conceptualize subjective(human) claims made by the slave. The Slave is not present on either the Affirmative or the Negative side: we Must abolish this topic AND WORLD ALTOGETHER and start with the question of the slave. WE NEED AN EPISTEMIC BREAK. (Give us a break.)

Frank B. Wilderson III 2010  Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. (pp.   ) Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He has taught Rhetoric/Film Studies University of California, Berkeley. And is an Assoc. Prof. of African American Studies and Film UC Irvine and  a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award.

WHAT IS THE ASSUMPTIVE LOGIC BEHIND THEIR CLAIMS, ANXIETIES, DESIRES, ENERGIES & PHOBIAS. WE MUST ADDRESS THE “OBJECTIVE” POLITICAL ECONOMY & WHAT JARED SEXTION DISCUSSES WITHIN THE LIBIDINAL ECONOMY… WHICH IS MUCH MORE THAN A STRUCTURE OF FEELING [GRAMSCI/MARX] THE WHOLE STRUCTURE OF EMOTIONAL/PSYCHIC LIFE WITHIN THE GRAMMARS OF SUFFERING WHICH CONSTITUTE THE LIVED EXPERIENCES.

We find ourselves in the singular crisis that slavery provokes.  Slavery Lives On.

as a contemporary social death SENTENCE “for those that bear the mark of slavery- the trace of blackness” The specter of Slavery haunts us.  DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE EXPORTS THE SLAVE ESTATE TO BAHRAIN, EGYPT, LYBIA, TUNISIA, SYRIA, AND YEMEN. 

Jared Sexton 2010 “‘The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction” in Critical Sociology 36; 11. Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African-American studied and Critical Theory at the UC-Irvine.  

DEBATE SHOULD BE A SITE FOR CONTESTATION OVER SOCIO-POLITICAL ANALYSIS AND PROPOSALS, STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS AND POLITICAL PRESCRIPTIONS.

WE SHOULD MAKE EXPLICIT OUR UNDERSTANDINGS AND ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURING FORCES OF SOCIO-POLITICAL HARMS, OPPRESSION OR GRAMMARS OF SUFFERING.  WE CANNOT TAKE POWER RELATIONS FOR GRANTED OR ASSUME THAT WE ALL HAVE A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OR ACCEPTANCE OF STRUCTURAL POWER RELATIONS THAT ARE NECESSARY PRECONDITNS FOR THE FACILITATION OF THESE ACADEMIC DEBATES

Rather, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND the assumptive logic that provides the conceptual coherence and condition of possibility for modernity

SUBSEQUENTLY, THE WORLD HAS BEEN BUILT ON SLAVERY AND ON THE GENOCIDE OF 1^ST PEOPLES MAKING THE SLAVE PARADIGMATIC. 

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NONHUMAN ALLOWED FOR THE HUMAN TO EXIST, OUR ADVOCACY IS THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THE PARADIGM WHICH CONSTITUTES HUMANITY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MODERNITY.

Since there is no coherence between the black positionality and civil society so repair is impossible; it requires the revolution. Thus, any struggle that can act as a stick up artist to the world, demanding all that it cannot give (which is everything), is a move toward something so blindingly new that it cannot be imagined. A COMPLETE EPISTEMIC BREAK – A NEW EPOCH] This is the only thing that could save “us.”

Discourse of democracy within debate assumes democracy’s presence within. We cannot disavow that debate is not a neutral space. The militarized fashion of the knowledge production within limit’s the definition of democracy, purely focuses on the political process, the de jure, glossing over the violence of the prison regime’s pervasive logic that is accompanies with the de facto. Discussions of democracy absent of a structural analysis that focus on the paradox prisons pose mask the anti-black white supremacist protogenocidal logic of the prison-industrial complex within civil society.
 Rodriguez 2010 dylan the disorientation of the teaching act: abolition as pedagogical position. The global us prison… large-scale, punitive imprisonment.

the assumption of democracy’s presence within debate spills over from the presumed notion that we have a democracy in the US where discussions of the paradox that prisons pose never come into question. As Angela Davis argues, out American democracy is a ruse. Having a true democracy in this nation, the “United States” is a pre-requisite to any discussions of democracy assistance, otherwise such efforts will be doomed to the promotion of a false democracy, and American democracy.
 Mendieta 5, introduction: abolition democracy: beyond empire, prisons, and torture.
 For authentic democracy to emerge… weakest and most betrayed.

The ethical demand for a curriculum of resistance has global impacts in how the punishment paradigm is exported to places like Yemen and Pakistan and the middle east north African region where, a trajectory of criminalization occurs on black and brown bodies. The logic of the prison industrial complex regime creates the anti-black denegation of bodies. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/08-0

the school-to-prison...curriculum as resistance.

The concept of democracy commonly associated with the dhalian notion of free & fair elections, civil liberties, human rights, and influences discourses within Debate enabling us to debate as if Democracy assistance can be exported like a commodification.
 Davis 5 angela, “abolition democracy: beyond empire, prisons, and torture”
 Yes, absolutely. But I still…sexual justice and equality

topic specific research frames democracy in the realm of Liberalism where affirmations of the resolution promote the progressive politics that fueled the expansion of the prison regime, government & corporate interests intersected to form the Prison-Industrial complex of the squo.

The affirmation of the resolution amounts to a political discourse that is parasitic and enables condition of possibility for continuance of protogenocidal logic of P.I.C. Militarized forms of knowledge that circulate throughout the season legitimate the invasive logic of the prison regime within Debate space, classrooms, and academia.
 Dylan rodriguez, the disorientation of the teaching act: abolition as pedagogical position. The prison regime is the institutionalization…. Embrace this form of pedagogical audacity.

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affirmations of the resolution operate under the guise of liberalism wherein the radical demands of an abolitionist pedagogy are unspeakable. The reformist ideals of a liberal democracy foreclose upon an abolitionist agenda, however, authentic liberatory social transformations can only be achieved through an abolitionist agenda that strives to abolish the oppressive institutions that reek of the protogenocidal logic engrained in the Prison Regime that commodifies, exploits, immobilizes, politically neutralizes, and socially erases Black/Brown bodies from Civil Society before annihilating them physically altogether.
 Heiner 3, brady, commentary: social death and the relationship between abolition and reform
 The element that ultimately…doomed to mere reform

discussions of the prospects for prison abolition demand that we detach ourselves from the rame of liberal democracy that stunts our political imaginations
 The absence of the embrace of an abolitionist pedagogy comes at the expense of the oxymoronic phrase “American democracy” a term whose existence is exclusive to the realm of a liberal political impagination.
 As rodriguez argues, the abolitionist position is primarily pedagogical, a precondition to democratic freedom and liberatory social transformations and will be the only real inroads into true liberatory politics without divorcing yourself from ethical obligations. The united states is patristic on the political transformations in the middle east and north African region and will only feed off of them to re-inforce antiblackness. Dylay Rodrigues 10, the disorientation of the teaching act: abolition as pedagogical posltion. I have had little trouble… and liberatory social transformations.

The promotion of Democracy overseas to Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, or Yemen is not feasible is the U.S. itself lacks a Democracy. Addressing the paradox prisons pose precedes any discussion of Democracy assistance.

Abolition is not only concerned with the termination of prisons, rather it strives to envision a democracy that does not need such institutions.

Hartnett 2011 (Stephen John. Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Art, & Educational Alternatives. “Empowerment or Incarceration: Reclaiming Hope and Justice from a Punishing Democracy.” Introduction. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2011. 4-5)

Because the prison-industrial complex…. Each other instead of the police.

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