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No one was positively impacted by the busing programs of the 70s. I grew up in Jacksonville and was part of the first busing program. 100 white bused into a majority black American school downtown. 100 young black kids sent to majority white schools named after civil war heroes...Schools like Jefferson Dave...Jeb Stuart...and Nathaniel Bedford Forrest. I cant imagine what the young black kids experience was. For me, it was my first time held at gunpoint...they kept tabs on where we were at all times, and at least once a month they would run a drill where the coaches ran through the school, gathered up all the white students, and locked us in the gym for 3-4 hours to keep us safe. It wasnt a picnic for anyone. The irony is that they took me from a neighborhood that was majority black and the people that I ran with, played sports with, even dated went to their 'normal' majority white schools, and did just fine.
Busing was a bunch of adults trying to work out their own racial issues using kids.
@VanceMack,
Thank you for your honesty. I was a child in a southern state that resisted the Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court Decision of 1954. My parents were northern liberals who taught me not to dislike blacks. I told my friends and classmates that I wanted our elementary school to be integrated. Back then it was not safe to advocate that.
I have never in my life attended a school where blacks made up more than five percent of the student body. That gave me an impression of the Negro race that I now believe was unrealistically benign.
During my life I have experienced downward social and economic mobility. Consequently I have lived and worked in and near black neighborhoods. I have also been mugged, robbed at gunpoint, and nearly murdered by blacks.
Most white liberals live and work in white neighborhoods. They know few blacks. Those few are exceptional, or they occupy subordinate positions without resentment. I know. That is the environment from which I have descended.
The issue of forced school busing to better integrate public schools has been dead for several decades now and it was only a cudgel for Harris to chop some percentage points off the Biden lead. That is all it ever was and anyone who think otherwise has been deceived.
I understand life and the real world and the development of racial hatreds...but I can tell you that as kids...adolescents...young teens...none of us gave the first **** about race until adults decided they had to impose it on us.@VanceMack,
Thank you for your honesty. I was a child in a southern state that resisted the Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court Decision of 1954. My parents were northern liberals who taught me not to dislike blacks. I told my friends and classmates that I wanted our elementary school to be integrated. Back then it was not safe to advocate that.
I have never in my life attended a school where blacks made up more than five percent of the student body. That gave me an impression of the Negro race that I now believe was unrealistically benign.
During my life I have experienced downward social and economic mobility. Consequently I have lived and worked in and near black neighborhoods. I have also been mugged, robbed at gunpoint, and nearly murdered by blacks.
Most white liberals live and work in white neighborhoods. They know few blacks. Those few are exceptional, or they occupy subordinate positions without resentment. I know. That is the environment from which I have descended.
The issue of forced school busing to better integrate public schools has been dead for several decades now and it was only a cudgel for Harris to chop some percentage points off the Biden lead. That is all it ever was and anyone who think otherwise has been deceived.
@VanceMack,
Thank you for your honesty. I was a child in a southern state that resisted the Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court Decision of 1954. My parents were northern liberals who taught me not to dislike blacks. I told my friends and classmates that I wanted our elementary school to be integrated. Back then it was not safe to advocate that.
I have never in my life attended a school where blacks made up more than five percent of the student body. That gave me an impression of the Negro race that I now believe was unrealistically benign.
During my life I have experienced downward social and economic mobility. Consequently I have lived and worked in and near black neighborhoods. I have also been mugged, robbed at gunpoint, and nearly murdered by blacks.
Most white liberals live and work in white neighborhoods. They know few blacks. Those few are exceptional, or they occupy subordinate positions without resentment. I know. That is the environment from which I have descended.
It is important to remember that Harris promised to re-institute forced busing should she become the Democratic Party's nominee. Every parent needs to figure how to come up with 2+ hours a day 5 days a week extra to take their kid to and from their new school miles away - or buy winter clothing and stress "stranger danger" for their kid standing waiting for a bus - plus probably martial arts classes to deal with harassment on the long bus ride twice a day.
It is important to remember that Harris promised to re-institute forced busing should she become the Democratic Party's nominee. Every parent needs to figure how to come up with 2+ hours a day 5 days a week extra to take their kid to and from their new school miles away - or buy winter clothing and stress "stranger danger" for their kid standing waiting for a bus - plus probably martial arts classes to deal with harassment on the long bus ride twice a day.
Where did Harris promise this? Please provide the quote.
The issue of forced school busing to better integrate public schools has been dead for several decades now and it was only a cudgel for Harris to chop some percentage points off the Biden lead. That is all it ever was and anyone who think otherwise has been deceived.
It is important to remember that Harris promised to re-institute forced busing should she become the Democratic Party's nominee. Every parent needs to figure how to come up with 2+ hours a day 5 days a week extra to take their kid to and from their new school miles away - or buy winter clothing and stress "stranger danger" for their kid standing waiting for a bus - plus probably martial arts classes to deal with harassment on the long bus ride twice a day.
“I support busing,” she told reporters outside city hall. “Listen, the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated today than when I was in elementary school. And we need to put every effort, including busing, into play to desegregate the schools.”
Kamala Harris’s Call to Bring Back Busing Is Bold and Risky
“I support busing,” she told reporters outside city hall. “Listen, the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated today than when I was in elementary school. And we need to put every effort, including busing, into play to desegregate the schools.”
Kamala Harris’s Call to Bring Back Busing Is Bold and Risky
I intend to vote for Joe Biden, but I was disappointed with his response to Kamala Harris. If he had stood up to her and calmly explained his opposition to busing he would have gained the support of many whites who have become disenchanted with Donald Trump.
The Democratic Party needs to win back much of the South and most of the white working class. The Democrats will not achieve this by pandering to race hustlers.
That means racism is the number one weapon in their arsenal.
Want to secure the border? You're racist.
Disapprove of four angry women in Congress denouncing the country and making wild, ignorant accusations? You're racist.
Promote voter ID? You're racist.
Don't have the right number of dark faces in your company, on your team, in your club, in your school etc.? You're racist.
The black person is the first person voted off of Survivor or Big Brother or American Idol? That's racist.
Think English should be required of immigrants? That's racist.
Bring a watermelon to share with your coworkers? That's racist.
Think government forced busing is a bad idea? That's racist.
Use any double entendre with the slightest possibility of politically incorrect interpretation? That's racist.
Fail to feel guilty or understand that you engage in white supremacy or disapprove of removing historical monuments or appreciate our history because of racial aspects, and you are really REALLY racist.
The ONLY reason a person would fly a Confederate battle flag is because the person is RACIST.
Immigration based on merit? That's racist.
Nike and Kaepernick are correct that the Betsy Ross flag is RACIST despite Obama displaying two of them at his last inauguration.
Most recently, just putting a citizenship question on the U.S. Census is RACIST!!!
The issue of forced school busing to better integrate public schools has been dead for several decades now and it was only a cudgel for Harris to chop some percentage points off the Biden lead. That is all it ever was and anyone who think otherwise has been deceived.
Forced school busing was one of the issues which during the early seventies caused white blue collar workers to leave the Democrat Party for the Republican Party. This created the Republican ascendancy which has blighted my adult life. Forced school busing was never popular. By reminding voters of this terrible mistake by the Democrats Kamala Harris may cause Trump to be reelected in 2020.
The Democrats need to win back most of the white working class and much of the South. They will not do it by pandering to race hustlers like Harris.
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