Harris says busing should not be mandated

[StarfishSaver]

112. Boston wasn't a pilot project

It was one of the last school systems to implement a desegregation plan that included busing. It took so long because the city was so intractable in it's opposition to desegregation that it took years of litigation and a brave, heroic judge to get them to develop a desegregation plan. And instead of working with city residents, black and white, to make desegregation work for everyone, the city leaders ginned up the white residents, turned them against the black residents and created the nucking fightmare we now remember.

One of the main reasons the Northern desegregation efforts were so difficult was the intractability of the residential segregation created and maintained by government policy in collaboration with white residents, realtors, businesses, school boards, etc.

Given that, how do you think desegregation could have been implemented in those cities without children being being reassigned to different schools?

And, FYI - the opposition to busing wasn't solely based on the concern about their children being "ripped out of their neighborhood schools." Many of the people making the most noise didn't have children who would have had to change schools. They objected to black students coming into their neighborhoods and attending THEIR "neighborhood school"with their children.