Posted on 07/02/2019 6:33:39 AM PDT by gattaca
Interesting. I was born a few generations later, but can see that the legacy of busing seemed to make racial dynamics of certain cities surrounding Los Angeles WORSE...Pasadena comes to mind.
Yet of course from the purview of history, I am all for desegregation and support the “Little Rock 9” and the verdict of Brown v. Board...
I can’t see how busing would become an issue in the general election, but it would be tailor-made for Trump to make the point that Liberal “solutions” have failed.
They were not popular in the 70s. They would not be popular today. They didn’t help anyone. But the Left (Kamala Harris) still pushes the idea and uses it as a stick to beat an opponent and to demonstrate her own self-righteousness. Just try that sort of tactic in front of President Trump. Just try it.
Harris is a Brown Supremacist.
She’s all about forcing Whitey to knuckle under to the coming Brown Majority. Just ask her, she ain’t bashful about admitting it.
Busing is the most unpopular thing the government of a supposedly free people can do short of concentration camps. So let the alien b***h run her game on this. She’ll drive millions to the Right, just like it did in the ‘70s.
A perfect example of unconstitutional judicial courts overstepping their bounds and legislating from the bench. They should have been tarred and feathered...
And 60 years later, we're still performing like a bunch of circus clowns.
The photo of that liberal cracker broad on her knees in Memphis begging the black dude's forgiveness comes to mind. I'll bet he and the bruthas had a good laugh over their Colt 45 malt liquor.
Harris may have doomed the democrats in 2020 by making school busing an issue.
IMO, there were two boneheaded things our country did that top the list - and both corrected (in most areas):
1. Prohibition.
2. School busing.
I was bused. Starting in 1976. We lived 3 blocks from the neighborhood junior high. I was sent across the city to the low-income, predominately Indian neighborhood.
I was one of the top students in the city. The school I was sent to was one of the worst in the nation. I went from all A+ to running for my life every day. I was beaten, spit on, gum in the hair, and burned with cigarettes. Pushed down steps. Threatened with knives. I finally just stopped going to school in eighth grade.
When my mom found I had not been to school in months she dragged me away to a Catholic school. Something my family could not afford. My dad moved us to a far suburb. Again something we could not afford. We loved our neighborhood but had to abandon our home and our friends
Busing fundamentally changed my life. For the worse.
“It’s yet another indication of the left’s success in using academia and pop culture to brainwash the last couple of generations with a skewed, politically correct version of history. Those of us who know better must not rest in our efforts to set the record straight.”
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” George Orwell, 1984
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?”
1984 by George Orwell
Home Literature 1984 Characters Winston Smith
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, and every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.
Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evidence after the event – years after it.” (2.5.14, Winston to Julia)
https://www.shmoop.com/1984/winston-smith-quotes-2.html
There is still “school busing” in Louisville. About a year or so agao, one of my office mates was sending her kids to Catholic school, but decided it was time to hit the public schools. However, their neighborhood had school busing.
They sold their house and moved to a suburb that was not part of it.
Yep. 2018 and we still had white flight due to school busing.
I’m glad they’re talking about important issues like busing, climate change, late term abortion, healthcare for illegals, socialism, gun confiscation, open borders, higher taxes.
Trump is talking about great economy, world peace through strategic negotiations, balancing the unfair trade issues, bringing manufacturing back to the USA, lower energy prices due to high production, lowering illegal immigrations, low unemployment, right to try drug law, 2nd amendment protections, adding conservatives to SCOTUS and other vacancies, being a proud American, ensuring a strong military, healthcare reforms, etc.
What a difference.
Some friends of mine who are loud and proud open borders communists are planning on home schooling their first grader next year. They are very vague on their reasons, if you drill down really hard their child has been having the privilege beat out of him by the dreamers and is in constant fear of them. Guess its ok for other kids though
There are lots of things to dislike and ridicule Joe Biden about.
I don’t think that who he worked with in the Senate in the 70’s should be on that list.
I don’t guess you can criticize anything more recent without at least indirectly criticizing Obama.
For every black kid that was bussed to a school, a white child from that school was forced bussed to the black school in order to create the space at the white school...
the white students were chosen at random and the parents had no say...
that happened to my own white American son at age 11, middle school, in South Carolina...our local school was just a few blocks away but he was bussed passed that one to another school district and to a school that was 89% black, 11% white...and several miles away...
The academic classes were terrible so I taught him at home at night so that he could keep up with the good schools...
However the school did spend a lot of money on their music programs...the band always had new uniforms and the best instruments and equipment...the marching band was so good that they were chosen as the only middle school from the whole state to go to the 1st MLK parade in Atlanta...with 2 white members my son and another boy...
but their Math and English scores still sucked at the bottom of the county etc...
My son was there for 2 years until we moved to TN and there was nothing we could do to move him to our local school...it was the law...
so yes its great for the black students from other school districts but consider the cost to the white kids who actually live in that district and are forced to go to a different school...(just to make it fair)
I remember in 1966 when they bused in black kids to our school in Las Vegas.They immediately started beating up on some kids. My mom moved us to Kingman Arizona the following month. I had some great friends and hated to leave them. It’s not fair to subject children to socialist engineering.
I’m thankful I grew up in a rural area.
In my home town and county, there were two school sytems before integration: the “city” schools (black) and the “county” schools (predominantly white though a couple of black families had placed their children in the county schools).
After integration, we just had one school system. One elementary, one junior high, one high school.
I don’t recall any white families pulling their kids out and sending them to private schools (which would have had to have been in another county anyway).
No busing, no race riots, after a while life just went on as usual.
This was in the South.
The 1970s busing mandates proved despot judges thought themselves demi-gods superior to the Constitution and we the people as lab rats! #Arrogance.
They had no consideration for the impact or the “collateral damage” their “fatwas” would cause. The more the (misnamed) “progressives” try the “heal” race relations, the worse they get. You’d almost think it’s intentional... if we didn’t know better. ;)
Harris has learned nothing from history.
I used to have relatives living in the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills. Back in the 1970’s it and the neighboring borough of Churchill were nice, very comfortable middle-to-upper-middle class communities.
Then a judge, in an unchecked abuse of raw judicial power, ordered their school districts to merge with neighboring Braddock (a collapsing craphole of a milltown). Faced with the prospect of busing their kids to Braddock an vice-versa there was a virtual real estate fire sale of people fleeing.
Today the area is distressed. Virtually nobody want to live in that school district. The former country club closed and is likely to become the site of low income housing.
It was a way of making good schools and bad schools equally bad. Next case.
I was lucky. When they decided to start busing people here they applied it to the incoming students and left you alone if you had already had 1 year of high school. They bussed kids next door to me all the way across town to the brown neighborhoods. They had to catch the bus 2 hours earlier than me. My bus ran at 7:20, theirs ran at 5:20 in the morning.
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