Nish+Neelakandan+and+Ryan+James



“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe” ― [|Frantz Fanon] = = =__CONTACT:__= 2A: Ryan James [rejames@mcdonogh.org] 2N: Nish Neel-Kandan [ngneelakandan@mcdonogh.org, 410-917-0614]

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__Part 1 is The Exposition__
In the immediate aftermath of the police shooting of AND We cannot understand Asian American history without being aware of the complex racial history of the United States.
 * Lynch 14 ** [Grace Hwang Lynch is a San Francisco Bay Area based writer and journalist focused on race relations and culture. Her work has been featured on PBS, Salon, MSNBC, and various online journals; “As an Asian American, I Care About Ferguson and Race Relations”, August 22, 2014; REJ]

__Part 2 is The Resolution__
[performance]

__Part 3 is Afro Asia__
Several days ago, a Chinese friend and I were discussing the protests in Baltimore that erupted in response to the death of resident Freddie Gray AND “I feel grateful for this opportunity, but it’s like they pay for us to come to a place where no one wants us to be.”
 * The inherent lack of contact and consciousness between blacks and Chinese has allowed for the transition of unconscionable curiosity to overt racism, false consciousness, and widespread xenophobia. **
 * Rothschild 15 ** [Viola; Fulbright Scholar @ Zhejian University in Jinhua, Pursing research on African entrepreneurs in China; recent graduate of Bowdoin College in the United States; “Online Reaction to Baltimore Protests Reveals Much About Chinese Tension with African Immigrants;” CHINA FILE, May 6; https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/media/online-reaction-baltimore-protests-reveals-much-about-chinese-tension]

What is needed is Afro Asia CONSCIOUSNESS that seeks to FIGHT, COUNTER, and RESIST the faded consciousness and insert scholarship that incites political and cultural resistance against oppression.

PUT AWAY YOUR COALITIONS BAD CARDS—AFRO ASIA is an assault on the establishment. A way to create POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS to challenge dominant norms of white supremacy. TRADITIONAL SOLVENCY is IRRELEVANT—evaluate the round through the intellectual productivity created on the method debate.

This dialectical insertion of our scholarship in the 1AC creates a SHIFT of CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS to allow us to understand Afro-Asian relations, allowing our performance to preserve the POLITICAL and CULTURAL connections between blacks and Chinese to confront white supremacy and global oppression. Mullen & Ho 08 [Bill V. Mullen is the Professor of English and American Studies @ Purdue and teaches courses in African American Literature and Culture; Fred Ho is a political activist and the founder and bandleader of the Afro Asian Music Ensemble; Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans, pp. 13-16; REJ] The urgency for greater Afro Asia solidarity and the general elevation of radical, anti-imperialist leadership and political consciousness has become dire AND connections developed by peoples in the African and Asian diasporas in confronting white supremacy and national oppression.

THUS, WE CALL TO AFFIRM AFRO ASIA, A METHOD TO PROVIDE A PROPER FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF BLACK AND ASIAN BODIES THROUGH OUR INSERTION OF SCHOLARSHIP AND COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY.


 * The role of the debate is to engage in intellectual dialogue that preserves Afro Asian relations and challenges the broader structure of white supremacy. **


 * The discursive performance of the 1AC is a dialectical insertion of scholarship that exposes the functioning of whiteness that erases Afro-Asian relations, making VISIBLE the true ALLIANCE and COLLECTIVE STRUGGLE against white supremacy, and disrupting the traditional framework of diplomatic engagement that allows us to ANALYZE the systemic causes for modern political complexities under the resolution that authorizes the manipulation of RACE and NATIONALIST DIVISIONS. It is the CONVERSATION and the INTELLECTUAL DISCUSSIONS that are had on the topic that define the way in which white supremacy perpetuates Afro-Asian violence in the modern world. **

Mullen & Ho 08 [Bill V. Mullen is the Professor of English and American Studies @ Purdue and teaches courses in African American Literature and Culture; Fred Ho is a political activist and the founder and bandleader of the Afro Asian Music Ensemble; Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans, pp. 2-5; REJ] Fred himself came of age during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and he claims that his identity as Asian/Chinese American was ignited by the upsurge of the Black Power movemen AND paved by the authors represented in this book.
 * The 1AC methodology exposes the INDIFFERENCES from the LINKAGES, CONECTIONS, and CROSS-CULTURE INTERACTIONS, to the COMPLEXITIES, CONTRADICTIONS, and CONFLICTS between black and Asian populations in the U.S. and China. **

I am Asian-American. I believe that Black lives matter. AND sacrifices of the Black community. I am Asian-American. I believe that Black lives matter.
 * AFRO ASIA is a call for supporting scrutiny and criticism of a system that has perpetuated Afro-Asian violence in history. A support for a stand in front of the many who FOOLISHLY believe that America has their best interest at hand. It is the discussion, making people uncomfortable, speaking truth, challenging systematic oppression, and refusing to assimilate into an anti-black framework of discussion that embodies a POLITICS OF RESPECTABILITY. **
 * Ng 15 ** [Kelvin Ng is a write for the ColumbiaSpectator who works with All Women's Action Society and AWARE Singapore and forefronts discussions of Asian identity in relation to Anti-Black violence; 11-20-2015, "Asian America, address anti-Blackness," Columbia Daily Spectator, http://columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2015/11/20/asian-america-address-anti-blackness, Nish]

Mills 97 [Charles Mills is a Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy @ Northwestern University, //Racial Contract//] White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world AND Contract talk is, after all, the political lingua franca of our times.
 * The dialectical insertion of scholarship in the 1AC is the critical resistance to the GLOBAL POLITICAL SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY. Afro Asia provides a way to disrupt, redefine, and CHALLENGE the global white political philosophy, beyond borders. We must recognize the POLITICAL SYSTEM of WHITE SUPREMACY. **

Cultural Diplomacy argues that today, more than ever before, culture has a vital role to play in international relations. This stems from AND Online strategies should reflect the full range of possible contributions to cultural diplomacy.
 * We advocate for CULTURAL DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT that has a vital role to play in international relations over standard government-to-government forms of diplomacy, especially with emerging powers such as China. This allows us to address cultural conflicts and anti-blackness through Afro-Asia’s intellectual productivity and political consciousness that cannot be accomplished with USFG-instituted policies. **
 * Bound, et. al. 07 ** [Kirsten Bound leads on international innovation research with a team that examines new global trends and practices in innovation, with an emphasis on China, India, Brazil and Malaysia, Rachel Briggs is the Director of the charity Hostage UK and a security expert working on security and foreign policy, acting as the Director of Research and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, John Holden is a freelance writer, speaker, and cultural commentator, Samuel Jones is Head of Culture at British think-tank Demos (Demos think-tank authors); “Culture is a central component of international relations. It’s time to unlock its full potential…”, pp. 11-14; REJ]

THE BREAK 1AC:
It has never been OK to interrupt white supremacy as Black people have been told to BE PATIENT while Black womn are raped, homes have been bombed, be PATIENT while Black bodies have been lynched or incarcerated while babies go without breastmilk, BE PATIENT and couch protest in the pretty package of respectability, stay within the confines of norms and procedures that may never endorse the right time to call out BLACK SLAUGHTER.

As white people avert responsibility, blaming victims while simultaneously castigating those who dissent in order to plead for Black life now is just not the right time. It was not OK for Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth nor Harriet Jacobs.

And then, the BREAK.

A call for supporting a certain form of scrutiny and criticism ** that confronts this enduring legacy and forces conversation. Support for a stand in front of the many who FOOLISHLY believe that America has their best interest at hand. It is the disruption, making people uncomfortable, speaking truth and challenging systematic oppression that formulates the perfect strategy. It is time for the interruption, the disruption, it’s time that BLACK LIVES MATTER. ** Seattle Black Feminists 15 [“Any Time is the Right Time to Disrupt White Supremacy: Thoughts on Westlake, Historical Leegacies, and Supporting Black Women”, August 2015; https://seattleblackfeminists.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/any-time-is-the-right-time-to-disrupt-white-supremacy-thoughts-on-westlake-historical-legacies-and-supporting-black-women/ ; REJ] I came across an article written by the Sistah Vegan today, and I think that more AND historical legacy of racism and anti-Blackness, then I recommend that you back the fuq up.

WE CALL FOR THE INTERRUPTION OF THE NORMS OF DEBATE.

INTERRUPT the politics of respectability that dictate comfortable conversations through topical versions of the AFF and endorse a fiated simulated plan action so that the negative can be a well informed opponent. INTERRUPT the predictable, limited conversation of U.S. engagement with China that provides for better decision making and guides our critical thoughts so that we can become RESPECTABLE citizens in a fledging democracy.

WE CALL FOR THE INTERRUPTION OF U.S. DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH CHINA.

THE UNAMED SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY IS SERVED UP THROUGH USFG RESTRICTIVE POLICIES IMPLEMENTED IN THE ARENA OF DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT WITH CHINA.

The history of U.S. diplomatic and economic engagement with China stems from a history of selective immigration laws that has propped up the myth of the model minority. The history of U.S. engagement policies implemented by the USFG can be traced to the Nationality Act in 1790 which targeted Chinese in border control to only allow an integration of successes of Chinese to immigration reforms in 1965. These reforms set the legal foundation for the role of Chinese immigrants with an aim of enhancing America’s international political and economic agenda.

WE MUST UNDERSCORE DEBATES AND DIALOGUE REGARDING IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIVE AND SELECTIVE POLICIES BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHINA TO UNDERSTAND THE MYTH OF THE MODEL MINORITY. Hsu 15 [Madeline Y. Hsu, Ph.D. served as Director of the Center for Asian American Studies 2006-2014 and is currently an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin; “The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority”, 2015, Princeton University Press; pp. 5-11; REJ] Under clear skies on July 3, 1986, in a ceremony broadcast around the AND prioritizing family reunification, employability, and refugees with some consideration for investors.

WE INTERRUPT THE MYTH OF THE MODEL MINORITY.

The engagement of U.S. and China and the UPHOLDING of the myth of the model minority is a very successful TOOL of white supremacy. The resonating message is that “if Asians can succeed, why can’t blacks?” which ignores the system of chattel slavery and evolution of blacks in the U.S., leaving blacks strictly to blame to their hardships and obscure the TRUE REALITY of ATNI-BLACKNESS.

This year’s resolution allows us to INTERRUPT and BREAK from dominant norms that silence the killing of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man by Peter Liang, a Chinese police officer, with the myth of the model minority justifying the death. Our consciousness under white supremacy has constructed internalized racism that has taught individuals that black people somehow deserve the violence inflected upon them.

Yang-Stevens & Pham 16 [Kat Yang-Stevens is a queer gender femme and first generation Chinese Am, they are a writer, educator, organizer and and cultural creator who creates and facilitates original teaching materials and workshops; Alex-Quan Pham is a Vietnamese queer, gender non-conforming femme warrior; “Akai Gurley the "Thug," Peter Liang the "Rookie Cop" and the Model Minority Myth”; February 26, 2016; http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34988-akai-gurley-the-thug-peter-liang-the-rookie-cop-and-the-model-minority-myth; REJ] A popular image of Asians, particularly East Asians, in the US is the model minority myth AND power structures - of which the "justice" system is one of the highest order.
 * This approach IGNORES the lived experience of the black body and INVALIDATES the ways in which black bodies are positioned in society—we must BREAK from the resonating forces in the racialization of society, white supremacy, and anti-blackness. **

Valorie-born in LA and grew up in Crenshaw, PhD in English from UC Berkley and MFA in screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, teaches Afro-Futurism, Literature and Film of the African Diaspora; Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics, and Literature of Incarceration. She has published and performed poetry and blogged for the //Huffington Post//, and is currently writing a book on diasporic vertigo; chapter entitled THE BREAK in Rebecca Walker’s edited book “BLACK COOL: One Thousand Streams of Blackness”; pp. 48-51. The break, that point where a song stops for a drum or other instrumental interlude or improve AND one of the weapons; understanding the poetics and politics of the break is another. Cultural Diplomacy argues that today, more than ever before, culture has a vital role to play in international relations. AND Online strategies should reflect the full range of possible contributions to cultural diplomacy.
 * We endorse the resolution question as A BREAK OF WHITE SUPREMACY that challenges the STRUCTURE where ASSUMPTIONS are OVERTURNED breaking patterns and NORMS of seemingly FIXED RELATIONS—this gives birth to PROGESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE DIVERSE DIALOGUE. We must understand the POETICS and POLITICS of the BREAK. The role of debate is to engage in intellectual dialogue that BREAKS pedagogical norms and procedures that attempt to limit discussion of oppression to respectable boundaries. **
 * THOMAS **** Assc. Professor of Africana studies and English @ Pomona College in Claremont **** 2k12 **
 * The break is a performative form of CULTURAL DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT that has a vital role to play in international relations over standard government-to-government forms of diplomacy, especially with emerging powers such as China. This allows us to address cultural conflicts and anti-blackness through Afro-Asia’s intellectual productivity and political consciousness that cannot be accomplished with USFG-instituted policies. **
 * Bound, et. al. 07 ** [Kirsten Bound leads on international innovation research with a team that examines new global trends and practices in innovation, with an emphasis on China, India, Brazil and Malaysia, Rachel Briggs is the Director of the charity Hostage UK and a security expert working on security and foreign policy, acting as the Director of Research and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, John Holden is a freelance writer, speaker, and cultural commentator, Samuel Jones is Head of Culture at British think-tank Demos (Demos think-tank authors); “Culture is a central component of international relations. It’s time to unlock its full potential…”, pp. 11-14; REJ]

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Tentative 1NC stuff:
- Afropessimism - Black Nihilism - Black Materiality - Lacan - PICs without cards - Parametrix - Paradox

Previous 2NR's:
- Afropessimism - Afropessimism + Expenditure PIC - Lacan - Lacan + Paradox - T Libidinal (rest in peace)