1AC War on Bodies of Color

Contention One is the War on Bodies of Color

1971 - Nixon declared "drug abuse" to be public enemy number one but within white
conscious the colored body had always been Americas most wanted. The war on
marijuana is the modern manifestation of the war on the black body. Sustained
through discriminatory policing of colored communities, marijuana is the excuse the
white body uses to continue violence.
Edwards et al. 13
(Ezekiel, director, Criminal Law Reform Project; Will Bunting, fiscal policy analyst; and Lynda Garcia, Soros Justice Fellow, ACLU, THE WAR ON
MARIJUANA IN BLACK AND WHITE https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/1114413-mj-report-rfs-rel1.pdf, JL)
The first half of the War on Drugs focused largely on relentless enforcement of heroin
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simply, served as a vehicle for police to target communities of color.

Concentration of enforcement of low level offenses through incentivized targeting of
colored bodies creates the modern apartheid in criminal justice. White bodies are free
to use drugs while colored bodies are left to fear mass incarceration from minor
infractions. Legalization would gut such visible abuse.
Edwards et al. 13
(Ezekiel, director, Criminal Law Reform Project; Will Bunting, fiscal policy analyst; and Lynda Garcia, Soros Justice Fellow, ACLU, THE WAR ON
MARIJUANA IN BLACK AND WHITE https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/1114413-mj-report-rfs-rel1.pdf, JL)
Concentrated enforcement of marijuana laws based on a person's race or community has not only
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searches and seizures; and allow law enforcement to focus on serious crime."

This is an issue of intersectional marginalization. Urban, rural, north and south,
disproportional targeting transcends communities of color everywhere.
Edwards et al. 13
(Ezekiel, director, Criminal Law Reform Project; Will Bunting, fiscal policy analyst; and Lynda Garcia, Soros Justice Fellow, ACLU, THE WAR ON
MARIJUANA IN BLACK AND WHITE https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/1114413-mj-report-rfs-rel1.pdf, JL)
This report is the first to examine marijuana possession arrest rates by race for
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and youth by classifying such activities as civil, not criminal, offenses.

This is the root of the cycle of oppression and violence that exists and persists today.
What constitutes crime and who constitutes the criminal will always legitimate further
violence and the drug war is how white solidarity isolates and removes bodies of color
from society. Only by changing the focus on the colored body within criminality can
the cycle be broken.
Nunn 2
(Kenneth, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Race, Crime and the Pool of Surplus Criminality: Or Why the "War on Drugs" Was a "War
on Blacks 1/1/, 6 J. Gender Race& Just. 381 (2002), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/107, JL)
In addition, the police strategy of concentrating aggressive street-based law enforcement measures
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African Americans will always be treated unfairly by the nation's criminal laws.50

And the violence against communities of color is not purely symbolic. The war on
drugs is the root of the militarization of police forces today. Tanks, assault rifles, and
grenades all purchased to fight the war on drugs constitute the new violent tools of
oppression that are used by paramilitary forces to police colored communities.
Nunn 2
(Kenneth, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Race, Crime and the Pool of Surplus Criminality: Or Why the "War on Drugs" Was a "War
on Blacks 1/1/, 6 J. Gender Race& Just. 381 (2002), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/107, JL)
SWAT units have provided a conduit for the transfer of military techniques and materials into
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African Americans who live in the areas where these units regularly patrol.215

1AC Preventative Policing

Contention Two is Preventative Policing

The war on drugs goes beyond the militarized violence within communities of color.
The war on drugs is foundational in justifying preventative policing strategies such as
stop and frisk and detainment.
Edwards et al. 13
(Ezekiel, director, Criminal Law Reform Project; Will Bunting, fiscal policy analyst; and Lynda Garcia, Soros Justice Fellow, ACLU, THE WAR ON
MARIJUANA IN BLACK AND WHITE https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/1114413-mj-report-rfs-rel1.pdf, JL)
Law enforcement agencies have increasingly shifted their focus from traditional, reactive policing
strategies of
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whites stopped were twice more likely to be found with a weapon.111

Preventative policing is not only a violent and racist construct but props up a system
that rewards police departments for higher arrest and incarceration rates. The war on
drugs has become the financial lifeblood of the police state.
Edwards et al. 13
(Ezekiel, director, Criminal Law Reform Project; Will Bunting, fiscal policy analyst; and Lynda Garcia, Soros Justice Fellow, ACLU, THE WAR ON
MARIJUANA IN BLACK AND WHITE https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/1114413-mj-report-rfs-rel1.pdf, JL)
Law enforcement agencies can apply for JAG funds from two sources: either directly through
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funds in 1989. the arrest rate for marijuana possession has increased dramatically.

That is the foundational support of the prison industrial complex Private prisons can
only survive and thrive off of the mass incarceration of bodies.
Whitehead 12
(John, Attorney, President of The Rutherford Institute, and author of 'A Government of Wolves', Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the
Prison Industrial Complex 4/10, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/prison-privatization_b_1414467.html, JL)
In an age when freedom is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule,
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lack of due process, etc. -- will only become more acute.

The prison industrial complex is a violent cycle of oppression that must be fought and
broken down.
Davis 98
(Angela, Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex Sept. 10, Color Lines,
http://colorlines.com/archives/1998/09/masked_racism_reflections_on_the_prison_industrial_complex.html, JL)
Although prison labor which ultimately is compensated at a rate far below the minimum
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resistance to the prison industrial complex into a powerful movement for social transformation.

1AC Text

Jacob and I protest the illegality of marihuana

1AC Solvency

This is a demand against the State The aff is an anti-war protest against the violence
of the so called drug war these types of movements are intersectional and transcend
different forms of social liberation.
Heaney and Rojas-prof organizational studies and sociology, Indiana-12 (Antiwar Politics
and Paths of Activist Participation on the Left,
http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/papers/rojas_working%20paper.pdf)
Charles Tilly (1985) famously argued that war making facilitated state building because wars
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antiwar movement is much more likely to send it recruits to other movements.

The success of the war on drugs and the war on colored bodies is born out of its
ability to hide. By criticizing and advocating the stripping of the power of the state to
commit this violence we change the social construction of the colored body within the
American consciousness. This is key to shatter the edifice of racism ingrained in
society.
Nunn 2
(Kenneth, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Race, Crime and the Pool of Surplus Criminality: Or Why the "War on Drugs" Was a "War
on Blacks 1/1/, 6 J. Gender Race& Just. 381 (2002), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/107, JL)
Because of their historic connection to drugs in the American public consciousness, African Americans
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foundation of racial prejudice is shattered, the entire racist edifice will fall.

The starting point begins with epistemological ignorance. The racist violence of the
war on drugs remains hidden which requires the breaking down of epistemological
ignorance the 1AC fronts the hidden aspects of racialized violence in order to break
them down.
James 13 [Robin James is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNC Charlotte; Jun 24, 2013, at 10:44
am; Stop And Drone; http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/06/24/stop-and-drone/]
We make such bad calls when we rely on mainstream common sense because
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racial societys hand, making it come clean about its ongoing racism.