Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)FORCED was always a racist concoction. In the case of Blacks being forced into inferior schools, it was racist and in the case of Whites using busing as a crutch for racism, the term forced busing was racist.
You made an inaccurate claim that Blacks opposed busing. Gallup reported that, but parallel studies showed that Black support for busing never dropped below 50% until Black leaders started to question the practice in the face of White flight to avoid integrated schools.
Lastly. I pointed out over and over that my experience was as a poor southerner. We simply had to live near people of other races because moving to the better parts of town simply was not possible. Southerners fought integration, but today southern schools in areas with meaningful Black populations are highly integrated, as opposed to many places in the north. The reason for that as I have pointed out until my face turned blue (yet some still don't understand) was the reality of southern housing patterns, they were far less segregated than in other parts of the country, in general, though there were and still are some exceptions.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden