Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)Really, how far do we want to go to make the best of a Biden gaffe? I really don't think that Biden would want that sort of defense, as it kind of connects us all to Lester Maddox, standing in the schoolhouse door with an axe handle to assert 'local control."
We should really let this go. Civil rights and integration and desegregation were among the most important movements of the 20th century. There was a lot of pain and anguish involved. The pain of the Central High School 9 -- kids abused, bullied, spat on for years-- was something that busing was meant to alleviate, so that it wouldn't always be tiny numbers of black kids integrating a school surrounded by hatred and conflict. That really was the alternative in many towns because of housing segregation-- you would have (as in my town) a few black kids and a thousand white kids in this one school, and 120 black kids and no white kids in the other school, and you know which school got most of the funding.
Sorry-- I just remember the time BEFORE busing. It was worse. Much, much worse.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden