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This european thought structure has uniquely used culture as a tool of subordinating and dominating other groups. This logic allows the colonizer to visit any number of atrocities, while remaining constant with liberal democracy which was conceived on the basis of race, favouring terrorist weapons making the manifestation of racism appropriate.
Elizabeth Gould - Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Toronto -2k8- Devouring the Other:Democracy in Music Education- Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education- Online- Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education- Online- http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Gould7_1.pdf
And European Culture traps Africana people in cultural misorientation leading african americans to mentally affirm and embrace European customs and traditions which denigrates african american customs.
This cultural misorientation precludes african americans from knowing and validating our own cultural worldviews which leads to the internalization of pejorative images about our homeland and history resulting in low cultural and racial esteem preventing us from acquiring sustainable social and economic structures.
Schiele, 2k5
Jerome H. Associate Dean and Professor University of Georgia School of Social Work, Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans, p6
And debate teaches these european customs and traditions to africana people within the debate community with policy debate replicating the Eurocentric notion of ethics as a way of thinking, or conceptual ethics, versus ethic as ACTION. It promulgates a disconnected ethics where speaking is enough, creating a false reality where we can believe power is effected with our thoughts, preventing us from seeing the need to take real action to preserve the material EXISTENCE of the oppressed, meaning debaters never solve the issues discussed.
To be ethical is to be rational, thinking in an abstract manor divorced from the people we claim to solve for increasing the European ethos which is based in Anti-africanism.
Marimba Ani. Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior. March 1994 Pg.329-331
Debate is an exclusion based on racial performance forcing Africana people to become performatively whitened. In order to have equitable success one must change one's appearance, standardize language practices and eschew cultural practices.
Reid Brinkley direct of debate @ university of Pittsburgh 2k8
Thus Ameena and I affirm an Africana Womanist epistemology as a mechanism for intellectual decolonization to shatter the current European thought structure.
The physical and political domination of Africa in the form of the transatlantic slave-trade in addition to centuries of colonial occupation was enable by the European imposition of culture and ideas which continues to this day.
THUS, Intellectual decolonization must precede all other forms of liberation.
Ani, marimba 94, Yurugu: an african centered critique of european cultural though and behavior. Trenton, NJ, african world press pg 1
Our framework for this debate is who has the best methodology for liberation of the oppressed.
The 1AC is done through the lens of an africana womanist epistemology as a method of connecting to our culture, recognizing the significance of all human life protecting and nurturing all human kind, using it as a guiding lens to interrogate European culture. Africana womanism becomes the tool that the 1ac uses for intellectual decolonization.
The Africana Womanist is:
SELF NAMING,
FAMILY CENTERED,
COMMUNITY ORIENTED,
SPIRITUAL,
and is a FLEXIBLE ROLE PLAYER,
Only an approach such as this is able to foster a healthy educational space that will prepare students to create effective policies.
Stephens et al, Ph.D. 1996, African American Studies/Urban History & Popular Culture. Temple Unv. 2k2
Ronald J. Maureen Keaveny, Venetria K. Patton, "Come Colour My Rainbow": Themes of Africana Womanism in the Poetic Vision of AudreyKathryn Bullett, pg 8
Only Using the Africana Womanist framework to create space for Africana people to explore their social relations can create communities strong enough to resist the denigration of constant racism and sexism
Clenora Hudson-Weems- 2k8 - Africana womanism and race and gender in the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama- p.118-119
