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The 1ac begins with a voice clip from an interview between Khalief Browder, his lawyer and Marc Lamont Hill from HuffPost Live on December 3, 2013. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlSqk_pfbA. The song that follows is Common - A letter to the free.

1AC Round 2 Blake

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Black people are targeted by plea bargaining. The racism inherent in the system is unequivocal. Borchetta and Fontier 17

Borchetta and Fontier 17 ~Jenn Rolnick and Alice, Deputy Director of the Impact Litigation Practice at the Bronx Defenders and Managing Director of the Criminal Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders, "When Race Tips the Scales in Plea Bargaining", Published by the Marshall Project, https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/10/23/when-race-tips-the-scales-in-plea-bargaining, Date Published: October 23, Date Accessed: December 8, 2017

Countless people like this young man face tremendous pressure to accept a prosecutor's plea offer

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, and his lawyer can investigate his case and negotiate a better plea.

The 1AC is a performance of WAKE WORK, the process of thinking about our RELATION TO THE DEAD that allows a process of MOURNING through ritual and provides a PRAXIS for understanding THE HOLD, how it REPEATS IT into the present, and for fostering resistance in THIS SPACE. The ROB is who best performatively and methodologically liberates black people.

Sharpe (Christina, Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, also published by Duke University Press) 2016 (In the Wake: Blackness and Being, Duke University Press, Pg.20-22, C.A.)

What, then, are the ongoing coordinates and effects of the wake, and

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and do work that I have not here been able to imagine or anticipate

Revealing the necessary black death to the world allows for a mourning that folds the system on top of itself. Rankine 15

CLAUDIA RANKINE JUNE 22, 2015 Claudia Rankine is a professor of English at Pomona College. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including, most recently, "Citizen."

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/magazine/the-condition-of-black-life-is-one-of-mourning.html

The spectacle of the shooting suggests an event out of time,

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the dead body as an object that satisfies an illicit desire. Perhaps this is where Dylann Storm Roof stepped in.)

Change cannot happen in a system still rooted in the idea that black lives are fungible – the mourning of the aff is a prerequisite to successful political dialogue and decision making Rankine 2

CLAUDIA RANKINE JUNE 22, 2015 Claudia Rankine is a professor of English at Pomona College. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including, most recently, "Citizen."

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/magazine/the-condition-of-black-life-is-one-of-mourning.html

Regardless of the wishes of these mothers — mothers of men like Brown,

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Grief, then, for these deceased others might align some of us, for the first time, with the living.

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The political system is predicated on the oppression of blacks. From slavery to Reconstruction to the convict leasing system political hope is a LIE

Warren '15 (Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)

Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes even more apparent and

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death become the premiere vehicles of polit- ical perfection and social maturation.

Claiming that we must defend solutions because there are no alternatives creates an action/inaction binary that conceals the suffering that so-called solutions cause

Warren '15 (Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)

Black nihilism is a "demythifying" practice, in the Nietzschean vein, that

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" is nothing more than the repetition and disavowal of the problem itself.

Political solutions exist in an unrealized future creating a "trick of time" as black folk are told that it will get better even though it never does. Hoping for a better future conceals evidence of failure

Warren '15 (Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)

The solution relies on what we might call the "trick of time" to

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hope, just the illusion of a different order in a future tense.

Plea bargaining exacerbates the racial biases that exists within the criminal justice system and facilitate racial stratification in sentencing

Savitsky '12 (Douglas, Center for the Study of Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Cornell University, "Is plea bargaining a rational choice? Plea bargaining as an engine of racial stratification and overcrowding in the United States prison system", Rationality and Society 24(2) 131–167) DM

Innocent white defendants have little outside incentive to plea bargain. A white defendant who

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plea, a black defendant is comparatively likely to accept a worse bargain.

As black people are told that it will get better if they just struggle more, political hope creates ressentiment, torment without relief, and the black body continues to suffer

Warren '15 (Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)

It is easy to disparage behavior that runs contrary to the dictates of a bio

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the body must speak the existential crisis that gets muted within humanist grammars.

Because the entire structure of society depends on the suffering of black people, political hope creates a vicious cycle of never-ending torment

Warren '15 (Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)

Throughout this essay, I have argued that the Politics of hope preserve meta-

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were—and to end the cycle of insanity that political hope perpetuates.

Impossible demands perfect the politics of hope because it is a futurity that does not exist

Warren '15 (Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)

This brilliant analysis compels us to rethink political rationality and the value in "means

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it is unassailable and irrefutable because it is the object of political fantasy.

The alternative is to be a political apostate-the only coherent action is self-excommunication from the Political. We must refuse to place our faith in a system that continues to fail so many

Warren '15 (Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)

Political Apostasy For West and Brogdon, nihilism is a spiritual-psychic disorder that

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symbolic as inherently wicked and rejects it both as critique and spiritual practice.