Teter-Andrade Aff

Poems

Poems/Narratives

Right or Wrong?
Before this job, his life was always fearful
He would walk into the cave of black
It appeared to go on and one:
Never ending 

He was frightened that the coal above would rain down,
Scared of receiving that career-ending call,
Worried for his friends alongside him,
And wondering if he will see the sun shine the next day

But now that's all behind him
He feels safer, more protected
Mountaintop removal feeds his family
Provides him with a house, keeps them warm 

The sulfuric smell fills his nose and mouth
The booming sound of shattered rocks
Rings in his ears
Up there he can see it all 

He stands there on the mountain
Sees the destruction caused by his hand
The majestic colors are gone
A plain of gray and black fills their place 

He blasts away God's beauty
Destruction caused by one small button
All for the wealth of man
For the black gold 

His mind spins in his head
As he stands above the world
Were his priorities in the right order?
Did he pick right from wrong? 

Sarah Rancis, Kentucky
High School sophomore

Becoming Beauty Again 

Sometimes when I am lost in the rolling gray sadness of cities,
Sometimes driving in my automobile
on the wide dead rivers of interstate highways
I see a meadow, burished grass,
a pond like a silver crown,
garlands of pear blossoms, a grape arbor
twining its small green hands 

I see myself go to the great white switch
that keeps the refrigerator running and the saw
spinning and the light connecting its circuitry,
that keeps the factories pumping, the drillers
whetting appetites, the dozers and treecutters
grinding and growling and grating and greasing,
that doesn't forget the manufactureres of weapons 

And in one volcanic motion, using both hands
and every nerve in my body,
I flip the big switch
off 

Off.
That quiet.
Loud stunning quiet.
Paralysis of storm quiet.
A quiet that doesn't last
yet a quiet forever come. 

I will walk away from the switch
terrified out of my mind,
also mindlessly happy while
the eye of the storm passes over. 

Janisse Ray, Georgia 

Revolutionary 

I want to look up, above the lights
And praise God, whoever she is
For all those stars about my head
And know, that that's what truth feels like 

I want to hug a tree to save its life
Knowing that it saves mine every day
And I want to drive to the mountaintop
And I want it to be there. 

I want you to know my name
Even if you disagree with who I am
And I want to feel, each day, like
I feel this very second 

I want to motivate screaming voices
And fists of fury to sit down
And exercise their right to peacefully assemble 

I want black and whites
And the full color-spectrum of nationality
To take a deep breath and
Allow the earth a chance to change 

I want ot be the possibility
And I want to be the change I wish to see
I want to live, love, and grow without fear
My name is Cody True
And I want to be a revolutionary 

Cody C True McClanahan, South Carolina
College Sophomore 

I Care 

Throughout my life, I have seen and done important things but there is one thing that beats all: trying to stop mountaintop removal.
My classmates and I have dedicated the whole year to assist in deating the pullution of streams in Appalachia cuased by mountaintop removal.
They're making flat land, but they are also taking away treasured ground. This matter has gone on long enough and that's why we're taking a stand for people who don't have a voice in what happens to them. Some are threatened by the coal companies if they try to speak out, criticizing the coal industry.
We don't care what people think of us or say to us. You want to know why? Because we believe in this cause. Believe me, this is going to be sotpped. I don't care how and I don't care when, but the coal companies will be stopped. This is a matter that I'll believe in till I'm laid in the ground. 

Mark REynolds, Kentucky
Fifth Grade 

1AC

If anyone has any questions my email is teter.natalie@gmail.com and facebook works too. The Sylvia Wynter stuff can be difficult and I am available to talk about her writing. 

Poetics access the realms of consciousness that were penned up on reservations as Western Man colonized the world. 

Wynter 76 (Sylvia, chair of African-American Studies at Stanford, “Ethno or Socio Poetics,” Alcheringa 2:2, p. 83)
The idea of the savage black, writes Cesaire, was a European invention...To quote Orwell, and to paraphrase: ALL MEN WERE EQUAL BUT WESTERN MAN WAS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

What you do not see does not exist. The moment, like a raft, carries you on the luminous surface of its round disc, and you deny the abyss that lies about you. The future citadel, thanks to my son, will open its wide windows on the abyss, from which will come great gusts of shadow upon our shriveled bodies, our haggard brows. With all my soul, I wish for this opening. In the city which is being bron such should be our work all of us, Hindues, Chinese, South Americans, Negroes, Arabs, all of us, awkward and pitiful, we the underdeveloped, who feel ourselves to be clumsy in a world of perfect mechanical adjustment.

Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure 1963 

Estrangement from the natural organic environment allows the earth to be seen as harvestable commodities, justifying violence. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 25 – 26) 

Earth is a diverse ecosystem...A spledorous spread of rolling hills and green mountains mirrored nowhere in the world is being systematically destroyed so that an unsustainable way of life in our cities may continue.” 

Apathy for this destruction is generated by imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, creating a sacrifice zone where communities and the earth are disposable. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 29 -30) 

Unlike other Appalachian tour groups who have visited at Morgan’s home, we were not able to make it up the mountain in our bus...While Walker is talking about the fate of black folk, her words speak to the human condition in our culture, especially to the lives exploited and oppressed people of all colors. 

A development telos rationalizes reformating Appalachian mountains and people to be more suitable for the enactment of capital. 
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

The idea that humans have the power .... and MTR offers the chance to fix it. 

Appalachia is an internal colony, constructed as a sacrifice zone where the suffering of its people is the price paid for Western Development. The resolution assumes consumption and does not leave space to question what is removed through the production of energy. 

Scott 2010 (removing mountains, 176) 

Over and over again in interviews....which sacrifices for America but is not of America 

This telos configures Western systems of knowledge production that are not objective but culture specific. 
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The major proposal ... out of our own present hegemonic mode of rationality 

Because the epistemology of development orders state politics, we cannot solve for the impacts by working within the present system
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

If we see ourselves today ... the challenge is now evident.
 

By delinking from the coloniality of the topic, the affirmative engages in epistemic disobedience to create access to the liminal space. An epistemological revolution is necessary. 
Mingolo 2011(Walter. Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.) 

It was necessary, Quijano asserted...to spatial sites of struggles and building rather than to a new temporality within the same space (from Greece, to Rome, to Paris, to London, to Washington DC).

By positioning ourselves in the space of liminality, we can reveal new knowledge of oppressive orders
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The paradox here is that the category of liminality...can provide the data able to tell us how each such order must be known, perceived, and acted on. 

Because white heteropatriarchal colonialism constructs the material conditions of MTR, resistance through embodying liminality results in decolonization materially and epistemically.
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

Clearly, it is the story of the modern man ... hegemonic identity formations that support these practices. 

Only through decolonizing our minds will we be able to sustain an intimate connection to the earth and resist mountaintop removal
hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging 32 - 33) 

As we work to redeem nature ... we can see is a landscape of destruction. 

1AC

If anyone has any questions my email is teter.natalie@gmail.com and facebook works too. The Sylvia Wynter stuff can be difficult and I am available to talk about her writing. 

Poetics access the realms of consciousness that were penned up on reservations as Western Man colonized the world.
Wynter 76 (Sylvia, chair of African-American Studies at Stanford, “Ethno or Socio Poetics,” Alcheringa 2:2, p. 83)
The idea of the savage black, writes Cesaire, was a European invention...To quote Orwell, and to paraphrase: ALL MEN WERE EQUAL BUT WESTERN MAN WAS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

What you do not see does not exist. The moment, like a raft, carries you on the luminous surface of its round disc, and you deny the abyss that lies about you. The future citadel, thanks to my son, will open its wide windows on the abyss, from which will come great gusts of shadow upon our shriveled bodies, our haggard brows. With all my soul, I wish for this opening. In the city which is being bron such should be our work all of us, Hindues, Chinese, South Americans, Negroes, Arabs, all of us, awkward and pitiful, we the underdeveloped, who feel ourselves to be clumsy in a world of perfect mechanical adjustment.

Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure 1963 

Estrangement from the natural organic environment allows the earth to be seen as harvestable commodities, justifying violence. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 25 – 26) 

Earth is a diverse ecosystem...A spledorous spread of rolling hills and green mountains mirrored nowhere in the world is being systematically destroyed so that an unsustainable way of life in our cities may continue.” 

Apathy for this destruction is generated by imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, creating a sacrifice zone where communities and the earth are disposable. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 29 -30) 

Unlike other Appalachian tour groups who have visited at Morgan’s home, we were not able to make it up the mountain in our bus...While Walker is talking about the fate of black folk, her words speak to the human condition in our culture, especially to the lives exploited and oppressed people of all colors. 

A development telos rationalizes reformating Appalachian mountains and people to be more suitable for the enactment of capital. 
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

The idea that humans have the power .... and MTR offers the chance to fix it. 

This telos configures Western systems of knowledge production that are not objective but culture specific. 
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The major proposal ... out of our own present hegemonic mode of rationality 

Because the epistemology of development orders state politics, we cannot solve for the impacts by working within the present system
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

If we see ourselves today ... the challenge is now evident.
 

By delinking from the coloniality of the topic, the affirmative engages in epistemic disobedience to create access to the liminal space. An epistemological revolution is necessary. 
Mingolo 2011(Walter. Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.) 

It was necessary, Quijano asserted...to spatial sites of struggles and building rather than to a new temporality within the same space (from Greece, to Rome, to Paris, to London, to Washington DC).

By positioning ourselves in the space of liminality, we can reveal new knowledge of oppressive orders
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The paradox here is that the category of liminality...can provide the data able to tell us how each such order must be known, perceived, and acted on. 

Because white heteropatriarchal colonialism constructs the material conditions of MTR, resistance through embodying liminality results in decolonization materially and epistemically.
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

Clearly, it is the story of the modern man ... hegemonic identity formations that support these practices. 

Only through decolonizing our minds will we be able to sustain an intimate connection to the earth and resist mountaintop removal
hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging 32 - 33) 

As we work to redeem nature ... we can see is a landscape of destruction. 

1AC

If anyone has any questions my email is teter.natalie@gmail.com and facebook works too. The Sylvia Wynter stuff can be difficult and I am available to talk about her writing. 

Poetics access the realms of consciousness that were penned up on reservations as Western Man colonized the world.
Wynter 76 (Sylvia, chair of African-American Studies at Stanford, “Ethno or Socio Poetics,” Alcheringa 2:2, p. 83)
The idea of the savage black, writes Cesaire, was a European invention...To quote Orwell, and to paraphrase: ALL MEN WERE EQUAL BUT WESTERN MAN WAS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

What you do not see does not exist. The moment, like a raft, carries you on the luminous surface of its round disc, and you deny the abyss that lies about you. The future citadel, thanks to my son, will open its wide windows on the abyss, from which will come great gusts of shadow upon our shriveled bodies, our haggard brows. With all my soul, I wish for this opening. In the city which is being bron such should be our work all of us, Hindues, Chinese, South Americans, Negroes, Arabs, all of us, awkward and pitiful, we the underdeveloped, who feel ourselves to be clumsy in a world of perfect mechanical adjustment.

Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure 1963 

Estrangement from the natural organic environment allows the earth to be seen as harvestable commodities, justifying violence. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 25 – 26) 

Earth is a diverse ecosystem...A spledorous spread of rolling hills and green mountains mirrored nowhere in the world is being systematically destroyed so that an unsustainable way of life in our cities may continue.” 

Apathy for this destruction is generated by imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, creating a sacrifice zone where communities and the earth are disposable. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 29 -30) 

Unlike other Appalachian tour groups who have visited at Morgan’s home, we were not able to make it up the mountain in our bus...While Walker is talking about the fate of black folk, her words speak to the human condition in our culture, especially to the lives exploited and oppressed people of all colors. 

A development telos rationalizes reformating Appalachian mountains and people to be more suitable for the enactment of capital. 
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

The idea that humans have the power .... and MTR offers the chance to fix it. 

This telos configures Western systems of knowledge production that are not objective but culture specific. 
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The major proposal ... out of our own present hegemonic mode of rationality 

Because the epistemology of development orders state politics, we cannot solve for the impacts by working within the present system
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

If we see ourselves today ... the challenge is now evident.
 

By delinking from the coloniality of the topic, the affirmative engages in epistemic disobedience to create access to the liminal space. An epistemological revolution is necessary. 
Mingolo 2011(Walter. Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.) 

It was necessary, Quijano asserted...to spatial sites of struggles and building rather than to a new temporality within the same space (from Greece, to Rome, to Paris, to London, to Washington DC).

By positioning ourselves in the space of liminality, we can reveal new knowledge of oppressive orders
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The paradox here is that the category of liminality...can provide the data able to tell us how each such order must be known, perceived, and acted on. 

Because white heteropatriarchal colonialism constructs the material conditions of MTR, resistance through embodying liminality results in decolonization materially and epistemically.
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

Clearly, it is the story of the modern man ... hegemonic identity formations that support these practices. 

Only through decolonizing our minds will we be able to sustain an intimate connection to the earth and resist mountaintop removal
hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging 32 - 33) 

As we work to redeem nature ... we can see is a landscape of destruction. 

1AC

If anyone has any questions my email is teter.natalie@gmail.com and facebook works too. The Sylvia Wynter stuff can be difficult and I am available to talk about her writing. 

Poetics access the realms of consciousness that were penned up on reservations as Western Man colonized the world.
Wynter 76 (Sylvia, chair of African-American Studies at Stanford, “Ethno or Socio Poetics,” Alcheringa 2:2, p. 83)
The idea of the savage black, writes Cesaire, was a European invention...To quote Orwell, and to paraphrase: ALL MEN WERE EQUAL BUT WESTERN MAN WAS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

What you do not see does not exist. The moment, like a raft, carries you on the luminous surface of its round disc, and you deny the abyss that lies about you. The future citadel, thanks to my son, will open its wide windows on the abyss, from which will come great gusts of shadow upon our shriveled bodies, our haggard brows. With all my soul, I wish for this opening. In the city which is being bron such should be our work all of us, Hindues, Chinese, South Americans, Negroes, Arabs, all of us, awkward and pitiful, we the underdeveloped, who feel ourselves to be clumsy in a world of perfect mechanical adjustment.

Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure 1963 

Estrangement from the natural organic environment allows the earth to be seen as harvestable commodities, justifying violence. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 25 – 26) 

Earth is a diverse ecosystem...A spledorous spread of rolling hills and green mountains mirrored nowhere in the world is being systematically destroyed so that an unsustainable way of life in our cities may continue.” 

Apathy for this destruction is generated by imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, creating a sacrifice zone where communities and the earth are disposable. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 29 -30) 

Unlike other Appalachian tour groups who have visited at Morgan’s home, we were not able to make it up the mountain in our bus...While Walker is talking about the fate of black folk, her words speak to the human condition in our culture, especially to the lives exploited and oppressed people of all colors. 

A development telos rationalizes reformating Appalachian mountains and people to be more suitable for the enactment of capital. 
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

The idea that humans have the power .... and MTR offers the chance to fix it. 

This telos configures Western systems of knowledge production that are not objective but culture specific. 
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The major proposal ... out of our own present hegemonic mode of rationality 

Because the epistemology of development orders state politics, we cannot solve for the impacts by working within the present system
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

If we see ourselves today ... the challenge is now evident.
 

By delinking from the coloniality of the topic, the affirmative engages in epistemic disobedience to create access to the liminal space. An epistemological revolution is necessary. 
Mingolo 2011(Walter. Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.) 

It was necessary, Quijano asserted...to spatial sites of struggles and building rather than to a new temporality within the same space (from Greece, to Rome, to Paris, to London, to Washington DC).

By positioning ourselves in the space of liminality, we can reveal new knowledge of oppressive orders
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The paradox here is that the category of liminality...can provide the data able to tell us how each such order must be known, perceived, and acted on. 

Because white heteropatriarchal colonialism constructs the material conditions of MTR, resistance through embodying liminality results in decolonization materially and epistemically.
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

Clearly, it is the story of the modern man ... hegemonic identity formations that support these practices. 

Only through decolonizing our minds will we be able to sustain an intimate connection to the earth and resist mountaintop removal
hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging 32 - 33) 

As we work to redeem nature ... we can see is a landscape of destruction. 

1AC

If anyone has any questions my email is teter.natalie@gmail.com and facebook works too. The Sylvia Wynter stuff can be difficult and I am available to talk about her writing. 

Poetics access the realms of consciousness that were penned up on reservations as Western Man colonized the world.
Wynter 76 (Sylvia, chair of African-American Studies at Stanford, “Ethno or Socio Poetics,” Alcheringa 2:2, p. 83)
The idea of the savage black, writes Cesaire, was a European invention...To quote Orwell, and to paraphrase: ALL MEN WERE EQUAL BUT WESTERN MAN WAS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

What you do not see does not exist. The moment, like a raft, carries you on the luminous surface of its round disc, and you deny the abyss that lies about you. The future citadel, thanks to my son, will open its wide windows on the abyss, from which will come great gusts of shadow upon our shriveled bodies, our haggard brows. With all my soul, I wish for this opening. In the city which is being bron such should be our work all of us, Hindues, Chinese, South Americans, Negroes, Arabs, all of us, awkward and pitiful, we the underdeveloped, who feel ourselves to be clumsy in a world of perfect mechanical adjustment.

Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure 1963 

Estrangement from the natural organic environment allows the earth to be seen as harvestable commodities, justifying violence. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 25 – 26) 

Earth is a diverse ecosystem...A spledorous spread of rolling hills and green mountains mirrored nowhere in the world is being systematically destroyed so that an unsustainable way of life in our cities may continue.” 

Apathy for this destruction is generated by imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, creating a sacrifice zone where communities and the earth are disposable. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 29 -30) 

Unlike other Appalachian tour groups who have visited at Morgan’s home, we were not able to make it up the mountain in our bus...While Walker is talking about the fate of black folk, her words speak to the human condition in our culture, especially to the lives exploited and oppressed people of all colors. 

A development telos rationalizes reformating Appalachian mountains and people to be more suitable for the enactment of capital. 
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

The idea that humans have the power .... and MTR offers the chance to fix it. 

This telos configures Western systems of knowledge production that are not objective but culture specific. 
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The major proposal ... out of our own present hegemonic mode of rationality 

Because the epistemology of development orders state politics, we cannot solve for the impacts by working within the present system
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

If we see ourselves today ... the challenge is now evident.
 

By delinking from the coloniality of the topic, the affirmative engages in epistemic disobedience to create access to the liminal space. An epistemological revolution is necessary. 
Mingolo 2011(Walter. Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.) 

It was necessary, Quijano asserted...to spatial sites of struggles and building rather than to a new temporality within the same space (from Greece, to Rome, to Paris, to London, to Washington DC).

By positioning ourselves in the space of liminality, we can reveal new knowledge of oppressive orders
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The paradox here is that the category of liminality...can provide the data able to tell us how each such order must be known, perceived, and acted on. 

Because white heteropatriarchal colonialism constructs the material conditions of MTR, resistance through embodying liminality results in decolonization materially and epistemically.
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

Clearly, it is the story of the modern man ... hegemonic identity formations that support these practices. 

Only through decolonizing our minds will we be able to sustain an intimate connection to the earth and resist mountaintop removal
hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging 32 - 33) 

As we work to redeem nature ... we can see is a landscape of destruction. 

1AC

If anyone has any questions my email is teter.natalie@gmail.com and facebook works too. The Sylvia Wynter stuff can be difficult and I am available to talk about her writing. 

Poetics access the realms of consciousness that were penned up on reservations as Western Man colonized the world.
Wynter 76 (Sylvia, chair of African-American Studies at Stanford, “Ethno or Socio Poetics,” Alcheringa 2:2, p. 83)
The idea of the savage black, writes Cesaire, was a European invention...To quote Orwell, and to paraphrase: ALL MEN WERE EQUAL BUT WESTERN MAN WAS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

What you do not see does not exist. The moment, like a raft, carries you on the luminous surface of its round disc, and you deny the abyss that lies about you. The future citadel, thanks to my son, will open its wide windows on the abyss, from which will come great gusts of shadow upon our shriveled bodies, our haggard brows. With all my soul, I wish for this opening. In the city which is being bron such should be our work all of us, Hindues, Chinese, South Americans, Negroes, Arabs, all of us, awkward and pitiful, we the underdeveloped, who feel ourselves to be clumsy in a world of perfect mechanical adjustment.

Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure 1963 

Estrangement from the natural organic environment allows the earth to be seen as harvestable commodities, justifying violence. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 25 – 26) 

Earth is a diverse ecosystem...A spledorous spread of rolling hills and green mountains mirrored nowhere in the world is being systematically destroyed so that an unsustainable way of life in our cities may continue.” 

Apathy for this destruction is generated by imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, creating a sacrifice zone where communities and the earth are disposable. 

hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging. pg 29 -30) 

Unlike other Appalachian tour groups who have visited at Morgan’s home, we were not able to make it up the mountain in our bus...While Walker is talking about the fate of black folk, her words speak to the human condition in our culture, especially to the lives exploited and oppressed people of all colors. 

A development telos rationalizes reformating Appalachian mountains and people to be more suitable for the enactment of capital. 
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

The idea that humans have the power .... and MTR offers the chance to fix it. 

This telos configures Western systems of knowledge production that are not objective but culture specific. 
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The major proposal ... out of our own present hegemonic mode of rationality 

Because the epistemology of development orders state politics, we cannot solve for the impacts by working within the present system
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

If we see ourselves today ... the challenge is now evident.
 

By delinking from the coloniality of the topic, the affirmative engages in epistemic disobedience to create access to the liminal space. An epistemological revolution is necessary. 
Mingolo 2011(Walter. Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.) 

It was necessary, Quijano asserted...to spatial sites of struggles and building rather than to a new temporality within the same space (from Greece, to Rome, to Paris, to London, to Washington DC).

By positioning ourselves in the space of liminality, we can reveal new knowledge of oppressive orders
Wynter 96 (Sylvia, "Is Development a purely Empirical concept or also teleological? A perspective from We the Underdeveloped" Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa) 

The paradox here is that the category of liminality...can provide the data able to tell us how each such order must be known, perceived, and acted on. 

Because white heteropatriarchal colonialism constructs the material conditions of MTR, resistance through embodying liminality results in decolonization materially and epistemically.
Scott 2010 (Rebecca, Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields, pg 83-84) 

Clearly, it is the story of the modern man ... hegemonic identity formations that support these practices. 

Only through decolonizing our minds will we be able to sustain an intimate connection to the earth and resist mountaintop removal
hooks 2009 (bell, Belonging 32 - 33) 

As we work to redeem nature ... we can see is a landscape of destruction.