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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All they are capable of is recycling our past history.
Why?
There is no one at the door of the school house barring a child from entering...
We pay for our grandkids to go to a Catholic school and we are Protestant. It is the best option in their area.
Yep. Detroit is one.
That was exactly my experience, although I don’t remember any smart ones, just one boy who was a good football player. NONE of them wanted there. The girls would start fights.
These people are something else. They want blacks to hate the guts of whites just for being white and then they turn around and claim blacks can’t make it in school without being bussed to schools that have more white students.
Adding to the Carbon Footprint so little Johnny can be beat up by some Inner City Thugs because of his White Privilege.
No...it’s that white taxpayers pay more for schools and thus SOMETIMES have better schools
Yes, lets bus kids long distances so they can sit on opposite sides of the school cafeteria.
Leave kids well enough alone. They’ll figure it out.
The Left, always trying to run someone else’s life.
That’s not what I see. I see black culture dominating white teens’ lives and more black boy/white girl dating than ever before.
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Section 8 residents don’t pay taxes. But whitey bad for paying property taxes for better schools. Gotta bus whitey else you’re a racist.
“Bussing won’t work today because all minorities self-segregate into their own conclaves.”
Exactly. Nowadays, blacks are asking for segregation in the schools, etc.
I bet she also supports putting people in housing where they would be unable to afford to rent or own.
I am in favor of the government leaving me alone to make my own decisions.
The states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate policy for INTRAstate schooling. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Justice Joseph Story, and other state sovereignty-respecting justices.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So while Sen. Harris’ heart is arguably in the right place, federal Democrats and RINOs who want to win votes with promises of social engineering need to get themselves elected to state governments so that they can use the unique 10th Amendment-powers of the states to experiment with things like school bus integration, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
Justice Brandeis had put it this way.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
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I suppose next she will propose gas rationing due to the "energy crisis"
According to Gutfeld, polls at the time showed 90% disapproval of busing, even among black communities.
So sure demodopes, run with that as a campaign platform: Bring Back Busing!
All the money is needed to name change schools and remove anything offensive.
IIRC, even a lot of rank and file Democrats in the day were opposed to busing.
I was a busing “victim,” but in the other direction — white sent to a predominately black jr. high. And I had skipped a grade, so I was a scrawny 12 y/o in school alongside 14-16 y/o brothas with beards & rap sheets. Gym class, particularly flag football, was an adventure.
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