I think the anger over the Harris- Biden exchange is not because she asked the question

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44. The issue of busing kids was more complicated than it appears on the surface.

Plus, the complications varied and intensified state by state. It was a difficult situation with no easy solution: How do you integrate schools, when neighborhoods were so effectively segregated? And if black schools were substandard, was it an improvement to bus white students from far neighborhoods to them, which was necessary? Yet, black students absolutely needed more opportunities. A Catch-22, without good alternatives.

Biden's choice may be wrong, but it should be viewed in the light of the times, in a complicated situation. And nobody makes the right decision every time - it comes with being human.

Times have changed, and with the passing of time, much is forgotten. It would have been better for Biden to look Harris in the eye and say, "I am so very glad that you benefited from the busing program; you have contributed so much good and continue to contribute. Hindsight is an easy 20/20, and if I had the ability to see all outcomes, surely I would have made a different decision. But like all of us here tonight, including yourself, we do the best of which we are capable at any moment."

Harris is an extremely accomplished prosecutor, and this was a planned emotional attack, meant to throw him off balance. Prefacing it by saying that she did not think Biden was a racist only focused people's minds on that possibility. Like Mark Antony saying in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Brutus is an honorable man."

My opinion is that she should have kept it in her arsenal for later.