Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: "Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?" [View all]uawchild
(2,208 posts)"But for his (Biden's) overwhelmingly white constituents, nothing less than massive resistance to busing would suffice. The New Castle County Neighborhood Schools Association booed Biden off the stage at one event in 1974. One year later, the Delaware senator broke ranks with northern liberals and joined his virulently racist North Carolina colleague Jesse Helms in voting to kneecap all federal efforts to integrate schools, anywhere in the country. Specifically, Biden voted to bar the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from requiring schools to provide information on the racial makeup of their student bodies thereby making it nigh-impossible for Uncle Sam to withhold federal funds from school districts that refused to integrate."
making it nigh-impossible for Uncle Sam to withhold federal funds from school districts that refused to integrate... that speaks volumes.
Here is why this is an issue we should care about today: Back in 1974 Biden didn't just "be civil" to republican senators, he abandoned his principles and threw in with THE WORST RACIST in the Senate.
So when Biden started calling Trump an "aberration" and saying he wants to return to the days of by-partisan civility, people get really nervous that he will once again abandon his principles for political expediency.
That seems like a reasonable concern to consider.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided