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Kamala Harris Gets It Wrong On Busing And Joe Biden
Townhall.com ^ | July 4, 2019 | Nicholas Waddy

Posted on 07/04/2019 1:47:11 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/04/2019 1:47:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I think she rose in the polls, based on the “optics” of her confronting Biden, and the praise the media heaped on her for her “courage”. I think it was based more on the optics than on approval of the issue of busing.

And it warmed some Democrat hearts, that she segwayed(sp?) into the “I was that little girl” campaign, with shirts for sale with her stern facial expression as a little girl.


2 posted on 07/04/2019 1:52:10 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin
Although I feel as if I need to be hosed down with a fire hose and a wire brush after I visit the DUmpster Kids' website I think it would be an interesting thing to monitor it over the 18 months.

It cannot be denied that they,the storm troopers of the Rat Party,are the real movers and shakers.

3 posted on 07/04/2019 1:55:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Perception is everything. So far as I can determine, Oakland, California, would not have been under a court-ordered “diversity” busing order, unlike schools in many of the racially divided South and urban centers like Chicago that had high friction between the racial divisions exacerbated by schools of vastly differing academic standing.

If the young Kamala Harris was “forced” into busing to school, it was to a school within the district in which her parents were then dwelling, and NOT to achieve “racial diversity”.

She is a whole “racial diversity” all by herself. Devil spawn and snarling wolf child.


4 posted on 07/04/2019 2:02:04 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: Kaslin

So, was Berkley segregated? I understand it was not.


5 posted on 07/04/2019 2:02:13 PM PDT by marron
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To: Kaslin; flaglady47; nopardons; oswegodeee; Road Warrior ‘04; saminfl; seenenuf; seekthetruth; ...
Sleepy Joe is the ultimate dope
He gets kicks from a sniff and a grope
Instead of a chidin'
This creepy guy Biden
Should be hauled from the Swamp with a rope!

A Happy FReepin' Fourth of July to all!

Leni/MinuteGal

6 posted on 07/04/2019 2:02:43 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !)
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To: Kaslin

Joe Biden should simply say, I was of the generation that ended discrimination in America and I helped elect the first black president in history. You’re welcome.

She is a corrupt phony. Actually, he is a corrupt phony times ten, but he shouldn’t back down from her.


7 posted on 07/04/2019 2:05:00 PM PDT by marron
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She is a corrupt phony.........A real PRO ‘flatbacking’ pro tho !


8 posted on 07/04/2019 2:09:05 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Kaslin

Forced cross-town busing of children to achieve “integration” was one of the greatest curses of the 20th century. I’m so happy democrats want to run on it.

In Richmond, which was typical, the school system shrank from 40,000 students to 20,000. The city population shrank from 245,000 to 189,000. Only now is it back to 220,000. The murder rate went from 40 a year to 160 a year. The city was almost killed off, but don’t forget the families that were destroyed and the careers and lives that were destroyed.

The result was taking a city with a desegregated school system and replacing it with one that was all black.

Congratulations, democrats! Let’s do it again!


9 posted on 07/04/2019 2:09:45 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: MinuteGal

Happy Fourth! Also, I talked to mcmuffin last week. He is still with us in Fla.


10 posted on 07/04/2019 2:13:50 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Kaslin

“...thanks in large part to her direct and pointed attacks on Joe Biden. Kudos to her for her boldness”

This guy writes like a Freshman in High School. You don’t give someone Kudo’s for a blatant, inane, mindless attack that is totally erroneous regardless of how forceful it was presented.


11 posted on 07/04/2019 2:16:38 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

Correction: forceful = forcefully. Got to learn to proofread myself.


12 posted on 07/04/2019 2:19:20 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

I recall Richmond was the center of a major desegregation court case, in which a court decided that cross town busing in Richmond wasn’t enough. The next court order was to order a merger of the school districts of Richmond with suburban Henrico and Chesterfield counties.

As I recall, the Supreme Court overturned the order for the city and suburban school systems to merge so that busing across district lines could happen. As I recall a similar case in Detroit, which sought to merge Detroit schools with suburbs, was also overturned by the Supreme Court.

If the Democrats want to run on unpopular failed policies from the 1970s, go for it.


13 posted on 07/04/2019 2:26:10 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: alloysteel
So far as I can determine, Oakland, California, would not have been under a court-ordered “diversity” busing order, unlike schools in many of the racially divided South and urban centers like Chicago that had high friction between the racial divisions exacerbated by schools of vastly differing academic standing.

Sorry, but busing was in effect here in the SF Bay Area. In 1971, when busing orders went out, my family went to meetings at our local school in San Francisco where residents were outspoken against the coming busing of students. My younger sister was 8 years old and was pegged to be bused across town to a black neighborhood, away from her school three blocks from our home. I had been bused around 1962 away from that same school three blocks away to a black neighborhood school (same school area where O.J. Simpson lived), and hated it. Wasted time in the morning waiting for the bus, and wasted time in the afternoon being bused back home. My local school was cosmopolitan with many races, but I got bused to an all black area. Anyway, my mom pulled my sister out of school and we moved to the suburbs so she could go to a white school, and sister was happier. This same scenario played out in Oakland (where they have white-concentrated neighborhoods in the hills, and black neighborhoods in the flatland areas).

14 posted on 07/04/2019 2:39:35 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Kaslin
No fan of Joe Biden but demanding that 1970's Joe should have lived up to the "standards" of 2019 Commie Dems is a tad unfair.

15 posted on 07/04/2019 2:41:08 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Kaslin
Why does anyone care what this desperate foreigner says?

She drips with lust for power over the evil Americans, of whom she is not one.

Born here to non-immigrant aliens on student passports?

Went to primary and secondary school in Montreal?

Comes back to go to an avowedly segregated, racist "university" like Howard?

What's "American" about her? What American cares what she says or thinks? She's just a vengeful alien, bent on saying ANYTHING to get power.

16 posted on 07/04/2019 2:43:14 PM PDT by Regulator
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Biden should have told the truth. Busing was stupid and ridiculous. But of course he couldn’t say that in front of a leftard audience, cause they would yell waycism at him, cause everything is waycism to those fascist idiots.


17 posted on 07/04/2019 2:44:40 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (EVERYTHING IS RACISM! (except hating whitey)
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That girl has reversed herself...

It sounds here like @KamalaHarris is now taking something more like the @JoeBiden position on school busing. So what was that whole thing at the debate all about?https://t.co/bRDGzp7nvy— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 4, 2019


18 posted on 07/04/2019 2:49:28 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: marron
Berkeley was not segregated but there were different racial proportions in different neighborhoods. Currently there are supposed to be only 10% or so African Americans in the population (could be a bit more with people who claim two or more racial groups). It may have been somewhat higher when Kamala was a child.

There are a lot of expensive houses up in the Berkeley hills--a lot of them owned by UC professors, I think, and a lot of ordinary houses down in the flatlands near Oakland or towards the bay. Near the university there are a lot of students and young non-students. I don't know if there were any neighborhoods ca. 1970 which would have mostly black. There may have been areas which seemed mostly black because if you drove around the black residents would be more likely to be outdoors.

I was a student there in the 1970s but spent most of my time near the university and didn't have much occasion to go into the other areas.

Anyway I don't know where Kamala lived. Her comments at the debate did not really make much sense other than to score points against Biden--was she saying she benefited by being bused? That all black kids got better educations if they were bused? I don't anyone who has studied the question objectively thinks that racial busing helped anyone.

19 posted on 07/04/2019 2:50:05 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Someone needs to hammer back on this question of busing. School choice is the answer, not upending the lives of random kids, stripping them from their neighborhood friends and sending them on bus rides an hour from their home 5 days a week.

Each kid has unique needs and unique talents. Schools need to serve the interests of individuals, not force a reversion to the mean. The system doesn’t serve either of those interests it just protects those who live off it with virtually no parental or student input.


20 posted on 07/04/2019 3:15:05 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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