Posted on 06/29/2019 8:23:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-CA) national spokesperson said on Thursday evening that Harris even supports “busing for school integration right now.”
When a national politics reporter at New York Times asked Ian Sams, Harris’s national press secretary, if Harris supported busing to integrate schools today, he replied: “Yes.”
Astead Herndon, the Times’ national politics reporter, said on Friday that Harris’s campaign declined to elaborate further when asked about specifics.
Harris, in need of a moment to revive her floundering campaign, called out former Vice President Joe Biden during Thursday’s debate for his past opposition to school busing, telling the former vice president that she was bused to a school in Northern California. Harris also said that though she did not believe Biden is “racist,” “it was hurtful” to hear him “talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country.”
“And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose bussing,” Harris told Biden in what was the night’s signature moment. “And you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day. And that little girl was me. So, I will tell you that on this subject, it cannot be an intellectual debate among democrats. We have to take it seriously. We have to act swiftly.”
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Busing was the beginning of the end of Public Education in America.
Does Kommiela think she can fool young voters into believing that Jim Crow laws still exist?
Yes, I think she does believe that.
What, are we in the 50’s or 60’s?
The way this white chick posing as a black chick is culturally misappropriating is totally triggering me (he said while channeling his inner college snowflake or exorcising it to be more accurate).
Because it worked so well the first time.
Before it was abandoned.
Kamila - your typical lib politician. Sex for advancement.
No intelligence.
No morals.
Summary: She’s a lying dumbass. But available.
We have busing. They are bringing kids from the inner city to the suburb for school. Those kids cause more trouble than they’re worth. Statement of fact. They degrade the school experience for the suburban kids.
It’s not discrimination.
The only good thing about it is that there is no critical mass of city kids, so they don’t rule the good kids, and the good kids notice WHO are the troublemakers, hopefully inspiring them to vote Republican when they’re old enough.
It is all the RATS can come up with. They have NO CREATIVITY. No INNOVATION. And certainly nothing good for America. All they are capable of is recycling our past history.
Total destructive losers.
Wow! That’s sure to win over the voters 2020!
George Santayana. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
Bussing won’t work today because all minorities self-segregate into their own conclaves.
Yes
So money that could be going for school libraries, computers, gymnasiums, etc. is instead going for buses, bus drivers and gasoline.
Desegregation busing
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“Busing” redirects here. For other uses, see Busing (disambiguation).
Desegregation busing in the United States (also known as simply busing) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to reduce the racial segregation in schools.[1] While the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, many American schools continued to remain largely segregated due to housing inequality.[2] In an effort to address the ongoing de facto segregation in schools, the 1971 Supreme Court decision, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, ruled that the federal courts could use busing as a desegregation tool to achieve racial balance.[3]
Even though school districts provided zero-fare bus transportation to and from students’ assigned schools, those schools were in some cases many miles away from students’ homes, which often presented problems to them and their families. In addition, many families disliked having to send their children miles to another school in an unfamiliar neighborhood when there was an available school a short distance away. The movement of large numbers of white families to suburbs of large cities, a phenomenon known as white flight, reduced the effectiveness of the policy.[4] Many whites who stayed moved their children into private or parochial schools; these effects combined to make many urban school districts predominantly nonwhite, reducing any effectiveness mandatory busing may have had.[4]
If she supported school choice, busing might make sense. Has anyone asked Liawatha about busing? This was sooooo popular in Boston.
About 15 years ago, when I was living 20 miles west of Boston, I asked one of my kids, then somewhere in the 8th to 10th grade, about the kids that were bused in. He said, "there were a couple smart ones, but most of them didn't care about school at all, and were only there because their parents forced them into the program."
You are right... and bussing was the beginning of white flight to the suburbs and the downfall for major metropolitan areas around the US. But Dems took over those cities and turned them into the hell holes they are today.
Why did we ever get rid of it? Harris is going to win on this for sure!
My 6 year old came home and told me the sad story about how her teacher was poorly paid etc etc.
I took my daughter out of the Public School and put her into the Catholic School.
Public education is the Democratic party’s piggy bank and nothing else.
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