Posted on 06/29/2019 4:11:47 AM PDT by reaganaut1
J. Anthony Lukas was the reporter every young reporter wanted to be after he produced, in 1985, “Common Ground,” a meticulous and nuanced book on the busing fight in Boston.
That passionate, signature controversy of the 1970s concerned not whether parents should be allowed to put their kids on buses in search of better schools. If that’s what Kamala Harris was trying to imply when attacking Joe Biden in Thursday’s Democratic debate, it’s an idiotic misrepresentation, undoubtedly deliberate by one of several candidates on stage who seemed ready to sacrifice the known universe and all of creation if it would lift their polling average by five points.
At issue was whether children should be taken from familiar neighborhood schools, friends and teachers and bused across town to meet desegregation quotas designed by federal judges and bureaucrats. It’s safe to say that Lukas’s book crystallized the reality that nobody really thought this was a good idea. (As the Washington Post notes, polling at the time showed it was favored by 9% of blacks and 4% of whites.) In Lukas’s book a pro-busing white liberal family even leaves Boston to avoid its own children being bused. Mr. Biden at the time only exhibited the common sense that we wish every politician would exhibit in moments of frenzied excess.
The Biden-Harris tiff at Thursday’s debate comes in a week when Ravelry.com, a knitting site, banned users from saying they like President Trump. “Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy,” the Boston-based proprietors asserted (while relying, in the manner of lazy polemicists everywhere, on a modifier to carry the weight of their invidious proposition).
I wondered if the Republican National Committee had put Ravelry up to this but matters are clarified in a remarkable series of pieces by liberal authors.
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Harris might have won a battle but any sensible opponent will pound her asking her if she is in favor of bringing back forced busing.
I’ve often wondered what the cost in dollars has been for bussing, and what the world would be if that money had been put into schools and teachers.
Dems are for busing other people’s children.
The owners of the Ravelry site have offended millions of their own membership. Now some of us in the fiber community have decided that whenever the name must be mentioned, we will spit. Doesn’t matter if a person spits Right or Left, just do it!
I guess what Kameltoe is saying is that she doesn’t think kids should be taken to places that are unfamiliar to them.
What is better than playing the black card?
Playing the little black girl card
Yo, Kalamata, if busing resulted in better schooling, shouldn’t you be in favor of school vouchers for the same reason? Perhaps you could bring that up at the next debate.
Opposing Busing seemingly is the only intelligent position Biden has ever taken. He should have told Willie’s GF to shove it.
Harris attended Berkeley, California public school for 2 years. Her father is a prominent professor of economics at Stanford and her mother is a research physician. She rode a school bus to get to school, not to integrate a formerly all-white school system. I’d bet there were many more white (and Asian) kids on that bus than Blacks (because her family lived in an overwhelmingly non-Black area). Berkeley is far from Birmingham or Little Rock. Harris was not in the “second class” to integrate her school. Berkeley had Black students already graduating from High School when she was there, and had never been segregated as a matter of policy.
‘Now some of us in the fiber community’
Big Fiber raises it’s ugly head...
‘Playing the little black girl card’
yep; the prime beneficiary of all the goodies our progressive betters dole out; just watch TV commercials; they are obsessed with little black girls...
I was reading a snopes article about that. (Dang, they are left leaning!) They say the elementary schools weren’t integrated until 1968. The high school had been integrated because it was the only one in the district. The elementary kids went to their neighborhood school, which tended to be more homogeneous due to people choosing where to live.
Pretty much the way I remembered the Busing Issue in the 70’s, but it doesn’t matter. Harris’ target audience are the Marxist kiddies who wouldn’t be born for another 15 years. Biden is done.
It’ll be interesting to see if the folks who agree with what Ravelry did spend as much money as the people who have left.
Designers and local yarn shops did not need this ****.
Harris was bused out of her white affluent community into a ghetto school. How is that desegregation?
Dems are for busing other people’s children.
Opposing Busing seemingly is the only intelligent position Biden has ever taken. He should have told Willie’s GF to shove it.
Ps ...not GF..but.whore. ..:-D
Funny we think the same.
I say if she was bused, it would of been From a White school. ...to a Black school. No way she lived in the inner city black neighborhood.
Good grief are these Democrats old and out of touch. Why are Democrats even discussing busing as a tool of forced school desegregation — are they that desperate to conjure bad feelings from 1960?
What is Harris’s point, other than to portray herself as a victim and embarrass Biden? Does she see busing as a success? A failure? Her comments are free of any actual content. If Harris was a victim, who was perpetrator? Berkeley’s ultra-lib school superintendent who insisted on achieving racial balance by busing her? Her father for not sending her to private school?
Harris is on stage running for President. Riding a school bus really ruined her life.
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