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!
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.