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What does it mean, ontologically, to BE capital-B Black in the World? Blackness is fashioned in the furnaces of modernity’s quotidian terror and the churning vertigo of the slave ship in contradistinction to the Human. The African qua Black is a priori metaphysically and socially dead – without transgression or contingency. The black is totally powerless, alienated from kinship structures and generally dishonored.
Woods 7 (Tryon, Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Sonoma State University, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, V, Special Double-Issue, summer 2007, 319-330, OG)
In Wretched of the …reason immediately evacuates.
Black Death provides the material base for freedom, and the psychic void that Humanity flees. The academic specialization of the 1AC disavows the truth of Black Death that facilitates the rise and spread of democratic ideals-
Buck-Morss 2000 (Susan, professor of political philosophy and social theory in the department of government, Cornell University, and Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Public Intellectuals Program, Florida Atlantic University, “Hegel and Haiti”, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 4. (summer, 2000), pp. 821-865, , Accessed: 11/6/11, OG)
By the eighteenth …in this context.~
The Black is the antithesis of all things democratic and free. Registers of democracy and freedom in civil society temporarily embrace the radicalism of Black incapacity, and then return to the comfort of White capacity. This allows social movements from the Tea Party to Tahrir Square to abstain from the absolute ethics of Redness and Blackness. This constant reformation of the unethical world allows liberal multiculturalists to sleep soundly of their pillows of Black flesh.
Wilderson 10 [Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages 29-31, OG]
The three structuring … return of the repressed.
Notions of freedom, rights, and participation gain their coherence in contradistinction to the abject mutesness of the Black object. As Humanity aspires to freedom, screaming “give me liberty or give me death”, “we are the 99 percent”, “we won’t be slaves to Mubarrak or Ben Ali”, “down with Saleh”, it renders illegible the Slave’s grammar of suffering. Freedom for the Slave lies not in the “Arab Spring”, the blazing autumn skies of the Enlightenment, or the warm breeze of July 4th. It is gratuitous freedom from the world, Humanity, and the multicultural love-fests that inaugurated the slave trade and sustains contemporary rainbow coalitions-
Wilderson 10 [Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages 19-22, OG]
In their own … to the Slave.
Gratuitous freedom doesn’t mean fighting for democratic inclusion and the ideals they entail, but fighting against democracy itself. The Black ethico-political project is unabashed revolution. It is not a struggle against America’s policies, but America itself. Against democracy!
Boggs 63 [James, Political activist and author of The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook, “Letter of correspondence to Brandt Russell”, archived at the Walter P. Reuther library at Wayne State]
Dear Lord Russell: It has … it what you may.
The Black call for contingent freedom and democratic participation perfects Slavery. The only option for the Slave is to BURN DOWN EVERYTHING in this unethical world. Cleansing violence, just like that of the Haitian revolution, is the only path to gratuitous freedom.
Farley 4 (Anthony Paul, Associate Professor at Boston College Law School, “Perfecting Slavery”, , Accessed: 11/9/11, OG)
What is to be … to not be.
The Slave forced is always to structurally adjust and “play alive” to participate in democracy and academia. Academic circles like the debate community police Black thought to maintain proper limits, equal ground, and stability. This process disavows Black incapacity and sutures civil society. Only an interjection of pure Black thought can destroy civil society and dis-form knowledge and Reason in the academe-
Wilderson 10
[Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages 38-44, OG]
How is it that the .. their capacity for transgression\
AT: Perm/Coalitions
Positing Anti-black racism at the center doesn’t create a binary paradigm because it asserts a truth, not a totality. Accusations of oppression olympics de-historicize domination, destroying the oppositional potential and efficacy of the coalitions they say we fracture by necessarily shifting the focus of those coalitions away from destroying white civil society to accruing currency in its economy of rights and recognition. This necessitates an inherent anti-blackness by ascribing to a fantasy of colorblind equality whose coordinates are organized and sustained through an invisible schema of genocidal whiteness-
Sexton 2007 [Jarod, Assistant professor of Africana Studies at UC Irvine, “Racial Profiling and the Societies of Control,” Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, p. 209-212]
Black suffering, in …pains and pleasures.
