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In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)5. If anything, it is worse.
In the Chicago area, the south part of the city saw a mass exodus of white families to escape integrated schools and neighborhoods.
Small farm towns on the outer edge of Chicago went from 5,000 residents in 1965 to over 60,000 residents in 2010 because these racists refused to live in integrated communities.
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When would it have come along? Because it's nearly 50 years later and we're nowhere close.
hedda_foil
Jun 2019
#2
When? When communities offered voluntary busing. When it became a choice not a mandate. nt
Kahuna7
Jun 2019
#4
According to VP Biden, we should apparently let these things be up to the states
KitSileya
Jun 2019
#75
well.. why don't we ask some REAL experts about Biden ...John Lewis and Jim Clyburn to start
Thekaspervote
Jun 2019
#79
That's where Medgar Evers did his integration activism and was assassinated for it-
dawg day
Jun 2019
#88
When substantial investment was made in community schools to provide equal quality in
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#26
'Forced busing' didn't fail. Desegregation is the best way to improve our schools.
Celerity
Jun 2019
#93
Were we talking about busing yesterday? Are you taking the word 'created' literally.
UniteFightBack
Jun 2019
#38
Hey let's just keep doing the work for the pukes and we can send someone into the general
UniteFightBack
Jun 2019
#49
If you don't want candidates that know how to play to win, what's the point of showing up to the
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2019
#144
When busing was removed from the mix, the support for school desegration doubled
wyldwolf
Jun 2019
#21
Has busing been "removed from the mix?" My kid was bused in 2003 to a different middle school
dawg day
Jun 2019
#89
We're referring to a poll where busing was removed from the equation and treated as a separate issue
wyldwolf
Jun 2019
#90
It's 50 freaking years ago...sorry you can't move on and it's so 'indefensible'.
UniteFightBack
Jun 2019
#23
If what happened "50 freaking years ago" is irrelevant, why did he bring it up?
StarfishSaver
Jul 2019
#145
And in 1978, the judge in Evans v. Buchanan had enough of Delaware's bullshit
jberryhill
Jun 2019
#35
As I noted, busing was a response to second class schools and opportunities.
guillaumeb
Jun 2019
#18
Put a person in a corner and then make them chose between two options to answer a complex
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#34
And she was bused on a voluntary system. Her parents were highly educated; not all if Berkley
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#48
She is a non-white female running in a very racist, very misogynistic country.
guillaumeb
Jun 2019
#50
In other words, confront the guy who isn't an actual proud and flagrant racist supported by
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#66
YES. Unfortunately for no other reason. She is not confronting racists or racism in America, but
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#111
No. Integration was a response to segregation in schools. Busing was one method to achieve a goal.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2019
#41
Busing was simply the method of transporting students to the new schools they were assigned to
StarfishSaver
Jun 2019
#134
The first day of forced busing in Lubbock, Tx. resulted in a dead Black student...
czarjak
Jun 2019
#59
The information that I gave was summarized from Wikipedia and an NPR story about public
Blue_true
Jun 2019
#114
Show me your links. I read both information sources and both agreed, that is
Blue_true
Jun 2019
#118
i was bused in late grade school. went to an early magnet school. i loved it.
pansypoo53219
Jun 2019
#83
So again, are you going to argue that housing prices are something to be regulated by the federal
RHMerriman
Jun 2019
#108
And segregation by race in housing via restricted convenants has been illegal since 1948
RHMerriman
Jun 2019
#117
Then have the 'threateners" investigated and face the consequences of their actions
RHMerriman
Jun 2019
#123
Actually, it was a response to mandates resulting from Brown v. Board of Education,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2019
#115
Busing was simply the method of transporting students to the new schools
StarfishSaver
Jun 2019
#132
A lot of these remedies are great on concept but either unworkable or too slow
StarfishSaver
Jun 2019
#142