Here's the thing about opposing "forced busing"

[TomSlick]

11. You are correct.

However, "forced busing" was also necessary to counter de facto segregation. To integrate larger school districts, it was necessary to bus white students from white neighborhoods while busing black students from black neighborhoods. That's why VP Biden's distinction about de jure segregation is a dodge. If students, white and black, had not been bused out of their neighborhoods, there could have been no integration.

Voluntary busing could never have been the answer. White families would not voluntarily bus their children to black neighborhood schools. The result would have been that a very few black children would be bused to white schools - until all the slots were filed - the remaining black children would have languished in substandard overwhelmingly black schools.

After decades of "red-lining" and other means of keeping people of color out of white neighborhoods, if students went to the schools in their neighborhoods, they would be in de facto segregated schools. Forced busing was largely unpopular among people of color. It was wildly unpopular among white people. However, there was no other way to integrate the schools.

People like VP Biden and I who lived through the times know the history. VP Biden owes it to us now to explain why he opposed "forced busing" to integrate the schools.