Anthony Conwright @aeconwright Twitter profile

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Anthony Conwright

1 year

Read my latest for @MotherJones “Negrophile”: the right’s original word for “woke” “The right has supplanted the epithet with what it now derides as “wokeness,” reviving the Southern notion of negrophilia as a righteous fixation on race.”

"Negrophile": the right's original word for "woke"

Favorite slur too racist? Replace it.

www.motherjones.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

You can get society used to anything. With all the present and past twitter outrage, the fact that country isn’t on fire is an indictment on us. I don’t know why the question “how many more kids will it take?” is directed everywhere except a mirror.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

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It is crazy that people responding to my post about @MalcolmNance seem to believe that caring about Palestinians is incompatible with being a member of the Democratic Party. Literally, their response to the most banal espousal of compassion toward Palestinians is “you must want

Mehdi Hasan

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You’re a partisan warmongering idiot. Me pointing out that people in MI are deeply upset because multiple relatives of theirs have been killed by an Israeli military machine that you blindly support doesn’t mean I want Trump, it means I am worried Dems won’t be able to stop him

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I wish the @January6thCmte committee would have focused on white grievance as much as the 1875 committee, but the committees had different aims. One thing is certain: the 1875 committee was right about its findings on white supremacy and white grievance. We should listen.

Clara Jeffery

@ClaraJeffery

2 years

1/ HIGHLY recommend you watch/read these pieces by @garrison_hayes and @aeconwright , on the parallels between the Mississippi coup of 1875 and January 6, both of which were about maintaining white power:

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

5 months

It is striking that some people are saying “students are not learning” as a way to criticize the student protest on college campuses. Dare I say, they had to “learn” something to take a position and protest? PROTEST CAN BE AN EXHIBITION OF STUDENT LEARNING!

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

Check out my latest essay in @MotherJones about the history of white people forming committees and using school boards to stop racial progress.

Mother Jones

@MotherJones

3 years

Our history of letting white Americans veto racial progress in schools

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

So…. I just got married.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

This essay is part of a larger story that I’ve been thinking about since 2020. This piece captures one part of that story, which is how the role of myths about America cohered violence on Jan 6. So happy @MotherJones gave this essay a home. Check it out.

Mother Jones

@MotherJones

2 years

American myths are made of white grievance—and Trump's Big Lie is just the latest

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

6 years

@BavarBall @mcbrown32 @DanBazik @RealSkipBayless Yes it does matter. Gotta face facts. Lebron may not actually be as good at making other players as good as the narrative suggest. Golden State is better because the way they play makes everyone better.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

6 years

@mcbrown32 @DanBazik @BavarBall @RealSkipBayless How many Hall of Famers did Lebron have in Miami?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Check out my latest for ⁦ @AAPolicyForum ⁩: The Trouble with White Fragility Discourse | The Forum “the original tenets of CRT are in no way premised on “white guilt,” “white privilege,” or the need for white people to interrogate their identity.”

The Trouble with White Fragility Discourse | The Forum

Why HR divisions can’t be on the vanguard of racial reform. By Anthony Conwright.

www.aapf.org

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Very angry writing is sometimes the best writing. This is an example.

Clara Jeffery

@ClaraJeffery

2 years

I pretty much only take the time to write when I am very angry. And I am fucking LIVID. So here's an incomplete list of all the other people with blood on their hands.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Speaking of pardons, here is something I wrote for @MotherJones a little while ago.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

@marclamonthill Also... I didn't want to say it but that was a white, liberal response. She reverted to a conservative talking point (using data to sidestep one's own benefit from racism). I feel like she could have said, "my readership is also a product of racism and white fragility too."

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 month

I wrote this piece for @newrepublic about Trump, Harris, and race. "It must be a relief to be Donald Trump, just as it is to be white. He need not speak, eat, walk, or dress in a “white” way to prove his whiteness. He just is: white. Such liberty of

Trump Is Trying to Rob Kamala Harris of Her Blackness

He is simultaneously arguing that the vice president is not Black enough and that she’s exploiting her race.

newrepublic.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

6 months

Indeed! Revisit this piece I wrote for @MotherJones … No matter what you call an act of caring about Black people, it will receive backlash. When you think about backlash as an act of “negrophobia,” the right’s obsession with anything concerning black people makes sense.

Mother Jones

@MotherJones

6 months

Is your favorite slur too racist? Replace it. As the right slowly fades out "woke" for "DEI", let's revisit @aeconwright 's piece about how conservatives rebranded the word "negrophile" to "woke."

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I’m nervous and excited for my 3:30 pm EST #CRTSS22 session “The Journalist as Educator and Historian” it’s #CRT , history of education, a little Baldwin, & how to uncover historical truths about attacks on CRT and race in America. I am honored to be part of this! @AAPolicyForum

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Check out my @thenation essay on Black investors, SBF, FTX, and crypto. As I researched the juggernaut that is the American financial sector, I was consumed with the anxiety of creating wealth. I had the gift of speaking with @DarrickHamilton for the piece and I learned so much.

The Nation

@thenation

2 years

The pillaging of Black communities in pursuit of the Black dollar is part of the premise of building wealth in America.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 month

The amount of vitriol @MalcolmNance has for people who care about Palestinians is psychotic. I’m glad he changed the original post because this is unhinged. If caring about Palestinians would lead to America’s destruction, the country is already burned to the ground.

Malcolm Nance

@MalcolmNance

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Black women are going to save America AGAIN from a fascist dictator and selfish, single issue default #FreePalestine Trump voters who care so much about Gaza they will burn America to the ground and laugh at its destruction.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

Great piece by @pemalevy “Coleman’s proposed legislation would not only allow citizens to sue anyone who performs an abortion for a Missouri resident, but anyone who helps or even attempts to help a Missouri resident seek an abortion in or out of state.”

Mother Jones

@MotherJones

3 years

“Not only were the Fugitive Slave acts not held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, we see these features of the Texas law not being deemed as unconstitutional. And they mirror each other. The only difference is that time has gone by.”

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I’m living a dream that feels too good to be true. I am going to be a guest columnist with @thenation for a little bit! I’ll continue my work with @TheForumAAPF and @MotherJones , so keep up with those outlets to find my work! 🙏🏾

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

@thomaschattwill I don’t know if you have ever experienced the sort of grief that follows the murder of a loved one. If you haven’t, consider yourself lucky. I’ve followed your writing and arguments for a while and I know Twitter can be a toxic place, so I know what you are getting at with your

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

8 months

I had a great time speaking with @WalshFreedom about whether or not America is still a racist country. We may not view everything the same, but it was nice to talk through the question together. Check it out.

Joe Walsh

@WalshFreedom

8 months

He’s black. I’m white. He’s a young man. I’m an old fart. ⁦ @aeconwright ⁩ & I sat down to discuss this important question: Is America still a racist country? He says yes. I say no. And we had a really cool, respectful conversation. Have a listen.👇

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

@AndrewYang @Fwd_Party I’m sorry man, but this is so asinine. Yes, everyone is fallible but not equally dangerous. If this is the basic level of thinking you are going to present with the @Fwd_Party , you’re going to be in trouble. You should understand discrepancies in power dynamics.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

I am deeply attached to the concepts in this essay b/c it touches on an experience Black ppl have regardless of political party. It took me a long time to research and it took even longer to figure out how to craft the piece. Read it and let me know what you think.

Mother Jones

@MotherJones

1 year

"Negrophile": the right's original word for "woke"

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

Here is my latest for @thenation “We are, in short, in the pedagogic world of right-wing agitprop—which is the ultimate aim of DeSantis’s education platform: to depoliticize actually existing Black history in the name of preserving the dream’s core ideological precept of white

The Nation

@thenation

1 year

Thanks to his moral-panic legislation specifying which versions of Black history pass muster in state schools, DeSantis has ensured that students will not learn that white people were responsible for slavery.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Check out my latest essay “White Anxiety, Redefined The psychic wages of disfiguring the meaning of critical race theory” @AAPolicyForum

African American Policy Forum

@AAPolicyForum

2 years

"This core evasion of Black Americans’ humanity has become so compelling, some white people are willing to destroy their history at the cost of their own humanity." @aeconwright for @TheForumAAPF

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

Check out my first essay for @AAPolicyForum on how the Texas book ban is a tactic that goes back to the heyday of the Confederacy

African American Policy Forum

@AAPolicyForum

3 years

"Like the antebellum Southerners who viewed themselves as heroic resisters of Yankee persecution, today’s conservatives gravitate to the posture of the aggrieved victims of a stealth cultural takeover," writes @aeconwright . Read:

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

My money is on @deonteleologist @realchrisrufo ain’t ready.

Sam Hoadley-Brill

@deonteleologist

3 years

Unblock me you fucking coward @realchrisrufo I’ll debate you right now

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

@marclamonthill I understand why she used that stat, but it also points to a problem: why is it out of the 32, is she one of the most prominent? Not to discredit her work, but I don't think that stat actually says anything and kind of amplifies the point criticism.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Fellow writers or anyone curious about freelancing or interested in my random journey: I have had so many kind people help me. I promised to pay it forward. Feel free to reach out and ask anything. I don’t have advice but I can tell you how I fell on my face and got back up.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

There is no such thing as “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” You believe in forced birth or you don’t. Everyone on the left should stop using “pro-life” and if anything say “pro-forced birth.” How do we get this campaign going?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

9 months

This brilliant piece by @jrrosenb for @MotherJones is so good! It is about one thing and everything all at the same time. It makes an important point about narratives about Jan 6 and narratives about American democracy. An absolute must read.

You can't run on defending democracy if democracy is broken

Hearings aren't enough. Democrats need to prove institutions work.

www.motherjones.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

6 years

@Nightbreed023 @RealSkipBayless They didn’t win 73 games this year and still beat Bron.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Since yesterday was Lincoln’s birthday, this piece that I wrote for @thenation was on my mind: How the Party of White Reaction Brands Itself as the Party of Lincoln

How the Party of White Reaction Brands Itself as the Party of Lincoln

GOP leaders ransack the party’s past to whitewash its contemporary white-nationalist agenda.

www.thenation.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

This piece by @orientaljanedoe for @thenation is FIRE! I love works like this! They challenge values taken for granted & they do so without offering a corrective that legitimizes an unethical system; instead, they say, the value needs to be obliterated.

The Case Against Homeownership

Instead of perpetuating the Ponzi scheme of private property for some, we should be demanding economic security for all.

www.thenation.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I’ve been thinking about Black History Month and wondering what history has to offer Black people…. And what blackness has to offer history. Read my latest for @thenation “Black History vs. Black Resistance: A Quandary”

Black History vs. Black Resistance: A Quandary

Why American learning remains allergic to non-assimilationist history.

www.thenation.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Check out my latest with @AAPolicyForum “The Buffalo gunman is but the most recent navigator of the constellation of racial animus in America, and has followed its premises to its longstanding program: the infliction of domestic terror against Black Americans.”

The Forum

@TheForumAAPF

2 years

New: In the wake of the Buffalo massacre, @aeconwright writes about the lethal logic of white supremacist violence.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

My latest essay: Tyre Nichols’s Police Murder and the Pathologizing of Blackness via @thenation

Tyre Nichols’s Police Murder and the Pathologizing of Blackness

How anti-Black brutality has become the binding force of American identity.

www.thenation.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

My latest for @thenation "Men Overboard: Why the right can never outgrow the masculinity crisis." "This is the core trouble with the identity of capital-M Men: It ultimately rests on the negation of female identity.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

5 months

That Kendrick Lamar diss is an apex track. Sonically, it is a pristine work of music. And there is some irony that Drake makes music to “pacify,” and “they not like us,” a song about Drake’s alleged pedophilia, is one will be played in clubs (b/c it is a banger). A lot of ppl

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Read my latest essay “The Empty Quest for Racelessness” for @TheForumAAPF and let me know what you think. This is for all the “there is only one race: the human race” people, and for the folks who want to use ethnicity to move away from race. It all comes down to being anti-Black

The Forum

@TheForumAAPF

2 years

New on : @aeconwright argues that the right-wing romance with the ideal of racelessness conceals a deeper drive to equate full assimilation with the status of “human.”

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

💯 I wrote about this for @AAPolicyForum

Charles M. Blow

@CharlesMBlow

2 years

2/2 All of the CRT panic, book banning and anti-protest laws are a direct response to this. They are trying to push white children’s exposure to - and sympathy for - racial issues back to the dark ages of Jim Crow ignorance. It is a simple as it is shocking.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

This man, @lehmannchris , don’t miss. Read his piece in the @thenation : You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, “Gotta Hand It to” Ron DeSantis

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

6 years

@ceppert89 @mrobWC @NBAonTNT Or when your land is getting conquered... 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

check out this TikTok video about how the right's use of "wokeness" echoes Southern debasements of negrophilia

Mother Jones

@MotherJones

1 year

Favorite slur too racist? Just replace it. "It's like, how best can I call this person the N-word, without calling them the N-word," explains author @aeconwright in conversation with @garrison_hayes .

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

My latest for @learnforjustice is about the historic 1964 Freedom Schools. If you are an educator, the 1964 Freedom Schools curriculum is a MUST READ. In my opinion it is the best example of project-based learning.

Freedom Schools for Today’s Justice Movement

To confront current education censorship and voter suppression, modern social justice projects build on the foundations of the historic 1964 Freedom Schools.

www.learningforjustice.org

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Read my almost latest for @thenation “ @RepScottPerry is purposefully obscuring the well-documented racial animus of the modern right in favor of the ritual sanctification of the Republican Party as always and forever “the party of Lincoln.”

How the Party of White Reaction Brands Itself as the Party of Lincoln

GOP leaders ransack the party’s past to whitewash its contemporary white-nationalist agenda.

www.thenation.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

This is such a bad take. Men are really out here thinking that they are ENTITLED to an opportunity to date EVERY woman on the planet.

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2 years

Online dating has been disastrous, especially for men. #Tinder @billmaher @realtimers

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Because if Black men wore “DRESS SHOES” we could tap dance racism away? Who knew George Floyd’s mistake was not wearing Joseph Abboud. If you’re pulled over, tell the officer you own some Stacy Adams & you’ll just get a warning because racism only happens to black ppl in Jordans

Boyce Watkins, PhD - Wealth is Power

@drboycewatkins1

2 years

How many black men do you know who own multiple pairs of SNEAKERS, but have no pairs of DRESS SHOES? This is what society has done to you.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 months

This is such an odd take. How can it be @marclamonthill “plan” when he is not reinforcing the system that yields “binary choice.” If you are going to blame 3rd party voters for Trump, you also have to take blame for the deaths of Palestinians if you voted for Biden. You can’t

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This was your plan in 2016 @marclamonthill . You got your wish, Trump was President. Did that magical progressive coalition appear? No, it did not. Now you have another binary choice & you are salting @KamalaHarris up the same way you salted up Hillary. To what end this time?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

This has been on my mind everyday since the attack. The outrage feels very different b/c Black suffering isn’t always legible. It needs to be connected w/ other political agendas for the outrage to cohere and suffering to be legible. It’s crazy that the country isn’t on fire.

derecka

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Does it feel like there was a massive white supremacist attack where black people were murdered just a few days ago? Does this feel different from the grief and outrage in Charleston?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

“What if the very notion and practice of resistance must also reject the assimilation of Blackness that serves the capitalistic underpinnings of the American education system?…Black history might afford an invaluable vantage to expose…American interests and values.”

The Nation

@thenation

2 years

What if we were to embrace a vision of Blackness that simply refuses to be rendered human through white, Western notions of history?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

9 months

Welp, at this point, I might as well just stop writing about January 6. Here is another addition to the prose of excellence on the subject, submitted by the great @lehmannchris for @thenation

Chris Lehmann

@lehmannchris

9 months

January 6: the neverending insurrection. My latest for @thenation

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

7 years

@usedgov Stop compartmentalizing skills into subjects (English, Math, Science, etc) & make careers the new subjects. Ex: instead of the English as a subject, in middle or high school students take Journalism & copywriting. Instead of math or science it’s engineering, construction.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

American Education Is Founded on White Race Theory Follow @newrepublic “The right wants students to believe that white Americans, even slaveholders, were redeemable—even ultimately virtuous—purveyors of the American experiment in freedom.”

American Education Is Founded on White Race Theory

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is ultimately a refusal to acknowledge that the country’s classrooms have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.

newrepublic.com

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 month

I did read your pinned tweet. I think you have so much hate that you behave like the people you detest. I think there is probably a better way than embodying that which you hate. I think it is possible to be compassionate towards Palestinians and care about defeating Trump.

Malcolm Nance

@MalcolmNance

1 month

Please go see my pinned tweet. What I hate is the #FreePalestine movement that’s full of open terrorist supporters & antisemites who think attacking @VP , African-Americans and pushing to let Trump win so you can destroy America for your single issue. GTFOH with that BS.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I hope you learn something new from this piece-I did! This is just the tip of the iceberg for me writing about this subject and era. The debates in the congressional record around the sec 2 of 14th amend are FASCINATING, and I can’t wait to expand on it in further pieces. Enjoy!

The Forum

@TheForumAAPF

2 years

New on : @aeconwright on the never-enforced voter-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

. @ClintSmithIII Thank you for telling me to keep going. You didn’t have to respond to my email, but you did. The next pitch I sent out was this one, and it was accepted.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

6 years

@shabIagoo @ErnestineBayle1 @MadIsaiahThomas @RealSkipBayless Ehhh... I don’t see the need to talk about a out the man’s wife. Troll Skip. it’s best to leave his family out of the banter

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

This comes from something thought about for a while. which is how to explain the violence that took place on January 6: "Why is there such a racial disparity in the insurrectionists if the 'Big Lie' is the reason why it happened?” I argue something larger is the problem.

James West

@jameswest2010

2 years

This week is the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. @aeconwright argues we’ve been overlooking one *giant* piece of the puzzle, in this insightful video by @garrison_hayes . Also some fascinating historical archive in here.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

My deeper inquiry is WHY. What is it that hasn’t been said by Black ppl for HUNDREDS of years that didn’t make the reality of racism “click” for you? Why is it the works of white women have more legibility than the works of actual victims of racism?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

The last time I was talked to like that I got my act together.

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

@NoLieWithBTC

2 years

Damn. Val Demings is done with Marco Rubio.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

I am lucky, humbled, and excited to be a part of this project!

African American Policy Forum

@AAPolicyForum

3 years

We’re excited to announce The Forum, a daily site of news and commentary committed to documenting—and fighting through—the intersecting crisis of racial justice and democratic decline in real time. Launching this spring. More from EIC Chris Lehmann:

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

6 years

@Vitico23 @BavarBall @mcbrown32 @DanBazik @RealSkipBayless No. It is the way they play. Look at Houston tonight. Good 3 point team, but too much one-on-one. Golden state plays team ball. And they use their skill set to make @everyone better.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

I received this in the mail today! I’m so proud of this work and it’s an honor to be featured in @MotherJones this is a huge milestone in the journey I’ve been on as a writer. Huge shoutout to @NinaLisss for all of the support and guidance during this process.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Check out my latest essay for @newrepublic “The Myth of “Radical” Black Politics That Stymies Progressive Politics” and let me know what you think.

The New Republic

@newrepublic

2 years

Black Americans largely want the same things that white people do. So why are their demands treated as extreme? From @aeconwright :

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

“In the end, @RealCandaceO is doing exactly what she thinks she’s exposing: lying to profit off a Black man’s untimely death.” @EamonWhalen does a great job of showing how corrupted art reveals a corrupted (con)artist. Read this instead of watching the film.

Eamon Whalen

@EamonWhalen

2 years

I watched Candace Owens Black Lives Matter documentary so you don't have to

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

In America, you can just do racism and antisemitism w/o actually saying it, and get away with it. So I always wonder how racist or antisemitic someone must be to risk their livelihood to say what they could just do and be okay.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

A short clip from talking to @NomikiKonst on the @TheNomikiShow about an article I wrote for the @newrepublic about #CriticalRaceTheory

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

The problem I have with the current discourse around teenagers is that writers are approaching the issue as political writers, first, and humans second. Instead of assuming the world is normal and teens should not be depressed, what if we assume depression is a sensible reaction

Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

2 years

This is a really interesting essay by @mattyglesias on the possibility—highlighted by several studies—that liberal teens are considerably more depressed than moderate or conservatives.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

This thread arrived on CPT but here it is: This essay was not meant to be anti Robin DiAngelo or anti-DEI work. There are plenty of you who are engaged in meaningful, good-faith work. I also believe it when white people say White Fragility helped them understand racism 1/

Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield

2 years

This essay from @aeconwright on the corporatization of anti-racism discussion and white-centrism of authors like Robin DiAngelo is 🔥🔥🔥. So many good points that I hope he does a thread on it. Please read and follow him.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

So @KingJames is it possible to shut down the @NBA @NFl until gun control legislation passes? What if we find away to shut the country down, impact the economy the way it was during quarantine but for gun control? They don’t care about kids but they do care about money.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

@thomaschattwill Thanks for sending that tweet over. I don’t think it was there when I was responding. If it was, sorry I missed it. The fact that the country is too violent is a criticism that feels much more important than the framing of the story. But let’s say we set that aside. What is the

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

@Texaggie79 @thomaschattwill I think we disagree on the thoughtfulness of the insight. Lester said “he saw a Black male” at the door and shot. I think there is an element of the critique that’s being offered is part of a larger critique of so-called “wokeness.” Help me out: what is the insight you pulled

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

All of this.

Nandini Balial

@nandelabra

2 years

I'm not happy about crumbs, that's just me.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 month

@the_eco_thought @kenzibishara The only tactic? What do you mean?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

My first time on @MSNBC on @AliciaOnMSNBC with @SymoneDSanders talking about January 6 and the “Big Lie.” It was my first time on national television, so I was very nervous. 😬😅

The white supremacy behind the 'big lie'

Journalist Anthony Conwright argues the myth of a white America fueled election denial and the January 6 insurrection. “It comforts us to believe that one lie incited this violence because it gives...

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

If your soul is in need of nourishment, here is some good word.

African American Policy Forum

@AAPolicyForum

3 years

Friends, if you missed last night's #UnderTheBlacklight conversation with the brilliant @sandylocks @Sifill_LDF @CornelWest and @jelani9 , you can still tune-in, share, like and subscribe via our @YouTube channel: . #TruthBeTold #AAPF

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

I feel like @davidfrum is leaving out the larger implications of the harms: doing what is right and intended in the constitution is harmful because the United States is living under the tyranny of the threat of white supremacist mobs. It’s pretty ironic given the 14th.

David Frum

@davidfrum

1 year

I joined NPR "Morning Edition" this AM to expand my reasons for doubting the wisdom of using the Fourteenth Amendment to debar Trump from 2024 presidential ballot

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Yo!!! @donnabrazile read and shared my work! Im gonna go have some whiskey now.

Donna Brazile

@donnabrazile

2 years

Hot of the presses. And interesting piece on race when both candidates are Black. The Georgia Senate Contest Is All About Race, Actually Follow @newrepublic

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

@nhannahjones The crazy thing about that argument is that it shows how extensive African slavery/anti-Blackness is! Anyone who makes this argument is saying: the entire world was in agreement that the enslavement of Black people was okay.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I hate it when people make these analogies. The NFL combine is nothing like a slave auction. I really don’t see how anyone could ever make this comparison. This is intellectually dishonest and completely obscures what slavery and a slave auction was.

Boyce Watkins, PhD - Wealth is Power

@drboycewatkins1

2 years

The NFL combine is a lot like a slave auction

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

This is a great time to revisit this clip. If Steve Nash were Tyrone Nash, he would have been fired at the beginning of the 4th quarter.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

@imispgh @MotherJones Thanks for that feedback. It’s difficult to navigate b/c a sentence that one person loves can be a sentence that another person hates. IMO, it had to be long because the concept needed context. Although I see your point, I think it’s okay for readers to do *some* work.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

Me looking through old post to make sure I never said anything bad about Kwame Brown

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

As I wrote my last piece, I thought to myself “Am I talking about @sullydish too much?” I did not write about him enough.

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Imagine feeling the need to both-sides a racist massacre. You lost it when you no longer have the ability to condemn a white nationalist murdering Black people and leave it at that. Just appalling.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

5 months

Think about the territory @djvlad claims here: she said what she said, whether you agree or disagree, on TWITTER, yet through some crazy act of transcendence, he inserts himself into her classroom. The answer to the question is: yes, she told you that and no, you are not one of

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

“‘We’re going to show you the video because you pay for the police,’ @JoyAnnReid said. Indeed, the police are public servants. But what if the violence inflicted on Black Americans for public consumption is the service to the public?” My latest for @newrepublic

The New Republic

@newrepublic

2 years

U.S. mental health so depends on Black death that the 2015 murder of Jeremy Mardis, a white six-year-old, didn’t rouse American consciousness into fierce protest, unlike the murders of Tamir Rice or Emmett Till, @aeconwright writes.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

Writing this essay for . @MotherJones was so much fun! The whole team is 🔥 I’m so thankful for their kindness, thoroughness, and support. The artwork tho!

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 month

@BreezeDFW @newrepublic Indeed: Did Everything Independently.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

Steph Curry got me rethinking my atheism.

WarriorsMuse

@WarriorsMuse

2 years

This man is really the greatest spectacle of our time.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

1 year

The people that are using this tragedy to attack so-called “wokeness” are really showing what they’re actually about.

Anthony V. Clark

@anthonyvclark20

1 year

@EndWokeness So instead of utilizing your platform to call both acts of violence out & bring people together in attempts to further expose why primarily white male homewoners are so in fear of their homes being attacked that they kill, you focus on who raised the most money? Knowing damn

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

4 months

Can someone explain to me what is meant by “eliminate Hamas” and how exactly will we know when Hamas is defeated? I tend to believe it’s an abstraction masquerading as a discernible military objective, but I could be wrong.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

There is an article in the Atlantic. I’m not linking to it b/c I’m not in the mood to dismantle it point by point. Just know that there are many synonyms for anti-Blackness. “Anti-racialism” is one of them.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

@ClaraJeffery I’ve probably had too many old fashioneds but you made me think all of masculinity is a performance.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I agree with the sentiment AND it is really hard for me to write when there is not order around me. This is why I am one of those few weird writers that can’t write in public. I need cleanliness and intimacy. Otherwise, I can’t focus.

Greta Hayer

@GretaHayer

2 years

If you’re writing a book, your house is allowed to be as messy as you want

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I realized white ppl and Black ppl have different demands. Different needs. Different political agendas but Black ppl’s political lives are mainly legible through a white lens. What if I don’t want DEI training and want the end of my company, capitalism, or the end of the world?

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

2 years

I had been playing with the idea of this article for a while, so I was so glad to have the chance to write about it for @newrepublic . It was even more fun to find it in a local magazine shop, and carry it around in public! Thank you @patcaldwell for this wonderful opportunity!

The New Republic

@newrepublic

2 years

So strong is the angst of the “radical” Black other, white people will sacrifice themselves to ward off proximity to Blackness, @aeconwright writes.

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Anthony Conwright

@aeconwright

3 years

@barna_teri @marclamonthill So… I don’t want to entertain your comment too much, but you’re making a very basic error here that needs to be addressed: things that are “made up” ie social constructs have REAL consequences. Race is indeed a social construct but slavery based on race was very real.

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