Coppell BK – Affirmative – Reparations
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to so-called sub-Saharan Africa.
Chapter 1: The Apartheid Past
The public health failures in Africa are a result of ongoing US colonialism. The US must address the question of reparations to recognize and reconcile centuries of apartheid.
Africa Action "Reparations" 2007 (http://www.africaaction.org/resources/issues/reparations.php)
“Today’s massive global inequalities. ….. …. consequences of centuries of global apartheid.”
And, the on-going colonial effects on Africa's public health demands assistance as reparations.
Steve Miller, The Washington Times, September 11, 2001.
“"We can document, to this day,….. to rebuilding public health systems in Africa.”
Public Health assistance development is necessary for autonomy from the politico-economic hegemony the counterplan re-entrenches.
M. Shamsul Haque, PhD in Public Administration from University of Souther Californa, 1999 (“Restructuring Development Theories and Policies”)
“Following such a theoretical restructuring…”
And, this continued colonialism contributes to immeasurable dehumanization and death
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu 5 September 2001
Ecumenical caucus statement at World Conference Against Racism http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?id=2442.)
“Racism dehumanizes, disempowers, marginalizes….. the victims of racism, past and present.”
Chapter 2: We must confront our privilege
Representation shapes the way policies towards Africa are created – representations of Africa as the "Other" justifies cultural domination – we must question our framing and representations in the context of Africa.
Lucy Jarosz, University of Washington Department of Geography, 1992, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, Vol. 74, No. 2., p. 105-115, JSTOR
“Writing and representations are at the heart of…”
We must not make excuses, Putting ourselves first continues colonialism, these excuses are the cause of violence in Africa.
Riat Abrahamsen, Department of Internatino Politics – University of Wales, 2005, Alternatives 30, Blair's Africa: "The Polics of Securitization of Fear"
“The process of securitization does not necessarily…”
Even if we didn’t commit the racist acts we still must hold the government responsible because of the economic benefits of colonialism
Human right watch, 2001 (An Approach to Reparations, http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/07/19/global285.htm
“Once the appropriate beneficiaries of reparations…. since they, too, presumably have benefited from the advanced economy they joined.”
All of the reasons why reparations could be impractical just describe the necessity for reparations.
Martha Biondi, member of the Department of African American Studies, 2003 “The Rise of the Reparations Movement”, http://rhr.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/2003/87/5.pdf
And, many arguments against action should be considered as nothing more than excuses for racism. The response is to confront racism by acting and taking steps to avoid the excuses.
Nicholas Soucy © 2004.
Historical Lies & Excuses: An Examination of the Illogical Justification for Bigotry
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/bigotry_article.html
“As decades pass and as critical evaluation of historical documents is done…. responsibility for choosing immorality, and working to deny this choice in the future.”
And, Err of the side of probable impacts - their so called experts don’t understand the future of political affairs and cannot accurately predict events. They are as accurate as monkey’s throwing dart.
Menand 2005 (Louis ,phd Colombia and Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University., The New Yorker, 12-05-2005, http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/051205crbo_books1 )
Prediction is one of the pleasures of life. Conversation would wither without it… Think for yourself.”
And, suppressing phrase like “sub-Saharan” because it is offensive preserves its injurious meaning – only by using the language can space be opened to reconstruct a more humane meaning – terms like ‘so-called’ are key to acknowledge the arbitrariness of colonially constructed boundaries.
John Agnew, professor at University of California, Los Angeles, “Progress in Human Geography,” 28,5 (2004) pp. 619–640.
“The question inevitably arises as to…. but with his failure to note its novelty.”
Finally, a discourse of reparations is necessary to breakdown the colonial relationship with Africa, responses should not be to fear spending we can not increase taxes or interest rates not reject reparations, rather realize voting aff is to reject all colonialism.
Salih Booker, executive director of Africa Action. June 19, 2003 (Who owes whom? AIDS and reparations Christian Science Monitor, http://www.africaaction.org/desk/csm0306.htm).
“The movement for reparations in the US… that the AIDS pandemic requires.”
Health assistance is inevitable – people want assistance – the question should not be whether but how to give aid
Richard Peet, BSc (economics from the London School of Economic, 1999, “Theories of Development”)
“In the case of development, however…. it emerges in quit different forms depending on circumstance.”
Major war is obsolete – there’s no risk of war between powerful members of the international system due to the high costs of war and the steep decline in the rewards from winning
Mandelbaum 99 (Michael Mandelbaum, Prof. American Foreign Policy John Hopkins University, Spring 1999, “Is major war obsolete?” Survival Vol: 48)
“It is major war, not war in general…. of fighting a major war: and a steep decline in the rewards of winning one.”
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