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"This tournament was a culmination of years of innate and not-so-well concealed racism within the debate community that came to a head," says Daniel Edwards, the Morehouse College team captain.
Morehouse College Speech and Debate Program
Originally published on April 30, 2021 6:11 pm
The debate over race in America has reached the world of competitive debate itself, as the team from Morehouse College withdrew from a national tournament after members say they experienced mockery, bias and dismissal. Other teams followed Morehouse s departure from the tournament, leading to its cancellation and a forum about race in the debate community.
The speech and debate team of the historically Black men s college had been competing in British Parliamentary style debate at the United States Universities Debate Championship 2021 earlier this month. The tournament was conducted virtually over Zoom. The incident was first reported by The Undefeated.
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