Sunday, June 30, 2019

Busing killed the New Left

FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Said 'Busing' Was Harmful To The Civil Rights Movement


Busing is the reason we got Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As in:
It wasn’t until the mid-1970s that Boston’s “busing crisis” finally garnered national attention. It was easy to forget that this wasn’t a new phenomenon, that black people in Boston and other cities had been fighting for years to secure equal education, and that powerful local officials and national politicians underwrote school segregation in the North. School desegregation was about the constitutional rights of black students, but in Boston and other Northern cities, the story has been told and retold as a story about the feelings and opinions of white people. The mass protests and violent resistance that greeted school desegregation in mid-1970s Boston engraved that city’s “busing crisis” into school textbooks and cemented the failure of busing and school desegregation in the popular imagination. Contemporary news coverage and historical accounts of Boston’s school desegregation have emphasized the anger that white people in South Boston felt and have rendered Batson and other black Bostonians as bit players in their own civil-rights struggle.
Now Kamala and Liz want to bring it back

This is not the fight the Dems need, Trump and Biden win that debate.  None of the various colors are helped by busing kids around to far away schools.  The focus should be ion improving the schools you have, namely get the better parents involved.

Dems wasted 15 years doing this battle, and failed. Dems spent 20 years trying various version of federal health care, and still fail. Their history of failure then doi the 'This time is different' is legendary. Repubs just screw up directly, mostly in reaction to Dems screwing up.

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