Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)Busing might not have been a great policy in every circumstances, but nothing is. It was not evil, however. It was an attempt, however flawed, to fix the evil that is shown in the picture.
All we're trying to say is... to defend a candidate, we don't need to go to the point of saying something that seems to imply desegregation was easy and local communities were congenial about it. Mr. Biden certainly wouldn't say that, I'm pretty sure.
We can just say, "That's not what he meant." And maybe explain where the candidate is NOW, which is definitely more important.
No one from that period came out of it without some damage. We can learn from it, and one thing I want to learn is there are no perfect people (well, Ruby Bridges is most of the way there . LBJ did massively good things for the elderly and poor and ramrodded civil rights legislation through. He also continued a terrible imperialist war, in part, perhaps, to "pay for" the social advancements. Almost everyone had to make big compromises and make morally ambiguous alliances. These might include political and personal "adjustments", like voting for this to trade for a vote on that, or sending a child to private school rather than the public school across town.
Mavis Staples wisdom-- important now too!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden