Anthony Conwright

Check out my latest essay and first for @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump Misunderstands the Education Department’s History.”

Thank you for reading and sharing it.

💯 Some of the comments on this are wild. You would have thought that I just made up the information in the pictures, and not that I took the information from AIPAC, who was celebrating it! People are mad at me as if I’m the one going after Black politicians!

Yet to this day, the Congressional Black Caucus—the long-standing corps of lawmakers dedicated to safeguarding civil rights (and known as “the conscience of Congress”)—has not issued a formal declaration condemning Israel; it hasn’t even produced a statement calling for a ceasefire. The CBC’s silence isn’t accidental: More than half of its current 61 members have been endorsed or funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful US lobbying arm for Israel’s agenda. In the 2023–24 election cycle alone, AIPAC endorsed 26 of the caucus’s members, raising $4.6 million for them and another $3.5 million for Black Democratic candidates.

The Congressional Black Caucus’s silent partnership with AIPAC

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The Congressional Black Caucus’s Silent Partnership With AIPAC The influential group of lawmakers has damaged its reputation as “conscience of the Congress” by staying silent on the Gaza genocide.

I spoke with @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social for my latest essay in @thenation.com about AIPAC’s relationship with the Congressional Black Caucus. Check it out: “The Congressional Black Caucus’s Silent Partnership With AIPAC”

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The Decisive Moment, by Chris Lehmann Why Congress must impeach Trump

No Kings! Why Congress must impeach Trump by the best political writer in the game @chrislehmann.bsky.social

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Huge thank you to @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for including me in this piece.

“The experience of Black Americans calls into question the institutions that this country holds most sacred,” Conwright said.

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Thank you for sharing! Indeed, ICE must be abolished!! It’s one of the topics of my next piece.

Thank you! I’ll keep my fingers crossed about having another appearance 🤞🏾

Will Black Americans Vote For A Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? | Anthony Conwright | TMR
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Thank you for tuning in! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for another appearance 🤞🏾 love the show and the audience!

Some thoughts about and Gregory Meeks supporting Andrew Cuomo. I will be ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1

Thank you for reading and sharing! That surprised me too! I could not believe this man was allowed to do a tour of Black churches and tell Black voters to temper their expectations.

Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? By demeaning the mayoral candidate’s agenda, Andrew Cuomo offends the Black tradition of community care.

My latest for @thenation.com: Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? “To put it plainly, the myth that Black Americans can only support establishment Democrats has conditioned us to take our suffering—which is a result of capitalism—for granted.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Yesterday, I was like “why am I doing this to myself” 😂 you know it’s bad when you’re like “maybe I should have kept teaching middle school!

It is inconsistent for Democrats to want to “set politics aside.” To pretend that politics has no place in the discourse regarding Biden’s diagnosis is disingenuous. When Republicans say “not a time to play politics” after a mass shooting, Democrats RIGHTFULLY condemn them.

Now, because it’s a president that they like they are choosing to be privilege blind.

Compassion and criticism are not mutually exclusive. Democrats can have compassion for Biden AND question how his healthcare policies impacted people suffering from cancer without his resources. After all, Democrats were quick to point out “white privilege” in every aspect of American life.

The liberators don’t have the power to enact. In other words, if a liberator must ask for the change, if they must protest the oppressor, then “liberation” is impossible because the resistance must be permitted to trigger change.

That’s where I struggle. I don’t think the change you are talking about is liberation. IE: 13th amendment was a change, but not liberation. I agree that both methods have merit, but I would not equate it with liberation. It seems to fit more into “change,” which

Some of those movements could not fight oppression outside of the grammar of their colonizers, which is why I question what means to be liberated and to fight for it. I’m not against liberation as a sentiment but I’m not sure if we all understand what it means ….

Your answer is what drives my question: if the history is the path, why are we still fighting for liberation? If we look in America, we often say things like “violence” isn’t the way to achieve liberation-although violence sustains oppression.

I get that part. I don’t know what that actually looks like. What does it look like to “fight” without/outside of the rules that facilitate the oppression?

I understand the sentiment, and I wonder if we actually know what “liberation” means. I go back and forth on using the word because I think it’s often used as synonym for something else that we don’t really have language/politics for.

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YouTube video by Anthony Conwright Pushing David Hogg out? What’s happening with David Hogg, Malcolm Kenyatta, DNC Vice Chair Vote.

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