Angus Johnston

@studentactivism

Historian and advocate of American student activism. CUNY prof, campus speaker. Sporadic personal tweets: . Queries: angus@fecko.com.

New York City
Joined February 2009
Born on December 30

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  1. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale met at Merritt College in Oakland. Back when California's public colleges were free.

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    Fred Hampton would have turned 67 last August. Imagine how much wisdom he'd have for us had he not been murdered at 21.

  3. I agonize over critical quote-tweets for that reason — if I'm not fair, I've put something out in the world that I can't take back.

  4. That's the messed up thing about it — it's not false enough to retract, but not quite true enough to justify itself.

  5. This quote isn't exactly a lie, but it wouldn't have gone viral the way it did if it had been placed in context.

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    Students at are occupying the President's office:

  7. Jeb's taking a pretty big gamble that there won't be a mass shooting or a police killing of a black kid tonight.

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    Love Sanders' treatment of the accusation he is trying running for office on a program that appeals to people.

  9. Clinton missed an opportunity to talk about predatory for-profit colleges here.

  10. Stepped up investigation and enforcement of K-12s by the Dept of Ed's office of civil rights would be a good thing.

  11. This is basically the domestic portion of any mainstream Democrat's State of the Union speech with a few cultural references tossed in.

  12. After slamming Bernie for proposing economic solutions to racial problems, the first concrete proposal in her speech is ... a jobs program?

  13. Schomburg. Just like Ginsburg, I always type that one wrong.

  14. Clinton speech on racism at the Schomberg Center in Harlem beginning in a few. Livestream here:

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    Education puts Americans into debt before they even get a chance to get started…

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