Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: Lauzon, Meiches, Woodruff

Signifying CP

The plan is in STANDARD ENGLISH.  This is not "racially neutral" – it is WHITE in a way that we can decode

Shangol 9 http://blackademics.org/2009/09/27/code-switching-identity-performance-the-politics-of-talking-black/-http://blackademics.org/2009/09/27/code-switching-identity-performance-the-politics-of-talking-black/lokun Shangol Olugbala, better known by his performance name of D. Noble, is a nationally renown poet/spoken-word artist that believes poetry and all art possess the potential to birth and nurture progressive change. Noble’s work is spiritually rooted and primarily explores the complex nuances of the Black experience and their larger social, political and economic implications. Besides writing poetry, essays and publishing in independent periodicals, D. Noble is also an avid reader. He plans to transform his studies/practices of cultural nationalism, critical reading and writing into a permanent career as a higher learning professor, teaching and lecturing on/about African American literature. He is currently working on his Masters of Arts (MA) in African American Literature at North Carolina A%26T State University and will pursue his doctorate once he has achieved his MA. D. Noble is affiliated with the performing arts collective, Righteous A.I.M. and can be experienced featuring with them or by himself at numerous venues all along the East Coast. He has been invited to perform and facilitate residencies, lectures and workshops at numerous universities, high schools, middle schools, churches, mosques and other grassroots community events and initiatives. D. Noble has shared stages with other nationally renown, HBO Def Poets: Terry Creech, Malik Salaam, Amir Sulaiman, Butta Fly Soul and Black Ice. Past performance highlights include opening up for KRS ONE, Floetry, The Last Poets and Kanye West. D. Noble has performed three times at the National Black Theatre Festival with the Cosby’s Show Malcolm Jamal Warner and HBO Def Poet, Helena D. Lewis. He has had the prestigious honors of being invited to perform at the fifth annual National Historically Black College %26 University Think Tank Symposium hosted at North Carolina A%26T State University in Greensboro, NC; performing at the 20 Year Anniversary of the MOVE bombing and Free Mumia Rally in Philadelphia, PA; and being a featured artist alongside bestselling and award winning authors, Patrice Gaines

The plan is NUCLEAR ENGLISH – a supposedly CULTURE FREE LANGUAGE that ultimately aims to STAMP OUT accenting and inflection.  This ideology of assimilative "neutral speak" is part and parcel of global imperialism

Apter 01Public Culture 13.1 (2001) 65-80.(Emily Apter teaches in the departments of French and comparative literature at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she is also chair of comparative literature)

The 1ac relies on objective legal discourse that is burdensome on minority students. Their discourse proceeds with the expectation that students will learn to perform the standard mode of legal reasoning and embrace the objective perspectivelessness of traditional political engagement. This perspective assumes a white worldview forcing Black and Brown students to assume colorless legal analysis separating them from their cultural identity.

Crenshaw – Professor UCLA- 1994- Kimberle Williams; Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies- Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies- FOREWORD: TOWARD A RACE-CONSCIOUS PEDAGOGY IN LEGAL EDUCATION - Fall, 1994- 4 S. Cal. Rev. L. %26 Women’s Stud. 33- lexis

Legal discourse becomes the standard, prevailing, and only sanctioned perspective from which to understand and articulate intellectual descriptions of policy. Standardizing discursive practices act as a method of policing language and language thinking practices. Instead what is needed is a strategy from and against which to mark difference. A method for avoiding universality and univocallity is necessary to preserve different discourse communities or risk discursive genocide.

Francis-2007 Toni P. Francis- (University of South Florida- Scholar Commons- Graduate School Theses and Dissertations USF Graduate School- 6-1-2007- Identity politics: Postcolonial theory and writing program instruction- TF online-)

We signify upon the plan in order to promote difference and disrupt the uniform interpretation of what the plan is intended to mean. Western aesthetics assumes an accurate interpretation, a correct meaning of words that promotes ignorance of black vernacular expressions leading to a mythification of black culture as being violent. Signifyin(g) is a form of political engagement that mobilizes questions around larger power relations. It is a method of teaching, playing into the mistaking of meaning, a serious "unseriousness" that can generate political expression.

Potter, Professor of English @ Rhode Island College, 1995¶ Russell A.; Writer for HardC.O.R.E; "Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism"; Pg: 82-84

Active REAPPROPRIATION of the resolution meaning is the KEY internal link to change DEAD WHITE language to BLACK POLITICALLY ACTIVE exercise in FREEDOM.  The reassertion of agency demands that WE SPEAK LANGUAGE instead of letting LANGUAGE SPEAK US

Gates 9 Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader. By Maria Damon, Ira Livingston. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."

OUR SIGNIFYING ON THE RESOLUTION IS AN EXAMPLE OF OPACITY. THIS IS STRATEGY OF RESISTANCE TO THE FORCES OF THE ACADEMY AND THE WHITE WORLD THAT DEMAND WE MAKE OURSELVES VISIBLE AND KNOWN TO POWER.

Reeves; Professor of English Literature @ UIC, 2012 Roger William; "Black Western Thought: Toward A Theory Of The Black Citizen-Object" PG: 86-88

The effects of OPACITY are achieved by an ALTERNATIVE discourse that REJECTS the reterritorialization of BUREAUCRATIC and LEGAL language – the language of the PLAN

Brown 5 http://www.forumjournal.org/site/issue/01/william-christopher-brown
William Christopher Brown, Medieval literature, particularly chronicles and medieval intellectuals, Gramsci, Foucault, Marx, postcolonial theory, queer theory, post-structuralism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Indiana University

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: Lauzon, Meiches, Woodruff

Case

White supremacy is the root cause of environmental problems. The Logic of control rooted in control over people of color is extend to control over the environment

Wise 2K6 ~Tim, Totally bought Ben Crossan dinner one time, "Paleness as Pathology: The Future of Racism and Anti-Racism In America," LIP Magazine http://www.lipmagazine.org/~~timwise/palepathology-http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/palepathology. html~

DISMANTLING RACISM IS THE ONLY MEANS TO SOLVE WARMING - INEFFECTIVE strategies to reduce CO2 emissions INCREMENTALLY have become POPULAR because they DO NOT DISTURB the racial hierarchy that sustains the US structure.  Addressing the ROOT CAUSE of climate change REQUIRES a DISMANTLING of the patterns that PROTECT racial hierarchy and PRESERVE white privilege.

MANDELL Dir of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Fair Housing Project 2k8
Bekah-A.B., Vassar College, J.D., Boston College Law School, Father Rober Drinan Family Fund Public Interest Fellow; Racial Reification and Global Warming:  A Truly Inconvenient Truth; BOSTON COLLEGE THIRD WORLD LAW JOURNAL, Spring, 28 B.C. Third World L.J. 289

Scientism is the crucial enabling condition for racism and violent colonialism

IVAN 95  University of California, Santa Barbara eui9ias@mvs.oac.ucla.edu  Postmodern Culture v.5 n.3 (May, 1995) pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu-pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Ivan Strenski is Holstein Family and Community Professor of Religious Studies. He has studied and traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico and South Asia, and has maintained close contact with scholars in those regions of the world. Although a US native, he took his BA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from the University of Birmingham (England), followed by post-doctoral study at Yale. http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.595/review-7.595-http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.595/review-7.595

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: Lauzon, Meiches, Woodruff

THE "VEIW FROM NOWHERE" THAT PHILOSPHICAL DISCOURSE FOSTERS CANNOT THEORIZE THE BLACK BODY OR HOPE TO SOLVE FOR THE HARMS OF WHITE SUPREMACY

Yancy 05 Journal of Speculative Philosophy 19.4 (2005) 215-241

A.  Link: The instrumental affirmation of the resolution reifies politics’ precautionary and preemptive relationship to the future through which various forms of racism are configured

Baldwin 12 ~Dr. Andrew Baldwin- Lecturer at Durham University- "Whiteness and futurity: Towards a research agenda"-Progress in Human Geography, 36(2), 172–187~

Cole and Foster- 2001- Luke Cole is director of the Center on Race, Poverty %26 the Environment in San Francisco. Sheila Foster is the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law at Fordham University. - FROM THE GROUND UP ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT-p. 103-134

We don’t seek to completely destroy Western language or thought, we inject our bodies and knowledge into this space to prevent its homogenizing tendencies. Our incorporation of the plan into our local knowledge tradition is a first step create debate as a space to negotiation trust between distinct intellectual traditions rather than violently erasing it the name of consensus

Noel Gough - Deakin University, Victoria, Australia – 2002- Thinking/acting locally/globally: Western science and environmental education in a global knowledge economy  - International Journal of Science Education (Special Edition: Environmental Education
and Science Education), 24 (11) 2002, pp. 1217-1237.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: Lauzon, Meiches, Woodruff

Energy production is RACIALIZED. Focus on production obscures the racist root cause – overcoming white supremacy is precondition to solve

Mandell, ’8
(Bekah "Racial Reification and Global Warming: A Truly Inconvenient Truth" 4-1-8 http:~/~/lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046andcontext=cgi?article=1046andcontext=twlj Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 28 Issue 2 accessed: 10-27-12 mlb)

Nealon, Jeffrey, Refraining: Becoming Black 98 symploke 6.1 (1998) 83-86

Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard DT | Judge:
All cards are the exact same 

The 1NC K was basically anti-politics. They argued that the aff's model of debate leads to never taking any action to affect real world change, and that instead we just feel good about the ballot itself, as though we feel like it did something in the real world (almost identical to our policymaking/spectatorship DA).

They argued instead that we should engage in grassroots institutions like the Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, which is a Baltimore-based non-profit that tries to support minority rights as well as encourages debater participation in the Baltimore UDL.

Their role of the ballot was about changing the way we orient the knowledge produced by the community to help minorities and those groups affected by the aff's impacts. They said bottom up solved best, and talked about some empirical things the LBS had done, though they were still more theoretical than empirical.

1AC - IFR Warming K aff
1NC - Signifying K, case
2NC - K
1NR - K (perms)
2NR - K