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Greater Horn of AfricaThe reduction of military presence is the uidity of whitepolicing. The US grand strategy will withdraw troops from

________ only to give the signal of a enign authority! all to havethose troops replaced y air stri"es and private contractorsand then sent to the lac"est of their enemies #emen andSomalia.Smith$1%(Ashley smith, Smith is a long time contributor to many subversive sources. Smithhas written for the ISR in their 2012 issue “ rayvon !artin an" the #ew $im crow%.

he following can be foun" here& htt'&isreview.orgissue)*obamas+new+im'erialist+strategy-ace" with the growing rivalry with hina an" America/s "iminishe" 'ower in the !i""le ast, the &amaadministration has been com'elle" to ad'ust the grand strategy of gloal

domination . bama still intends for the United States to e, in his wor"s, “the in"is'ensablenation,% the world$s policeman. 3e will therefore continue to pro'ect American power into its tra"itional s'heres of in4uence li5e 6atin America, as well as e7'an" its activity into other areas such as

Africa, for e7am'le, through A()*+&,. +ontrary to lieral self-delusion ! &amais not really cutting the military udget. As he "eclare" at the 8entagon announcement of hisnew 9ui"ance, ver the ne7t ten years, the growth in the defense udget will slow! ut the fact ofthe matter is this& it will still grow, because we have global res'onsibilities that "eman" our lea"ershi'. Infact, the "efense bu"get will still be larger than it was towar" the en" of the :ush a"ministration.;

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The s3ualing over things li"e removal of troops is ut adistraction mechanism from the dispossession of the lac"o'ect. US imperialism and anti-imperialism are ased in anti-lac"ness. The discussion of the A(( crowds out the analysis of slavery and anti-lac"ness.

Se0ton$45(Race, #ation, an" m'ire in a :lac5ene" Forl", $are" Se7ton, 200B, $are" Se7ton isa 'rofessor at al Irvine

ln the consternate" delierations of national security, oGcial an" unoGcial, from thefoun"ing of the repulic to the trum'eting of the new world order, the social control an"crisis management of the lac" population has always 6gured centrally ! even orespecially when matters of emanci'ation or racial e3uality have by no means thefocus of deate . Across the swee' of @.S. history, 'olicing the color line has re>uire" no cre"ible threat ofinvasion, no evi"ence of insurrectionary "esign, no 'roven stoc5'ile of illicit chemical agents or ra"ioactivematerial, no 'articular breach of "omestic or international law, no sensational moral or ethical transgression(though all of these items, real or imagine", have factore" in the relevant "iscourses, 'ublic an" 'rivate. It has onlyre>uire" the 'resence+within the 'olity, economy, culture, an" society+of a so+calle" 'roblem 'eo'le, "welling as

the absence of human 'resence. Fe can note further that the institution of transatlantic racialslavery+whose 'olitical an" economic relations constitute, 'resent tense, the social faricof estern modernity in general, of the Americas in 'articular, an" of the @nite" States mostacutely+cannot e e0plained (away by the ac>uisition of uel+is enaled y an" "e'en"ent on the mostbasic of o'erations& symbolic an" material immobili?ation, the asolute divestment ofsovereignty at the site of the lac" ody& its free"om of movement, its con"itions of labor, its'hysical an" emotional sustenance, its social an" se7ual re'ro"uction, its 'olitical an" cultural re'resentation.

:eyon" its economic utility, this rendering of the lac" as the o'ect of dispossession'ar e7cellence+ob=ect of accumulation, 'rototy'ical commo"ity, ca'tive 4esh+structures in"elibly thehistorical proliferation of modem conceptions of sovereignty that now "ominate'olitical an" legal "iscourse globally an" provide the crucial frames of intelligiility foroth imperialism and anti-imperialism! empire and its discontents. Fith blac5s

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ca'ital of military hero+ ism, etc.+all com'onents of the ty'ical criti>ue of the racism internal to the arme" forcesbut were also "iDerentiate" by the enemies of the @.S. military invasion an" occu'ation. Racially targete"'ro'agan"a a''eale" to the cruel ironies of blac5 military service (ironies alrea"y well 5nown an" articulate" bymi"+century an" oDere" i"eological su''ort to the struggle for free"om, =ustice, an" e>uality that was, at the time,intensifying an" mutating statesi"e as it raise" the galvani?ing cry of :lac5 8ower.

*mperialism is a reproduction of anti-lac" racism. *mperialismas a system pits minorities against each other and forcesindividuals to assimilate into the white system of lac"policing. Any promotion of the imperial system should ere'ected as unethical.;lac"fo00$1<(:lac5fo77 is an avi" twitter writer about race an" racism. :lac5 fo77 has 'uttogether some of the most forwar" statements about anti+blac5ness an" the way itis 'romote" through the American system.

I 5now everything I nee" to 5now when 'eo'le are tal5ing aboutanti-lac" racism

, 'articularly reasons

“why its not so simple% an" why its not as im'ortant or "evastating as we ma5e it out to be, but they onlytal" aout it in reference to ;lac" people in the United States. So what aout the world full of ;lac" people you continue to dehumani7eL hat lets me5now whether its anti+blac5ness you are intereste" in, or "o"ging accountability an" resisting changing your anti+blac5 behavior. :ecause using a straw man of @.S. im'erialism that structurally we have nothing to "o with (I/m nottal5ing about a small minority of blac5 ''l who sli' through the crac5s, in or"er to e7cuse antiblac5 racism can only4y in 1. a @.S. conte7t an" 2.an anti+blac5 one. Allow me to e7'lain. I wont re'eat all of the things I/ve tal5e"

about earlier this wee5M.:ut Again, to understand systems of power, we loo" atframewor"s not at e0ceptions. An" if you want to get really realMIf you want to ta5e a wal5 throughthe 8entagon an" the State Ce'artment. I have been through bothM Asi"e from all the white 'eo'le, Nou will ue to :lac5 'eo'le an" it is not a''ro'riate to bring u' when "iscussinge7cusing your anti+blac5 racism.

There will always e a minority of poc present, but those are things that nee" to beun"erstoo" in the broa"er conte7t of a large SR@@R. his is why you never see me 'ointing to them. It means

little to nothing in the broa"er conte7t of Im'erialism an" what that means. THAT *S HAT*,=>)*A2*S, ?+&2&@*A2*S, *S. hat part of *mperialism is limiting optionsfor poc, ripping them from the conte7t of their culture! removing options !indoctrinating them with its own messages in the asence of all thosethings! providing its own options! and then churning those people in thecogs of the machine. As casualties ! means of production, 'ieces of the 'rison+in"ustrial, com'le7, an" a small minority as the faces and agents of imperialism, etc. 8art of how it operates! while an" after it destroys everything, is selecting a small minority of'eo'le to carry out its agen"a. I also "ont mean to say its com'letely unim'ortant within the 'ro'er conte7t, but forthe 'ur'ose of "iscussing anti+blac5 racism or blaming a collective grou' without that access, its irrelevant. It isintellectually "ishonest to loo5 at this minority of 'eo'le chosen, s'eci


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grou's. I thin5 people need to reali7e that they are so heavily invested in anti-lac" racism! in order to truly really see the lengths that they are going.8eo'le nee" to reali?e that investment an" start to challenge an" "econstruct it before anything will beaccom'lishe". Nou shoul" start to won"er not “hey are always bellyaching, 3ow ba" are those blac5 'eo'le

RA66NL% an" start to won"er “Fhy am i so investe"L% an" follow that stream of thought to its conclusions. Thisis antilac"ness in its est form. An" 'eo'le will get u'set at :lac5 Americans all "ay long as an

e7cuse. ,eanwhile there is an entire world of ;lac" people! of which we are avery small minority! that is eing su'ected to your anti-lac" racism . ;utyou are silent aout them. :ut :lac5 Americans are 'articularly goo" about calling 'eo'le on theirshit, because we have ha" to "evelo' an intimate un"erstan"ing of the matri7 of o''ression, as a means of survivalin the belly of the beast. Fe have "evelo'e" a very s'eci)T ABCA@TAG> 2*@D H>)>E

hiteness perpetuates a system of ause of the lac". Thenormativity of whiteness creates a hyper visiility for lac"s.The result of this hyper visiility is eing received as a odythat is already mar"ed and already dead. The perception ofeing already dead legitimi7es the slaughter of lac" esh.

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in this country "now what it is li"e to e followed while shopping and howlac" men have had the e0perience of /wal"ing across the street andhearing the loc"s clic" on the doors of cars . * have had this e0perience onmany occasions as whites catch sight of me wal"ing past their cars: +lic"!clic"! clic"! clic" . Those clic"s can e deafening . There are times when *want to ecome their oogeyman. * want to pull open the car door and

shout: /Surprise #ou$ve 'ust een car-'ac"ed y a fantasy of your owncreation. @ow get out of the car. The president$s words, 'erha's consigne" to along+ago news cycle now, remain 'owerful& they validate e0periences that lac"s haveundergone in their everyday lives. bama/s voice resonates with those 'hiloso'hical voices(-rant? -anon, for e7am'le that have long attem'te" to "escribe the live" interiority of racial e7'eriences. 3e hasalso "e'loye" the 'ower of narrative autobiogra'hy, which is a signi


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Oimmerman who is in "anger rather, it is rayvon !artin, “the loo5e" at,% who is the target of sus'icion an"'ossible violence. After all, it is rayvon !artin who is wearing the hoo"ie, a 'iece of “raciali?e"% attire thata''arently signiue history of racistvitriol in this country. Net it is one that is 'erha's too late, one alrea"y ren"ere" mute an" inconse>uential by thever"ict of “not guilty.%

Thus the Alt M )e'ect the aN as an continued adherence torevolutionary suicide.

)evolutionary suicide is an idealism to re'ect the ause thatlac" esh is su'ected to. *t is standing up for the

downtrodden! it is freedom to decide what happens to thelac" community *t is an outcry for the relief of police rutality. @ewton$<(#ewton, 3uey 8., 3uey was the foun"er of the :lac5 8anther 'arty in the late B0/searly H0/s. Revolutionary Suici"e. Revise"7'an"e" e". #ew Nor5& 3arcourt :race

$ovanovich, 1KH*. 8rint. 8g. 11B

his is the 'rogram we wrote "own& :R 1KBB :6AE 8A#3R 8ARN 86A-R! A#C 8R9RA! F3A F

FA# F3A F :6IPam on 'a'er+ hat the alternative loo"s li"e 8resente" as the !anifestoto the :lac5 8anthers. 1. e want freedom . e want power to determine thedestiny of our ;lac" +ommunity . Fe believe that :lac5 'eo'le will not be free until we are able to"etermine our "estiny. 2. Fe want full em'loyment for our 'eo'le. Fe believe that the fe"eral government isres'onsible an" obligate" to give every man em'loyment or a guarantee" income. Fe believe that if the white

American businessmen will not give full em'loyment, then the means of production should eta"en from the usinessmen and placed in the community so that thepeople of the community can organi7e and employ all of its people andgive a high standard of living. *. Fe want an end to the roery by the ca'italist ofour ;lac" community. Fe believe that this racist government has robbe" us an" now we are "eman"ingthe over"ue "ebt of forty acres an" two mules. -orty acres an" two mules were 'romise" 100 years ago asrestitution for slave labor an" mass mur"er of :lac5 'eo'le. Fe will acce't the 'ayment in currency which will be"istribute" to our many communities. he 9ermans are now ai"ing the $ews in Israel for the genoci"e of the $ewish


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'eo'le. he 9ermans mur"ere" si7 million $ews. he American racist has ta5en 'art in the slaughter of over ual station to which the laws of nature an" nature/s 9o" entitle them, a "ecent

res'ect to the o'inions of man5in" re>uires that they shoul" "eclare the causes which im'el them to these'aration. Fe hol" these truths to be self+evi"ent, that all men are create" e>ual that they are en"owe" by their

reator with certain un alienable rights that among these are life, liberty, an" the 'ursuit of ha''iness. hat, tosecure these rights! government s are instituted among men! derivingtheir 'ust powers from the consent of the governedO that! whenever anyform of government ecomes destructive of these ends! it is the right ofthe people to alter or to aolish it, an" to institute a new government, laying its foun"ation onsuch 'rinci'les, an" organi?ing its 'owers in such form, as to them shall seem most li5ely to eDect their safety an"ha''iness. 8ru"ence, in"ee", will "ictate that governments long establishe" shoul" not be change" for light an"transient causes an", accor"ingly, all e7'erience hath shown, that man5in" are more "is'ose" to suDer, while evils

are suDerable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustome". :ut, when along train of auses an" usur'ations, 'ursuing invariably the same ob=ect, evinces a design toreduce them under asolute despotism! it is their right, it is their duty! to throw

oN such government! and to provide new guards for their future security .Fith the 'rogram on 'a'er, we set u' the structure of our organi?ation.

To do anything while the lac" esh is still fungile is to ta"epart in an unethical world. Solving the antagonism of the anti-lac" esh is a 1st priority issue when attempting to creategood scholarship.ilderson$14


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(-ran5. :. Fil"erson, Re" Fhite an" blac5, 2010. 8g. BH+B) -ran5 :. Fil"erson is atenure" 'rofessor at the @niversity of alifornia Irvine. 3e has atten"e" the@niversity of olombia where he got a "egree in 'sychology.

&ntological incapacity, I have inferre" an" here state forthright, is theconstituent element of ethics. 8ut another way, one cannot emody capacityand e ! simultaneously, ethical. here there are Slaves it is unethical to efree. he Settler? ,aster$s capacity, I have argue", is a function ofe0ploitation and alienation O and the Slave$s incapacity is elaorated yaccumulation and fungiility . :ut the /Savage is positioned! structurally!y su'ective capacity an" Re", Fhite, U :lac5& inema an" the Structure of @.S.Antagonisms B) ob=ective inca'acity, by sovereignty an" genoci"e, res'ectively. *tis the *ndian$s liminal status in political economy! the manner in whichher?his positionality shuttles etween the incapacity of a genocided o'ectand the capacity of a sovereign su'ect! coupled with the fact that)edness does not overdetermine the /thanatology 8Pudy JI! IQ9 ofliidinal economyRthis liminal capacity within political economy andcomplete freedom from incapacity within liidinal economyRwhich raises

serious douts aout the status of /Savage ethicality vis+\+vis thetriangulate" structure (Re", Fhite, an" :lac5 of antagonisms. learly, thecoherence of hiteness as a structural position in modernity depends onthe capacity to e free from genocide! not! perhaps! as an historicale0perience! ut at least as a positioning modality.


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Ara States of the =ersian Gulf The A(( is a continuation of United States imperialism. TheANs reduction in military presence is 'ust a part of the larger

grand strategy to ma"e the system of American dominationand policing continue.Buec"$1F(olin Cuec5, Cr. olin Cuec5 is a Senior -ellow of the -8RI an" an associate'rofessor in the School of 8olicy, 9overnment, an" International ADairs at 9eorge!ason, htt'&www.isn.eth?.chCigital+6ibraryArticlesCetailLlngTenUi"T1K02*0&ver the past decade or more, lea"ing aca"emic foreign policy realists have argued for USstrategic retrenchment . Retrenchment is a strategy designed to reduce a countryJsinternational an" military costs an" commitments. X1Y his can be done y cutting defensespending! withdrawing from certain alliance obligations, scaling ac" on deploymentsaroad, or re"ucing international e7'en"itures. )etrenchment "oes not necessarily involve the

avoidance of all strategic commitments. :ut the "esire" "irection with retrenchment is one oflowere" cost an" re"uce" commitment. ne es'ecially star5 version of strategic retrenchment, cham'ione" by'olitical scientists such as $ohn !earsheimer, Ste'hen Falt, Robert 8a'e, an" hristo'her 6ayne, is the conce't of

oDshore balancing. X2Y Accor"ing to its lea"ing a"vocates, a strategy of oNshore alancingwould still try to ensure that no one ma'or power dominates >urope!@ortheast Asia! or the =ersian Gulf. :ut it woul" ma5e others assume the main bur"en, an" relyon local 'owers to balance one another, while stationing US military forces over thehori7on, either oDshore or within the @nite" States. An oDshore balancing strategy woul" embrace shar're"uctions in the si?e of the @S Army an" !arines, avoi" counterinsurgency o'erations altogether, an" abstain frominternational 'ro=ects involving the military occu'ation or governance of "evelo'ing countries. -or the most 'art, it

woul" avoi" foreign wars. American forces woul" come onshore only if local powersproved unale to maintain regional balance of powers on their own. ith thethreat chec"ed! US troops would then e0it and go ac" over the hori7on.Accor"ing to !earsheimer, oDshore balancing woul" allow the @nite" States to "isban" e7isting alliancecommitments in uro'e an" ast Asia, an" cut "efense s'en"ing to about 2 'ercent of AmericaJs 9ross Comestic8ro"uct (9C8. he scale"+bac5 @S military 'resence overseas woul" further un"ercut su''ort for anti+Americanterrorism, an" re"uce the nee" for other 'owers to "evelo' their own wea'ons of mass "estruction. At least,

these are some of the ene6ts claimed for oNshore alancing y itsproponents. X*Y Retrenchment este" he bama years 'rovi"e an interesting test case for the conse>uencesof an incremental an" 'artial strategic retrenchment. o be sure, American gran" strategy un"er bama hasmulti'le as'ects, an" sometimes contains assertive elements. After all, this is the 'resi"ent who hunte" "ownsama :in 6a"en, announce" a @S 'ivot to Asia, an" escalate" the use of unmanne" "rone stri5es against Al]ae"a an" its aGliates. #or has bama a"o'te" anything li5e a 'ure strategy of oDshore balancing. A"vocates ofoDshore balancing woul" have neither surge" into Afghanistan in 200K+2010, nor to''le" ]a""auent se>uestration, resulte" in roughly ^1 trillion in "efensecuts over a ten+year 'erio" currently un"erway. his was on to' of 'revious cuts from bamaJs


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8resi"ent. In terms of e7'licit security strategy, the 2012 Cefense Strategic 9ui"ance hel'e" clarify 5eyassum'tions of retrenchment, aban"oning the 'retense that the @nite" States be able to uire" the 'resence+within the 'olity, economy, culture, an" society+of a so+calle" 'roblem 'eo'le, "welling as


:eyon" its economic utility, this rendering of the lac" as the o'ect of dispossession'ar e7cellence+ob=ect of accumulation, 'rototy'ical commo"ity, ca'tive 4esh+structures in"elibly the


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historical proliferation of modem conceptions of sovereignty that now "ominate'olitical an" legal "iscourse globally an" provide the crucial frames of intelligiility foroth imperialism and anti-imperialism! empire and its discontents. Fith blac5sbarre" by "e


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Trayvon ,artin. In his now much+>uote" Fhite 3ouse brie


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have argue" that the site of violence occurred upon the confrontation etweenTrayvon and Kimmerman. Net, the violence egan with Kimmerman$s non-emergency dispatch call, a call that was racially assaultive in its discourse, one thatuse" the tro'es of anti+blac5 racism. #ote, Oimmerman sai", “here/s a real sus'icious guy.% 3e also sai", “his guyloo5s li5e he/s u' to no goo" or he/s on "rugs or something.% Fhen as5e" by the "is'atcher, he sai", withinsecon"s, that, “3e loo5s blac5.% As5e" what he is wearing, Oimmerman says, “A "ar5 hoo"ie, li5e a gray hoo"ie.%6ater, Oimmerman sai" that “now he/s coming towar" me. 3e/s got his han"s in his waist ban".% An" then, “An"

he/s a blac5 male.% :ut what "oes it mean to be “a real sus'icious guy%L Fhat "oes it mean to loo5 li5e one is “u'to no goo"%L Oimmerman "oes not give any "etails, nothing to buttress the vali"ity of his narration. Eee' in min"that Oimmerman is in his vehicle as he 'rovi"es his narration to the "is'atcher. As “the loo5er,% it is notOimmerman who is in "anger rather, it is rayvon !artin, “the loo5e" at,% who is the target of sus'icion an"'ossible violence. After all, it is rayvon !artin who is wearing the hoo"ie, a 'iece of “raciali?e"% attire thata''arently signiue history of racist

vitriol in this country. Net it is one that is 'erha's too late, one alrea"y ren"ere" mute an" inconse>uential by thever"ict of “not guilty.%


)evolutionary suicide is an idealism to re'ect the ause thatlac" esh is su'ected to. *t is standing up for thedowntrodden! it is freedom to decide what happens to thelac" community *t is an outcry for the relief of police rutality.

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"etermine our "estiny. 2. Fe want full em'loyment for our 'eo'le. Fe believe that the fe"eral government isres'onsible an" obligate" to give every man em'loyment or a guarantee" income. Fe believe that if the white

American businessmen will not give full em'loyment, then the means of production should eta"en from the usinessmen and placed in the community so that thepeople of the community can organi7e and employ all of its people andgive a high standard of living. *. Fe want an end to the roery by the ca'italist of

our ;lac" community. Fe believe that this racist government has robbe" us an" now we are "eman"ingthe over"ue "ebt of forty acres an" two mules. -orty acres an" two mules were 'romise" 100 years ago asrestitution for slave labor an" mass mur"er of :lac5 'eo'le. Fe will acce't the 'ayment in currency which will be"istribute" to our many communities. he 9ermans are now ai"ing the $ews in Israel for the genoci"e of the $ewish'eo'le. he 9ermans mur"ere" si7 million $ews. he American racist has ta5en 'art in the slaughter of over ual station to which the laws of nature an" nature/s 9o" entitle them, a "ecentres'ect to the o'inions of man5in" re>uires that they shoul" "eclare the causes which im'el them to these'aration. Fe hol" these truths to be self+evi"ent, that all men are create" e>ual that they are en"owe" by their

reator with certain un alienable rights that among these are life, liberty, an" the 'ursuit of ha''iness. hat, tosecure these rights! government s are instituted among men! deriving

their 'ust powers from the consent of the governedO that! whenever anyform of government ecomes destructive of these ends! it is the right ofthe people to alter or to aolish it, an" to institute a new government, laying its foun"ation onsuch 'rinci'les, an" organi?ing its 'owers in such form, as to them shall seem most li5ely to eDect their safety an"ha''iness. 8ru"ence, in"ee", will "ictate that governments long establishe" shoul" not be change" for light an"transient causes an", accor"ingly, all e7'erience hath shown, that man5in" are more "is'ose" to suDer, while evils

are suDerable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustome". :ut, when along train of auses an" usur'ations, 'ursuing invariably the same ob=ect, evinces a design toreduce them under asolute despotism! it is their right, it is their duty! to throw


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@ortheast AsiaThe reduction of military presence is the uidity of whitepolicing. The US grand strategy will withdraw troops from

________ only to give the signal of a enign authority! all to havethose troops replaced y air stri"es and private contractorsand then sent to the lac"est of their enemies #emen andSomalia.Smith$1%(Ashley smith, Smith is a long time contributor to many suberversive sources. Smithhas written for the ISR in their 2012 issue “ rayvon !artin an" the #ew $im crow%.

he following can be foun" here& htt'&isreview.orgissue)*obamas+new+im'erialist+strategy-ace" with the growing rivalry with hina an" America/s "iminishe" 'ower in the !i""le ast, the &amaadministration has been com'elle" to ad'ust the grand strategy of gloal

domination . bama still intends for the United States to e, in his wor"s, “the in"is'ensablenation,% the world$s policeman. 3e will therefore continue to pro'ect American power into its tra"itional s'heres of in4uence li5e 6atin America, as well as e7'an" its activity into other areas such as




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The s3ualing over things li"e removal of troops is ut adistraction mechanism from the dispossession of the lac"o'ect. US imperialism and anti-imperialism are ased in anti-lac"ness. The discussion of the A(( crowds out the analysis of slavery and anti-lac"ness.

Se0ton$45(Race, #ation, an" m'ire in a :lac5ene" Forl", $are" Se7ton, 200B, $are" Se7ton isa 'rofessor at al Irvine

ln the consternate" delierations of national security, oGcial an" unoGcial, from thefoun"ing of the repulic to the trum'eting of the new world order, the social control an"crisis management of the lac" population has always 6gured centrally ! even orespecially when matters of emanci'ation or racial e3uality have by no means thefocus of deate . Across the swee' of @.S. history, 'olicing the color line has re>uire" no cre"ible threat ofinvasion, no evi"ence of insurrectionary "esign, no 'roven stoc5'ile of illicit chemical agents or ra"ioactivematerial, no 'articular breach of "omestic or international law, no sensational moral or ethical transgression(though all of these items, real or imagine", have factore" in the relevant "iscourses, 'ublic an" 'rivate. It has onlyre>uire" the 'resence+within the 'olity, economy, culture, an" society+of a so+calle" 'roblem 'eo'le, "welling as


:eyon" its economic utility, this rendering of the lac" as the o'ect of dispossession'ar e7cellence+ob=ect of accumulation, 'rototy'ical commo"ity, ca'tive 4esh+structures in"elibly thehistorical proliferation of modem conceptions of sovereignty that now "ominate'olitical an" legal "iscourse globally an" provide the crucial frames of intelligiility foroth imperialism and anti-imperialism! empire and its discontents. Fith blac5s

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ca'ital of military hero+ ism, etc.+all com'onents of the ty'ical criti>ue of the racism internal to the arme" forcesbut were also "iDerentiate" by the enemies of the @.S. military invasion an" occu'ation. Racially targete"'ro'agan"a a''eale" to the cruel ironies of blac5 military service (ironies alrea"y well 5nown an" articulate" bymi"+century an" oDere" i"eological su''ort to the struggle for free"om, =ustice, an" e>uality that was, at the time,intensifying an" mutating statesi"e as it raise" the galvani?ing cry of :lac5 8ower.

*mperialism is a reproduction of anti-lac" racism. *mperialismas a system pits minorities against each other and forcesindividuals to assimilate into the white system of lac"policing. Any promotion of the imperial system should ere'ected as unethical.;lac"fo00$1<(:lac5fo77 is an avi" twitter writer about race an" racism. :lac5 fo77 has 'uttogether some of the most forwar" statements about anti+blac5ness an" the way itis 'romote" through the American system.

I 5now everything I nee" to 5now when 'eo'le are tal5ing about anti-lac" racism, 'articularly reasons

“why its not so simple% an" why its not as im'ortant or "evastating as we ma5e it out to be, but they onlytal" aout it in reference to ;lac" people in the United States. So what aout the world full of ;lac" people you continue to dehumani7eL hat lets me5now whether its anti+blac5ness you are intereste" in, or "o"ging accountability an" resisting changing your anti+blac5 behavior. :ecause using a straw man of @.S. im'erialism that structurally we have nothing to "o with (I/m nottal5ing about a small minority of blac5 ''l who sli' through the crac5s, in or"er to e7cuse antiblac5 racism can only4y in 1. a @.S. conte7t an" 2.an anti+blac5 one. Allow me to e7'lain. I wont re'eat all of the things I/ve tal5e"

about earlier this wee5M.:ut Again, to understand systems of power, we loo" atframewor"s not at e0ceptions. An" if you want to get really realMIf you want to ta5e a wal5 throughthe 8entagon an" the State Ce'artment. I have been through bothM Asi"e from all the white 'eo'le, Nou will ue to :lac5 'eo'le an" it is not a''ro'riate to bring u' when "iscussinge7cusing your anti+blac5 racism.

There will always e a minority of poc present, but those are things that nee" to beun"erstoo" in the broa"er conte7t of a large SR@@R. his is why you never see me 'ointing to them. It means

little to nothing in the broa"er conte7t of Im'erialism an" what that means. THAT *S HAT*,=>)*A2*S, ?+&2&@*A2*S, *S. hat part of *mperialism is limiting optionsfor poc, ripping them from the conte7t of their culture! removing options !indoctrinating them with its own messages in the asence of all thosethings! providing its own options! and then churning those people in thecogs of the machine. As casualties ! means of production, 'ieces of the 'rison+in"ustrial, com'le7, an" a small minority as the faces and agents of imperialism, etc. 8art of how it operates! while an" after it destroys everything, is selecting a small minority of'eo'le to carry out its agen"a. I also "ont mean to say its com'letely unim'ortant within the 'ro'er conte7t, but forthe 'ur'ose of "iscussing anti+blac5 racism or blaming a collective grou' without that access, its irrelevant. It isintellectually "ishonest to loo5 at this minority of 'eo'le chosen, s'eci


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lac" racism! in order to truly really see the lengths that they are going.8eo'le nee" to reali?e that investment an" start to challenge an" "econstruct it before anything will beaccom'lishe". Nou shoul" start to won"er not “hey are always bellyaching, 3ow ba" are those blac5 'eo'le

RA66NL% an" start to won"er “Fhy am i so investe"L% an" follow that stream of thought to its conclusions. Thisis antilac"ness in its est form. An" 'eo'le will get u'set at :lac5 Americans all "ay long as ane7cuse. ,eanwhile there is an entire world of ;lac" people! of which we are a

very small minority! that is eing su'ected to your anti-lac" racism . ;utyou are silent aout them. :ut :lac5 Americans are 'articularly goo" about calling 'eo'le on theirshit, because we have ha" to "evelo' an intimate un"erstan"ing of the matri7 of o''ression, as a means of survivalin the belly of the beast. Fe have "evelo'e" a very s'eci)T ABCA@TAG> 2*@D H>)>E

hiteness perpetuates a system of ause of the lac". Thenormativity of whiteness creates a hyper visiility for lac"s.The result of this hyper visiility is eing received as a odythat is already mar"ed and already dead. The perception ofeing already dead legitimi7es the slaughter of lac" esh.

#ancy$1<(9eorge Nancy is 8rofessor of 8hiloso'hy at Cu>uesne @niversity an" oor"inator ofthe ritical Race heory S'ea5er Series. 3e is the author of :lac5 :o"ies, Fhite

9a?es& he ontinuing Signiuesne @niversity 8resi"ential Awar" for7cellence in Scholarshi', htt'&o'inionator.blogs.nytimes.com201*0K01wal5ing+while+blac5+in+the+white+ga?eL'h'TtrueUty'eTblogsUrT0Vmore+1W)W;)

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many occasions as whites catch sight of me wal"ing past their cars: +lic"!clic"! clic"! clic" . Those clic"s can e deafening . There are times when *want to ecome their oogeyman. * want to pull open the car door andshout: /Surprise #ou$ve 'ust een car-'ac"ed y a fantasy of your owncreation. @ow get out of the car. The president$s words, 'erha's consigne" to along+ago news cycle now, remain 'owerful& they validate e0periences that lac"s have

undergone in their everyday lives. bama/s voice resonates with those 'hiloso'hical voices(-rant? -anon, for e7am'le that have long attem'te" to "escribe the live" interiority of racial e7'eriences. 3e hasalso "e'loye" the 'ower of narrative autobiogra'hy, which is a signi


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blac5 young male with “something% in his han"s, wearing a hoo"ie, loo5ing sus'icious, an" 'erha's on "rugs, an"

there being “something wrong with him,% is a racist narrative of fear an" fren?y. The history of whitesupremacy underwrites this interpretation . Fithin this conte7t of "iscursive violence,Oimmerman was guilty of an act of aggression against rayvon !artin, even efore the trigger waspulled . :efore his 'hysical "eath, Trayvon ,artin was rendered /socially deadunder the weight of Kimmerman$s racist stereotypes . Oimmerman/s aggression was

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(ramewor" The )&;: The )ole of the ;allot should e to determinewho est interrupts and re'ects the racist power structure +ounter- *nterpretation: The armative must 'ustify theirontology efore they get to weigh the aN.

Standards:

Ground MThe armative team must defend the entirety ofthe 1A+! not 'ust select parts. *t$s a 3uestion of the plan

action as well as the advantages andepistemology?ontology that 'usti6es it. @egative groundis only to prove that the armative is not desirale.

)eps M the A(( has the urden of proof to 'ustify therepresentations that they put fourth ,ust e ale to testthe assumptions of the 1A+ M they have structural adv.

@o impact to your framewor" argument M this is a

predictale literature ase situated around the 3uestionof society which is etter education than plan-focuseducation ecause the concepts of concept andinteractions that undergird the rest of the deates.

They say the focus on the macro matters - ut the detachedstance of the policy ma"er in deate divorces us from trueadvocacy and is one of the most deilitating failures ofcontemporary education. Such as stance is lin"ed to normative

practices used to produce and maintain multiple networ"s ofoppression.)eid-;rin"ley! %44J(Shanara,_3 3ARS3 RA6IIS - “AI#9 :6AE%& 3F A-RIA#+A!RIA#86IN C:ARS #9IA R8RS#AI# 3R@93 RAIA6 8R-R!A#A#C SN6,_ 'g. 11)+120


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!itchell observes that the stance of the policyma"er in deate comes with a/sense of detachment associated with the spectator posture.% In other wor"s, itsparticipants are ale to engage in deates where they are ale to distancethemselves from the events that are the su'ects of deates. Beaters canthrow around terms li"e torture! terrorism! genocide and nuclear warwithout lin"ing . Cebate simulations can only serve to distance the deaters

from real world participation in the political conte0ts they deate aout. AsFilliam Shanahan remar5s& Mthe topic estalished a relationship throughinterpellation that inhere" irres'ective of what the 'articular 'olitical aGnities of the "ebaters were. Therelationship was oth political and ethical ! and need ed to e deated assuch . hen we lithely call for United States (ederal Governmentpolicyma"ing! we are not immune to the colonialist legacy that estalishesour place on this continent. e cannot wish away the horri6c atrocitiesperpetrated everyday in our name simply y refusing to ac"nowledgethese implications (em'hasis in original. he “ob=ective% stance of the policyma"er isan impersonal or imperialist persona. he 'olicyma5er relies upon /acceptaleforms of evidence ! engaging in logical discussion! producing rationalthoughts. As Shanahan, an" the 6ouisville "ebaters/ note, such a stance is integrally lin"ed

to the normative! historical and contemporary practices of power thatproduce and maintain varying networ"s of oppression. In other wor"s, thediscursive practices of policy-oriented deate are developed within!through and from systems of power and privilege. Thus! these practicesare critically implicated in the maintenance of hegemony . So, rather than seeingthemselves as government or state actors, $ones an" 9reen choose to 'erform themselves in "ebate, violating themore “ob=ective% stance of the “'olicyma5er% an" re>uire their o''onents to "o the same. $ones an" 9reen arguethat "ebaters shoul" groun" their agency in what they are able to "o as “in"ivi"uals.% #ote the following statementfrom 9reen in the 2# against mory/s Allen an" 9reenstein (ran5e" in the “sweet si7teen%& “An" then, anothermain "iDerence is that our a"vocacy is groun"e" in our agency as in"ivi"uals. heir agency is groun"e" in what the@S fe"eral government, what the state shoul" "o.%11H iting !itchell, 9reen argues further& Fe tal5 about, "ea"'re?, tal5s about how the system ain/t gone change, unless we ma5e it change. Fe/re tal5in/ about what we asin"ivi"uals shoul" "o. hat/s why 9or"on !itchell tal5e" about how when we lose our argumentative agency. hen we give our agency to someone else! we egin spea"ing of what the

United States (ederal Government should do! rather than what we do! thatcause us to e spectators. *ts one of the most deilitating failure s ofcontemporary education. As 'art of their commitment to the "evelo'ment of agency, each of the6ouisville "ebaters engages in recognition of their 'rivilege, in an attem't to ma5e their social locations visible an"relevant to their rhetorical stance.


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Africa

The reduction of military presence is the uidity of whitepolicing. The US grand strategy will withdraw troops from________ only to give the signal of a enign authority! all to havethose troops replaced y air stri"es and private contractorsand then sent to the lac"est of their enemies #emen andSomalia.Smith$1%(Ashley smith, Smith is a long time contributor to many suberversive sources. Smithhas written for the ISR in their 2012 issue “ rayvon !artin an" the #ew $im crow%.

he following can be foun" here& htt'&isreview.orgissue)*obamas+new+im'erialist+strategy-ace" with the growing rivalry with hina an" America/s "iminishe" 'ower in the !i""le ast, the

&amaadministration has been com'elle" to ad'ust the grand strategy of gloaldomination . bama still intends for the United States to e, in his wor"s, “the in"is'ensablenation,% the world$s policeman. 3e will therefore continue to pro'ect American power into its tra"itional s'heres of in4uence li5e 6atin America, as well as e7'an" its activity into other areas such as




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would no longer e si7ed to conduct large-scale prolonged stailityoperations. The call instead was for innovative! low-cost and small-footprint approaches . X;Y ne lea"ing scholarly a"vocate of oDshore balancing, hristo'her 6ayne ofthe 9eorge 3.F. :ush School at e7as AU!, rightly note" that the 2012 Strategic 9ui"ance re'resente" a

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Analogy

,oments of analogy etween lac" esh and others onlyoscure the violence felt y those trapped in o'ecthood. The

violence suNered y lac"ened populations is contingent utthe violence that is felt y truly lac" people is one thatcannot e so easily dealt with.Se0ton$14($are" Se7ton, is a 'rofessor at al Irvine. 8eo'le of olor+blin"ness, #otes on theafterlife of slavery, 'g. W*+WW

In this light, we might augment the 'ost+K11 criti>ue of the racial state regar"ingthe ;ush administration$s initiation of the ongoing war on terror, thepassage of the =AT)*&T Acts, the formation of the Bepartment ofHomeland Security! the /anti-terrorist roundups of %441! the torture of

/enemy comatants at U.S. military prisons! and so on.;) his redactedcommentary might productively shift the prevailing conceptuali7ation ofAmerican empire and especially the use of imprisonment and policepro6ling as tropes of the raciali7ed political oppression it engenders! othnationally and internationally. Fe are in a position now to see how thedeployment of this rhetorical device (for e7am'le, “-lying Fhile :rown% is li5e“Criving Fhile :lac5% the Immigrant For5ers -ree"om Ri"e “uilds on thehistory of the noble @S civil rights movement% the prisoner ause at AuGhrai is reminiscent of the lynching of lac" s;K is made possile y amisrecognition of the lived e0perience of the lac" . his point is developedy ilderson with reference to the distinction etween political conict Social e7t 8ublishe" by Cu5e @niversity 8ress W W Se7ton ` #otes on the Afterlife of

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+ivil Society?State

Seemingly inclusive political movements recreate fungiility.They give the allusion that freedom for the lac" is the end

sought when truly the master$s interests are what is in mind.;lac" esh has always een the face of popular revolutions. *tis y de6ning itself as something similar to ut not the sameas the lac" that movements li"e the armative have gainedtraction for their movement. This type of use of the lac"recreates a state of politics where the lac" is fungile.ilderson$14(-ran5. :. Fil"erson, Re" Fhite an" blac5, 2010. 8g. *0 -ran5 :. Fil"erson is atenure" 'rofessor at the @niversity of alifornia Irvine. 3e has atten"e" the@niversity of olombia where he got a "egree in 'sychology.

>ltis suggests that there was indeed massive deate which ultimately ledto ;ritain ta"ing the lead in the aolition of slavery, but he remin"s us that that "ebate"i" not have its roots in the late !i""le Ages, the 'ost+olumbian 'erio" of the 1;00s or the Pirginia olony 'erio"

of the 1B00s. It was, he asserts, an outgrowth of the mi"+ to late1)th century emancipatory thrustintra+3uman "is'utes such as the -rench an" American Revolutionsthat swept through >urope.:ut ltis "oes not ta5e his analysis further than this. herefore, it is important that we not eswayed y his optimism aout the >nlightenment and its suse3uentaolitionist discourses. It is highly conceivable that the "iscourse that elaborates the 'usti6cationfor freeing the slave is not the product of the Human eing havingsuddenly and miraculously recogni7ed the slave. )ather, as Sai"iya 3artman argues,emancipatory discourses present themselves to us as further evidence ofthe Slave$s fungiility : “XYhe uestions of 3umanism were elaborate" in contra"istinction tothe human voi", to the African+>ua+chattel (the 1200s to the en" of the 1Hth century. hen, as the presenceof ;lac" chattel in the midst of e0ploited and un-e0ploited Humans (wor5ersan" bosses, res'ectively ecame a fact of the world, e7'loite" Humans 8in the throesof class conict with un-e0ploited Humans9 sei7e d the image of the slaveas an enaling vehicle that Re", Fhite, U :lac5& inema an" the Structure of @.S. Antagonisms *1animate" the evolving discourses of their emancipation, 'ust as un-e0ploitedHumans had sei7ed the esh of the Slave to increase their pro6ts. Fithout thisgratuitous violence, a violence that mar5s everyone e7'erientially until the late !i""le Ages when it starts to mar5

the :lac5 ontologically, the so-called great emancipatory discourses of modernity Rmar0ism! feminism! postcolonialism! se0ual lieration! and the ecologymovementRpolitical discourses predicated on grammars of suNering andwhose constituent elements are e0ploitation and alienation ! might nothave developed.7i hattel slavery "i" not sim'ly reterritoriali?e the ontology of the African. It alsocreated the Human out of culturally disparate entities from uro'e to the ast.


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>0tinction )hetoric

Their emphasis on spectacles of violence the e0amples hereare__________________ is a strategic ploy of false threat

construction to conceal and not reveal everyday forms ofviolence causing a failure to eNectively challenge structuralviolence and white supremacy,artinot Se0ton %44<XSteve U $are", Steve is a lecturer at San -rancisco State @niversity in the enter forInter"isci'linary 8rograms $are" is Associate 8rofessor African American Stu"iesSchool of 3umanities Associate 8rofessor, -ilm U !e"ia Stu"ies School of3umanities at @ Irvine 8h.C., @niversity of alifornia, :er5eley, om'arative thnicStu"ies, “he Avant+9ar"e of Fhite Su'remacy, Social I"entities, Polume K, #umber2, 200* '.1H1+1H2Y,ost theories of white supremacy see5 to 'lumb the "e'ths of its e7cessiveness, beyon" theor"inary they miss the fact that racism is a mundane aNair. he fun"amental e7cess of theparadigm of policing which infuses this culture is wholly anal. hosetheories overloo" that fact in favor of e0tant e0travagance! spectacle! or the ["ee' 'sychology/ of rogue elements and ecome complicit in perpetuatingwhite supremacy . he reality is an invidious ethos of e0cess that, instea",constitutes the surface of everything in this society. -or some time now, the intellectual >uest for racism/ssu''ose"ly hi""en meaning has aDor"e" a refuge from confrontations with this banality, even its 'ossibleac5nowle"gement. he most egregious as'ect of this banality is our tacit ac>uiescence to the rules of race an"'ower, to the legitimacy white su'remacy says it has, regar"less of their total violation of reason an"

com'rehensibility. &ur tacit ac3uiescence is the real silent source of whitesupremacist tenacity and power. As Filliam . 3arris, II wrote in the aftermath of yisha !iller/smur"er by the 'olice& It is heartbrea5ing to be an American citi?en an" have to say this, but I "o have to say this.Fe have almost, an" I stress almost, become accustome" to 'olice shooting innocent, unarme", young, blac5males. hat in itself is ba" enough, an" one was at one time incline" to thin5 it coul"nJt get any worse, but it getsworseM. #ow we have 'olice 5illing our young blac5 females. It canJt get any worse than that. 3arris is right yet he

also sells himself out because he ac>uiesces in the 'rocess of "ecrying ac>uiescence. 3e "oes not "raw the linebetween res'ect for 'ersons an" im'unity. 3e continues& _ven if she grabbe" a gun, was it necessary to shoot ather twenty+seven timesL I 5now it/s less than W1, but thatJs still too many times to shoot at a slee'ing female

blac5, brown, yellow or white_ (em'hasis a""e". Fhy isn/t one bullet too many times to shoot anybo"yL *t isthe 'o of the spectacular (an" sensational re'orts about the subtle to draw attentionaway from the anality of 'olice mur"er as stan"ar" o'erating 'roce"ure. Spectacle is aform of camouage. It "oes not conceal anything it sim'ly renders it unrecogni7ale. neloo5s at it an" "oes not see it. It a''ears in "isguise. 3arris, for e7am'le, loo5s at ac>uiescence an" cannot see it.amou4age is a relationshi' between the one "issimulating their a''earance an" the one who is foole", who loo5san" cannot see. 6i5e raciali?ation as a system of meanings assigne" to the bo"y, 'olice s'ectacle is itself the formof a''earance of this banality. heir en"less assault re4ects the i"ea that race is a social envelo'e, a system ofsocial categori?ation "ro''e" over the hea"s of 'eo'le li5e clothes. 8olice im'unity serves to "istinguish betweenthe racial uniform itself an" the elsewhere that man"ates it. hey constitute the "istinction between those whosehuman being is 'ut 'ermanently in >uestion an" those for whom it goes without saying. 8olice s'ectacle is not theeDect of the racial uniform rather, it is the 'olice uniform that is 'ro"ucing re+raciali?ation. #othing bettere7em'li


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otrudes with a small daily violence whose form is gratuitous, without motivation in thesituation in which it is use", an" whose content is to ren"er that situation "ominate" by white su'remacy. If it sitsat the heart of the language of racism it is because it is banal an" every"ay even while symboli?ing racism/s utmostviolence, the verbal form of its genoci"al tra=ectory. hose who use "erogatory terms re'eate"ly are 'uttingthemselves in a continual state of aggression turning their ob=ective com'licity with a structure" relation of whitesu'remacist "ominance into an active investment or aGrmation. Such mo"es of assault "emonstrate a s'eci


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*mperialism

=romotion of American *mperialism promotes anti-lac" terror.The e0ploitation of the negro is a necessary condition for US

imperialism. US *mperialism is uilt upon terrori7ing lac"sand e0tracting ma0imum pro6ts from ma0imum pain.Saa @o Bate V1I5+usone+2+1.htm)acism and the economic supere0ploitation of the @egro people madepossile by racism are 'illars vital to the su''ort of @.S. ca'italism their "estruction woul" constitute a blow of incalculable force against the economic an" political viaility of @.S. ca'italism an" therefore againstthe structure of world imperialism. he tremen"ous accumulation of 'ro


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consi"ere" an en"orsement of this form of [:lac5 Internationalism/ as Ahma" terms it rather, my thoughts re4ect a"esire to e7ten" the un"erstan"ing an" theory of !ar7ism+6eninism+!aoism to 'ro'erly a""ress the >ualitativechanges in im'erialist+ca'italism an" the 'owerful relationshi' between race an" class. -irst, let us e7amine the'rimary thesis of the [Forl" :lac5 Revolution/ from which all of Ahma"/s theory grows. 3e begins by aGrming the

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=olicy +reation

=olicy is the violent destruction of the planning that is neededto lierate the lac" community. =olicy wor"s to 60 and ma"e

"nown the secrets of everything thus roing lac" lierationof the possiility of planning and its necessary fugitvity.,oten and Harney $1<(-re" !otenJs


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yet theo+ ri?e", what is not yet fully contingent, an" most im'ortantly what is not yet legible. =olicy iscorrection, forcing itself with mechanical violence upon the incorrect, the uncorrecte",the ones who "o not 5now to see5 their own correction. =olicy distinguishes itself fromplanning y distinguishing those who dwell in policy and 60 things fromthose who dwell in planning and must e 60ed. his is the 6rst rule of policy. *t60es others. In an e7tension of !ichel -oucault/s wor5 we might say of this uilibrium, even if to"ay this re>uiresconstant recalibration. :ut the ob=ects of this con+ stant a"=ustment 'rovo5e this attention because they =ust "on/twant to govern, let alone be governe", at all. o brea5 these means of 'lan+ ning, an" so to "etermine them in

recombine" an" 'rivati?e" ways, is the necessary goal an" instrumentality of 'olicy as comman". It wants tosmash all forms of militant preservation! to rea" the movement of social rest in which the ne7t 'lan always remains 'otential with a "ream of settle" 'otency. his is now what change means,what 'olicy is for, as it inva"es the social re'ro"uctive realm where, as 6eo'al"ina -ortunati note" three "eca"esago, the struggle rages. An" because such 'olicy emerges materially from 'ost+for"ist o'+ 'ortunism, 'olicy musto'timally allow for each 'olicy "e'uty to ta5e a"vantage of his o''ortunity an" uesters its own imagination, so they can be safe from one another. It

is crucial that 'lanners choose to 'artici'ate. =olicy is a mass eNort. *ntellectuals will writearticles in the news'a'ers, 8la##i#9 a#" 8liy HK 'hiloso'hers will hol" conferences on new uto'ias,loggers will deate! and politicians will compromise here! where changeis policy$s only constant. =articipating in change is the second rule ofpolicy. 9overnance shoul" not be confuse" with government or governmentality. 9overnance is mostim'ortantly a new form of e7'ro'riation. It is the 'rovocation of a certain 5in" of "is'lay, a "is'lay of interests as"isintereste"ness, a "is'lay of convertibility, a "is'lay of legibility. 9overnance is an instrumentalisation of 'olicy, aset of 'rotocols of "e'utation, where one simultaneously auctions an" bi"s on oneself, where the 'ublic an" the'rivate submit themselves to 'ost+for"ist 'ro"uction. 9overnance is the harvesting of the means of social re+'ro"uction but it a''ears as the acts of will, an" therefore as the "eath "rive, of the harveste". As ca'ital cannot5now "irectly the aDect, thought, sociality, an" imagination that ma5e u' the un"ercommon means of socialre'ro"uction, it must instea" 'ros'ect for these in or"er to e7tract an" abstract them as labor. hat 'ros'ecting,which is the real bio+'ros'ecting, see5s to brea5 an integrity that has been militantly 'reserve". 9overnance, thevoluntary but "issociative oDering u' of interests, willing 'artici'ation in the general 'rivacy an" 'ublic 'rivation,grants ca'ital this 5nowle"ge, this wealth+ma5ing ca'acity. 8olicy emits this oDering, violently manifest as a moral'rovocation. he ones who woul" correct an" the ones who woul" be correcte" converge aroun" this im'erative ofsubmission that is 'laye" out constantly not only in that range of correctional facilities that -oucault analy?e" the'risons, the hos'itals, the asylums but also in cor'orations, universities an" #9s. hat convergence is given )0


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he @n"ercommons not only in the structures an" aDects of en"less war but also in the brutal 'rocesses an"'er'etual 'rocessing of 'eace. 9overnance, "es'ite its own ho'es for a universality of e7clusion, is for thein"ucte", for those who 5now how to articulate interests "isintereste"ly, those who vote an" 5now why they vote(not because someone is blac5 or female but because he or she is smart, who have o'inions an" want to be ta5enseriously by serious 'eo'le. In the mean time, 'ol+ icy must still 'ursue the >uoti"ian s'here of o'en secret 'lans.

=olicy posits curriculum against study! child development against play!human capital against wor". It 'osits having a voice against hearing voices, net+ wor5e" frien"ing

against contractual frien"shi'. 8olicy 'osits the 'ublic s'here, or the counter+'ublic s'here, or the blac5 'ublics'here, against the illegal occu'ation of the illegitimately 'rivati?e". 8olicy is not the one against the many, thecynical against the roman+ tic, or the 'ragmatic against the 'rinci'le". It is sim'ly baseless vi+ sion, woven intosettler/s fabric. It is against all conservation, all rest, all gathering, coo5ing, "rin5ing an" smo5ing if they lea" to

marron+ age. =olicy$s vision is to rea" it up then 60 it ! move it along y 60ingit! manufacture amition and give it to your children . =olicy$s hope is thatthere will e more policy ! more participation! more change. ;ut there isalso a danger in all this participation! a danger of crisis.


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)eformism

They A(( perpetuates a world of lac" su'ugation. Thepolitical and academic discourses of individual prolems!

oscure and legitimi7e the structural antagonism of anti-lac"ness. ilderson$14(-ran5. :. Fil"erson, Re" Fhite an" blac5, 2010. -ran5 :. Fil"erson is a tenure"'rofessor at the @niversity of alifornia Irvine. 3e has atten"e" the @niversity ofolombia where he got a "egree in 'sychology.'g. 1*

he distance etween the protester and the police has narrowedconsideraly. he eNect of this upon the academy is that intellectualprotocols tend to privilege two of the three domains of su'ectivity, namelypreconscious interests (as evidenced in the wor5 of social science around/political unity ! /social attitudes! /civic participation ! and /diversity,%

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(eminism

(eminism wor"s to continue the destruction of lac" feminity.The topics and the places of emphasis for feminism can only

e0ist in their constant negation to lac" feminity.ilderson$14(-ran5. :. Fil"erson, Re" Fhite an" blac5, 2010. -ran5 :. Fil"erson is a tenure"'rofessor at the @niversity of alifornia Irvine. 3e has atten"e" the @niversity ofolombia where he got a "egree in 'sychology. 'ages 1HK+1)0.I want to re+locate the destruction of her wom spatially at the symolicplentitude of the hite woman$s wom, an" locate it temporally at hitefemininity $s moment of possiility. his rich semantic


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(oucalt?Governmentality

Govern mentality is reproduced y the political criti3ues of thestate. Articulating that we have to watch ourselves is e0actly

what the government wants so that it can watch you watchyourself. This form of politics oscures the way that thegovernment will continue to ause those lac" odies that cannever e tas"ed with watching themselves.,oten and Harney$1<(-re" !otenJs


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e0haustion of lac"ness thought y the state and the new way to stealfrom the stolen! who refuse to give up the secret of thieving with theirtheft! the secret of their thieving of their theft. *n the newest language ofthe social sciences we might say that governance is generated y a refusalamong iopolitical populations. r 'erha's by the self+activity of immaterial labor. :ut maybe wewoul" li"e to say it is provo"ed y the communicaility of unmanageale

racial and se0ual diNerence! insisting on a now unfathomale det ofwealth. 12. 9overnance is a strategy for the 'rivati?ation of social re'ro"uctive labor, a strategy 'rovo5e" bythis communicability, infecte" by it, hosting an" hostile. As oni #egri says “the new face of 'ro"uctive labor(intellectual, relational, linguistic, an" aDective, rather than 'hysical, in"ivi"ual, muscular, instrumental "oes notun"erstate but accentuates the cor'orality an" materiality of labor.% :ut accumulating collective cognitive an"aDective labor from these highly communicable ;W he @n"ercommons "iDerences is not the same as accumulatingbio'olitical bo"ies that labor. CiDerences here matter not for or"er, but or"er matters for "iDerences. he or"er thatcollects "iDerences, the or"er that collects what !ar7 calle" labor still ob=ectifying itself, is the or"er of governance.

1*. :ut governance collects li"e a drill oring for samples. Governance is aform of prospecting for this immaterial laor. *mmaterial laor is opa3ueto state-thought until it ecomes laor-power! e0changeale potentiality.*mmaterial laor could easily e mista"en for life! which is why theiopolitical must ta"e a new form. A form that provo"es life to give up this

new potential. +orporate social responsiility is sincere . The invitation togovernmentality is made y way of transfer of responsiility ! an" immaterial laboris "istinguishe" from the vitality of life, from its vessel, by the ta5ing u' of res'onsibility, an" life is now"istinguishe" by its overt irres'onsibility. Since neither the state nor ca'ital 5now where to uacious an" in"ustrial labor was mute. 9overnance 'o'ulations are gregarious. 9regariousness is the e7changeform of immaterial labor+'ower, a labor+'ower summone" by interests from a communicability without interest, aviral communicability, a beat. he com'ulsion to tell us how you feel is the com'ulsion of labor, not citi?enshi',e7'loitation not "omination, an" it is whiteness. Fhiteness is why 6a??arato "oes not hear in"ustrial labor.Fhiteness is nothing but a relationshi' to blac5ness as we have trie" to "escribe ;B he @n"ercommons it here, butin 'articular a relationshi' to blac5ness in its relationshi' to ca'ital, which is to say the movement from mutenessto "umb insolence which may be by way of bringing the noise. :ut the noise of tal5, white noise, the information+rich environment of the gregarious, comes from sub=ectivities forme" of ob=ecti


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immaterial labor. Governance is the e0tension of whitenesson a gloal scale.

The su'ugation of the lac" female not the notion of io-

politics is what shapes the relation of the world. (ocusing onthe notion of io-politics oth oscures and participates in thesystem of ause against lac"s. *t participates in the systemy giving a paradigmatic analysis that elides the condition ofthose that have een raced and su'ugated not legally nornormatively ut ontologically.Se0ton$14

($are" Se7ton, is a 'rofessor at al Irvine. 8eo'le of olor+blin"ness, #otes on theafterlife of slavery, 'g. *2+**

Fhat is this 6ctionL It is not only the presumed identity etween the human (?oe and the citi7en (biosthe conceptual 6ssure that ma"es possile themodern production of are lifean" that between nativity an" nationalitytheconceptual distinction that ma"es possile the reciprocal naturali7ation ofpropagation and property in the name of race. *t is also the conation ofthe ruler (or ruling class with sovereignty itself , the tautological claim thatthe law (logos is ontologically prior to the estalishment of its 'urisdictional 6eld, a space de6ned y relations of purely formaloedience. he state of e7ce'tion woul" seem to betray the mystical foun"ation of authority because the sovereign 'ower o'erates in sus'ension of 'ositive law,enforcing the law 'ara"o7ically insofar as it is ina''licable at the time an" 'lace ofits enforcement. 3owever, the "ynamic stability of that foun"ationthe s'ace ofobe"ienceis "emonstrate" by the terrible fact that the state of e7ce'tion hasbeen materiali?e" re'eate"ly within a whole array of 'olitical formations across the'rece"ing century an" in the 'articular form of the cam'. ith the irth of thecamp ! the e0ception ecomes the rule ! consolidating a 6eld of oediencein e0tremis Rin place of rule y law! a paradigm of governance y theadministration of the asence of order.; 3owever, if for Agamben the cam' is“the new bio'olitical nomos of the 'lanet,% its novelty "oes not esca'e a certainconce'tual belate"ness with res'ect to those “re'resse" to'ogra'hies of cruelty%that Achille !bembe has i"enti


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of e7ce'tion in “the very structure of the 'lantation system an" its aftermath.%)!bembe aban"ons too >uic5ly this me"itation on the 'eculiar institution in 'ursuitof the 'ro'er focus of his theoretical 'ro=ect& the formation of colonial sovereignty.In the 'rocess, he loses trac5 of the fact, set forth in the o'ening 'ages of3artman/s stu"y, that the crucial aspects of /the peculiar terror formation%that !bembe attributes to the emergence of Social e7t 8ublishe" by Cu5e

@niversity 8ress ocial e7t 10* Summer 2010 * * colonial rule are alreadyinstitutionali7ed, 'erha's more fun"amentally, in an" as the political-'uridicalstructure of slavery.K !ore speci6cally! it is the legal and political status of the captive female that is paradigmatic for the /8re9production ofenslavement! in which /the normativity of se0ual violence Xi.e., the virtualabsence of 'rohibitions or limitations in the "etermination of socially tolerable an"necessary violenceY estalishes an ine0tricale lin" etween racial formationand se0ual su'ection.%10 This is why for 3artman resistance is 6guredthrough the lac" female$s se0ual self-defense ! as e0empli6ed y the 1JFFcircuit court case State of ,issouri v. +elia! a Slave! in which thedefendant was sentenced to death y hanging on the charge of murder forresponding with deadly force to the se0ual assault and attempted rape y

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,ilitari7ation

,ilitari7ation *s a reproduction of violence onto the lac". Themoment of militari7ation 6nds coherence in the authority that

is ased up on the su'ugation of lac"ness. *t is thiscentrali7ation of authority that recreates a structure where thelac"s are created as static malicious enemies thuslegitimi7ing their slaughter.(anon$4J(-rant? -anon, -rant? mar -anon was a !artini>ue+born Afro+aribbean'sychiatrist, 'hiloso'her, revolutionary, an" writer whose wor5s are in4uential inthe


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ma5es it im'ossible to recogni?e in other wor"s, the re'resse" thought is re'lace" in consciousness by anotherthat acts as its surrogate, its rsat?, an" that soon surroun"s itself with all those feelings of morbi"ity that ha" beensu''ose"ly averte" by the re'ression. hese rlebnisse are re'resse" in the unconscious. Fhat "o we see in thecase of the blac5 manL @nless we ma5e use of that frightening 'ostulatewhich so "estroys our balance oDere"

by $ung, the collective unconscious, we can un"erstan" absolutely nothing. A drama is enacted everyday in coloni7ed countries. 3ow is one to e7'lain, for e7am'le, that a #egro who has 'asse" hisbaccalaureate an" has gone to the Sorbonne to stu"y to become a teacher of 'hiloso'hy is alrea"y on guar" before

any con4 ictual elements have coalesce" roun" himL Ren !nil accounte" for this reaction in 3egelian terms. Inhis view it was “the conse3uence of the replacement of the repressed VAfricanWspirit in the consciousness of the slave y an authority symolrepresenting the ,aster ! a symol implanted in the susoil of thecollective group and charged with maintaining order in it as a garrisoncontrols a con3uered city.%;2


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)evolutionary suicide is an idealism to re'ect the ause thatlac" esh is su'ected to. *t is standing up for thedowntrodden! it is freedom to decide what happens to thelac" community *t is an outcry for the relief of police rutality. @ewton$<(#ewton, 3uey 8., 3uey was the foun"er of the :lac5 8anther 'arty in the late B0/searly H0/s. Revolutionary Suici"e. Revise"7'an"e" e". #ew Nor5& 3arcourt :race

$ovanovich, 1KH*. 8rint. 8g. 11B

his is the 'rogram we wrote "own& :R 1KBB :6AE 8A#3R 8ARN 86A-R! A#C 8R9RA! F3A FFA# F3A F :6IPam on 'a'er+ hat the alternative loo"s li"e 8resente" as the !anifestoto the :lac5 8anthers. 1. e want freedom . e want power to determine thedestiny of our ;lac" +ommunity . Fe believe that :lac5 'eo'le will not be free until we are able to"etermine our "estiny. 2. Fe want full em'loyment for our 'eo'le. Fe believe that the fe"eral government isres'onsible an" obligate" to give every man em'loyment or a guarantee" income. Fe believe that if the white

American businessmen will not give full em'loyment, then the means of production should eta"en from the usinessmen and placed in the community so that thepeople of the community can organi7e and employ all of its people andgive a high standard of living. *. Fe want an end to the roery by the ca'italist ofour ;lac" community. Fe believe that this racist government has robbe" us an" now we are "eman"ingthe over"ue "ebt of forty acres an" two mules. -orty acres an" two mules were 'romise" 100 years ago asrestitution for slave labor an" mass mur"er of :lac5 'eo'le. Fe will acce't the 'ayment in currency which will be

"istribute" to our many communities. he 9ermans are now ai"ing the $ews in Israel for the genoci"e of the $ewish'eo'le. he 9ermans mur"ere" si7 million $ews. he American racist has ta5en 'art in the slaughter of over


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onstitution of the @nite" States. Fe believe that the courts shoul" follow the @nite" States onstitution so that:lac5 'eo'le will receive fair trials. he -ourteenth Amen"ment of the @.S. onstitution gives a man a right to betrie" by his 'eer grou'. A 'eer is a 'erson from a similar economic, social, religious, geogra'hical, environmental,historical, an" racial bac5groun". o "o this the court will be force" to select a =ury from the :lac5 community fromwhich the :lac5 "efen"ant came. Fe have been an" are being trie" by all+white =uries that have no un"erstan"ingof the “average reasoning man% of the :lac5 community. 10. Fe want lan", brea", housing, e"ucation, clothing,

=ustice, an" 'eace. An" as our ma=or 'olitical ob=ective, a @nite" #ations+su'ervise" 'lebiscite to be hel"throughout the :lac5 colony in which only :lac5 colonial sub=ects will be allowe" to 'artici'ate, for the 'ur'ose of

"etermining the will of :lac5 'eo'le as to their national "estiny. Fhen, in the course of humanevents! it ecomes necessary for one people to dissolve the politicalands which have connected them with another, an" to assume, among the 'owers ofthe earth, the se'arate an" e>ual station to which the laws of nature an" nature/s 9o" entitle them, a "ecentres'ect to the o'inions of man5in" re>uires that they shoul" "eclare the causes which im'el them to these'aration. Fe hol" these truths to be self+evi"ent, that all men are create" e>ual that they are en"owe" by their

reator with certain un alienable rights that among these are life, liberty, an" the 'ursuit of ha''iness. hat, tosecure these rights! government s are instituted among men! derivingtheir 'ust powers from the consent of the governedO that! whenever anyform of government ecomes destructive of these ends! it is the right ofthe people to alter or to aolish it, an" to institute a new government, laying its foun"ation onsuch 'rinci'les, an" organi?ing its 'owers in such form, as to them shall seem most li5ely to eDect their safety an"ha''iness. 8ru"ence, in"ee", will "ictate that governments long establishe" shoul" not be change" for light an"transient causes an", accor"ingly, all e7'erience hath shown, that man5in" are more "is'ose" to suDer, while evils

are suDerable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustome". :ut, when along train of auses an" usur'ations, 'ursuing invariably the same ob=ect, evinces a design toreduce them under asolute despotism! it is their right, it is their duty! to throwoN such government! and to provide new guards for their future security .Fith the 'rogram on 'a'er, we set u' the structure of our organi?ation.


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=erm +oalitions

The coalition is parasitic on those odies mar"ed y antilac"ness. This parasitism ta"es the energy away from the

lac" ody and diverts it ac" to the hands of the oppressivesystem of anti lac"ness.ilderson$1Q( -ran5 :. Fil"erson III, -ran5 :. Fil"erson is a tenure" 'rofessor at the @niversity of alifornia Irvine . 3e has atten"e" the @niversity of olombia where he got a "egreein 'sychology. his is a transci'tion of an ra"io interview with -ran5 :. Fil"erson, IIIta'e" in ctober of 201W, in the mi"st of the ongoing anti+'olice struggles ta5ing'lace in -erguson, !. Fil"erson is in conversation with I!IQF3AI6IE hosts $are":all, o"" Steven :urroughs an" Cr. 3ate. An au"io recor"ing of the interview canbe foun" un"er the title “Irreconcilable Anti+:lac5ness an" 8olice Piolence% on theshow/s website&htt'&imi7whatili5e.org201W1001fran5wil"ersonan"antiblac5ness+2 ranscri'tion

an" ?ine layout by Ill Fill "itions, #ovember 201W. !inor e"its have been ma"e forlength an" rea"ability. he following is from 'gs.20

* had a moment li"e this myself . Nou 5now, you loo" to go 'oin up with the*S& XInternational Socialist rgani?ationY or some other white radical group, orrainbow grou', an" you start to feel it happening. So many people have hadthis e0perience of organi7ing with white radicals. ;ut here you add Arasand =alestinians ! and here you$re going to (a''ro'riately send shivers upsome spines. An" I fully agree with what you/re saying, but can you hel' meres'on" to fol5s who won/t right awayL -F& ne of the things that they/re gonnasay to you even if it/s not in these wor"s, it remains the framewor5 throughwhich they try to "isci'line :lac5 'eo'le, e.g. Sartre sai" it to the #egritu"emovement an" to -anon is& [you 5now, this whole thing aout ;lac"ness! isreally narrow! and it$s not allowing you to see the igger picture. An" so weegin to feel ad! ecause we don$t want to e narrow or people whodon$t see the igger picture. That$s what politics an" struggle is all about, i.e.developing a theory of struggle that can e generali7ed. #ow, it ta5es somewor5, an" the wor5 at an intellectual level is har", but it/s 'robably more "iGcult to"eal with it at an emotional level, one of the things I woul" say to respond to thisperson is& [how is the paradigm of colonialism! or the paradigm of ,ar0ismmore essential than the paradigm of anti-;lac"ness and social deathL/ hisis very "iGcult for American activists, because American activists "on/t rea", they

=ust go out an" say, ["o we brea5 Starbuc5s win"ows, or "o we not brea5 Starbuc5swin"owsL/, that/s the e7tent an" level of their intellectual 'olitics. So, here I/mshifting the weight from me to the other 'erson, to actually e7'lain to me theirtheoretical a''aratus. #ot =ust e7'lain to me what this action in this moment isgoing to "o. An" normally, when it comes "own to it, you 6nd that theirtheoretical apparatus wor"s along aout four diNerent vectors. ne woul"be the 'ost+colonial vector& [my theoretical a''aratus is that coloni?ation has "one7, y an" ?/ or 20 else, [ca'italism at the site of the wage relation e7'loits everyoneuniversally/ or, [ecologically, we will have no worl" if 7, y or ? ha''ens/ or, [we areall suDering un"er 'atriarchy/. ;ut then if you as" them! Yhow did ;lac" people


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ecome part of the eL/, a rea"down occurs here, since the structure oftheir desire is formulated on a conception of community that is a priorianti-;lac" . So that they/re not actually thin5ing in terms of the ways in which wesuDer. An" in fact! their political pro'ects will lierate one terrain! andintensify our suNering more y eing parasitic on our inaility to spea"and on the ;lac" energy that we lend to their 3uestions and which crowd

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=erm Uses the 2aw

The 2aw is a death sentence for lac"s. The spectacular usesof the law serve to reinforce the paradigm of policing that

functions to murder lac" odies. *t does not matter if the lawis used as ma"ing or ta"ing a law! as long as the authority ofthe law e0ists Beath with will e impact for lac"s.Tis and oods$4J(ryon 8. Foo"s is a 'rofessor at Sonoma State @niversity Conal" -. ibbs is a'rofessor at Cre7el arle !ac5 School of 6aw ctober 1, 200) Seattle $ournal forSocial In=ustice, Pol. H, #o. 1, 200) he $ena Si7 an" :lac5 8unishment& 6aw an" Raw6ife in the Comain of #one7istence

)eviewing the history of the lac" e0perience efore the law clearlydemonstrates that the Pena Si0 case is anything ut unprecedented . @.S.history features a consistent storyline regarding lac"s and the law, largelyundeviated fromone which historian !ary -rances :erry referre" to as “lac" resistance VtoWwhite law.%W1 :erry reminds us that /VwWhether its policy was action orinaction ! the national government has used the +onstitution in such a wayas to ma"e law the instrument for maintaining a racist status 3uo .%W2 he $enaSi7 case =oins this long history of constitutional s'ectaclesmoments where the law is revealednot as the protector of minority rights! as lieral historiographers andphilosophers would have us elieveQ


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steadfastly maintain these men$s guilt despite the irrefutale scienti6cevidence! and the numerous anonymous men and women condemned priorto the recent era of technological advances in forensic criminologyRtheseare the signs of raw life in the domain of none0istence.;W To focus on anyone of these spectacles is to deploy! and therey rearm! the logic of thelaw itself . Cocumenting the law/s e7cesses, in an attem't to e7'lain the 'ara"igm of white su'remacistviolence, merely ren"ers it non'ara"igmatic, an" re"uces it to the frau"ulent ethics on which the law bases itsongoing hegemony. hat ma"es the spectacle /spectacular is precisely that theessential logic of the law remains unsha"en . Such discrete e0amplescannot represent the spectrum in which this paradigm manifests todayRwhat might e called the /paradigm of policing FFRfrom the e0plicitviolence of police homicides to the more sutle violence of the Pena Si0case and the faceless millions held captive y the prison industrialcomple0. This violence against the lac" ody is structural andfoundational to U.S. societyRnot contingent or e0cessiveR and it is thisanal ut essential 3uality to racism that the spectacular e0amples renderunrecogni7ale .


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All you tal" aout is lac" people

The invocation of lac" hierarchical positioning recreates whitesupremacy.

Se0ton$4J(Se7ton, $are", Amalgamation Schemes Antiblac5ness an" the riti>ue of!ultiracacialism, !innea'olis& @ of !innesota. 200). $are" Se7ton is a 'rofessor atal Irvine. 8g. 10H

Stephens is suggest ing that in >uestioning the motive force an" 'olit+ ical tra=ectory of multiracialism,lac"s now enforce the same /&ne Brop rule that whites once a"here" toa hun"re"years agobut have since collectively aban"one". hat is, we are witnessing the emergence of a new system ofo''ression, “the construction of the [racial/ out of the "enial of the [interracial,/% not in a""ition to white su'remacy

but in 'lace of it.How- ever! the telling insistence that this regime changerepresents /a signi6cant irony undermines Stephens$s entire diagnosis.-or what len"s this new "is'ensation its irony is the fact that the agents of the current/denial of the Yinterracial!$ /Afro-Americans! were previously the targets

of /ante- ellum antimiscegenation.% hat is, Ste'hens here im'lies that antimis+ cegenation isa historic com'onent of white su'remacy an" antiblac5ness, not an autonomous re'ression of mi7ture that blac5s

an" whites might commonly en"orse on e>ual footing. *f lac"s were /now to ta"e up theposition occupied y whites /a century ago! they would have had toinvert the social order completely! reversing the terms of its /une3ualpower relations.


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)ace not Dey

The system has never een colorlind! and their assertion thatwe can e a color lind society only serves to further deny the

lac" rights and protection.Hartman$I(3artman, Sai"iya P.. Scenes of sub=ection& terror, slavery, an" self+ma5ing innineteenth+century America. #ew Nor5& 7for" @niversity 8ress, 1KKH. 8rint. 8g.1)B+1)H

Apparent in the ta0onomies of race that roun" their way in to the law offreedom were the contradictions that shaped the emergent vision of lac"e3uality. As it turne" out, the /e3ual protection of the law ! aleit intended tocorrect the violation of lac" lierty enacted in the ;lac" codes! socialcustoms! and other forms of practice! did not consider these classi6catoryschemasin 'articular the legal classi


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)a7antamont

#es! we are angry and eternally hopeful for the future. Theonly place for lac"s to inhait is a place where we are this

way. To say that this means all of our struggles aremeaningless is an emodiment of white distancing. *t onlyserves as a way to get away with racist theori7ation ecausewe are the /Angry lac" professor

#ancy$1%(9eorge Nancy is 8rofessor of 8hiloso'hy at Cu>uesne @niversity an" oor"inator ofthe ritical Race heory S'ea5er Series. 3e is the author of :lac5 :o"ies, Fhite9a?es& he ontinuing Signiuesne @niversity 8resi"ential Awar" for

7cellence in Scholarshi' Nancy, 9eorge. 6oo5, a FhiteZ& 8hiloso'hical ssays onFhiteness. 8hila"el'hia& em'le @8, 2012. Feb 'g. 1;*+1;W

!y sense is that my /anger functioned as the fulcrum around which theprofessor$s entire narrative of my tal" revolved . He could see only my/anger . *n /seeing only my /anger ! he not only failed to hear me utalso ! in the process! managed to shore up his whiteness . In other wor"s, “* seean angry lac" professor can e theori7ed as an instance of distancingwhiteness from e0amination and criti3ue! of safeguarding whiteness. 3ence,“* see an angry lac" professor can e descried as the deployment8whether consciously or unconsciously9 of a white /distancing strategy to/avoid eing positioned as racist or implicated in systemic oppression.%2Curing the tal5, 'art of my ob=ective, as on many other occasions when the theme has to "o with racism an" racialembo"iment, was to 'ut white ness on "is'lay, to mar5 it, to counter+ga?e from the 'ers'ective of critical blac5male sub=ectivity. !ar5ing whiteness in the 'resence of whites can be a 'rofoun"ly "is>uieting e7'erience for them,es'ecially when the agent "oing the mar5ing is a 'erson of colorin this case, a blac5 male. As race" an"engen"ere", I am a blac5 male 'rofessor, an" yet I am also the “hy'erse7ual beast,% the “ra'er of white women,%the “sha"ow lur5ing in the "ar5.% he conte7t can become "ownright volatile. “I see an angry blac5 'rofessorZ%

functioned to erase my critical su'ectivity. I felt the shoc" and sting of grossmisrecognition. * ecame the 3uintessential angry lac" man! a powerfulracist trope that signi6ed that * was out of control and possily in need ofdiscipline. 8erha's for this 'rofessor an" for other whites too timi" to voice their views, I was the e'itome ofthe raging blac5 male on the 'reci'ice of violence, the aca"emic Fillie 3orton. owar" the en" of my tal5, another

white male 'rofessor, this time an ol"er gentleman, felt that I ha" faile" members of the au"ience. He said !and one could sense the irritation in his voice! / #ou leave us with nohope . In fact, he inferre" from this that I must be angry because I "i" not tal5 about ways to "eal eDectively

with white racism, ways of overcoming it. he faulty inference asi"e, * responded! /hy do youwant hopeL ,y o'ective here is not to ring white people hope! to ma"ethem wal" away feeling good aout themselves.% 3e reiterate", “hen you must beangryZ% Hope has always played an essential e0istential role in the lives oflac" people living in white America. ;lac" people have long reelledagainst the asurdity of white racism through a lues sensiility thatcontinues to emphasi7e the power of transcendence through hope. hus, it wasnot that I was unfamiliar or unconcerne" with the 'ower of ho'e, that incredile capacity to loo"asurdity in the face and yet arm life. Rather, I was curi ous about the function of this ol"er


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'rofessor/s "esire that I shoul" have left my au"ience with ho'e. In"ee", for me, “I see an angry blac5 'rofessorZ%

an" “ #ou leave us with no hope functioned as two sites of whiteofuscation. *n the former case, as alrea"y argue", * was reduced to the mythicalangry lac" male ! a one-dimensional caricature! rendering all that * had tosay aout whiteness and white racism of little or no value. The latter casefunctioned to elide the gravitas of the immediacy of lac" pain and

suNering and the viru lent ways in which white racism continues tofunction with such fre3uency in our contemporary moment. In my analysis, bothmen faile" to tarry with the reality of racism an" the 'rofoun" ways in which 'eo'le of color must en"ure it.


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