Tournament: Every Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: All other rounds | Judge:
Burn It Down
your honor
since i’ve been convicted of murder
and have taken time to digest
just what that means
after noting what it means to my family
and how it affects people who read the newspapers
and all
i see now that i’ve made a terrible mistake!
and didn’t approach this trial
in a respectful, deliberate or thoughtful manner
didn’t take advantage of the best legal advice
and based my actions on irrelevant matters
which i can see now in a much more sober mind
had nothing to do with this case
i must have been legally insane thinking about:
the twenty five murders of children in atlanta since
Wayne Williams’ capture
the recent murder of a man in boston by the police
the recent murders of two in chicago by the police
the shooting of a five-year-old little boy in suburban california
the lynching in alabama
the mob murder of a transit worker in brooklyn
the murders of fourteen women in boston
feeling that this is evidence of something
and that there must
be a lesson in all of this—I thought
murder was legal
- that was Kuwasi Balagoon’s performance before he was sentenced to life in prison
The only ethical demand available to modern politics is that of the Slave and the
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the antagonism between Settler and Savage, Master and Slave.
Wilderson 2010
Frank B.Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. pages 1-5
in New York there was a Black woman who used to stand outside the gate
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foundation of the close reading of feature films and political theory that follows.
While the afterlife of slavery is far from an abstraction in the lived reality of blackness, recourse to the sociological empirics of suffering already codifies the category of “exploitation” as the base grammar of suffering, ignoring the gratuitousness of anti-black violence and enshrining the call for more public policy as the limit point of our revolutionary demands. This elides the way in which civil society is parasitic on The Middle Passage and thus how Humanity itself can only be constituted in opposition to the fundamentally anti-Human position of the slave. It is this libidinal economy of anti-blackness which exists as the condition of possibility for the violence of the world.
Wilderson ‘10
Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P12-13
Regarding the Black position, some might ask why, after claims successfully made on
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split occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer
The ignorability of the white supremacist structures that are in place allow for the perpetual subjugation and torture of minorities
Martinot and Sexton ‘03 Steve and Jared, Steve is a lecturer at San Francisco State University in the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs Jared is Associate Professor African American Studies School of Humanities Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies School of Humanities at UC Irvine Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies, “The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy, Social Identities, Volume 9, Number 2, 2003 p.171-172
They prowl, categorising and profiling, often turning those profiles into murderous violence
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before the enormity of the usual, of the business of civil procedures.
The only alternative is an unflinching paradigmatic analysis that calls for the burning down of America – not for the sole purpose of burning America but primarily because it breeds a new form of knowledge production based on the freedom of the slave
Farley 2005
("Perfecting Slavery" B.A., University of Virginia, J.D., Harvard Law School, Prof. Farley specializes in Constitutional Law January 2005)
What is to be done? Two hundred years ago, when the slaves in
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over-black requires training. It is with education that we begin.
Subjectivity
The judge should vote negative to deny their capacity to act as subjects.
Wilderson ‘10
Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P44-45
Due to the presence of prior existing relations in a world of contemporaries, no
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comes into being and is positioned by an a priori violence of genocide.