General Actions:
Focus over there, masks racism here -- Bersconi ..
Whiteness is more powerful when left invisible --Yancy
We are our situation - Birt
Next Level Debate - Debate will go to the next level...the key issue is what ontologies and skills will we take with us.
We have different spits/poems/speeches that make these arguments also.
We argue you make white invisible and that you are only an extension of white supremacy abroad.
Here is the newest version of our affirmative - UMKC Round 1
Round 3 UMKC Neg
Debate is a rigged game just like democracy is a rigged game.
Debate can only assist democracy if it is not rigged towards the powers of whiteness and white supremacy.
Knowledge production of the rigged game only serves to perpetuate the white supremacy that poisons our democracy.
By addressing whiteness in debate, the problems of the rigged game of US democracy.
No democracy here in debate, means we cannot help democracy outside of debate.
Vote negate to strip debate of the norms and procedures that make debate a rigged game for whiteness and white supremacy.
The desire to focus over there, masks oppression here.
Your 1ac perpetuates debate as a rigged game.
The is the ballot or the bullet in debate.
Our strategy for addressing democracy here is by addressing the exclusionary norms of debate.
Dominic Jenkins - The Final Frontier - 2002 -
Tim Wise -
Malcolm X Debate Society....
Louisville Malcolm X Debate Society, 2007