David Axelrod: "It sounds here like @KamalaHarris is now taking something more like the @JoeBiden

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14. Biden in the 70's made statements against all busing, not just Federally mandated.

He said busing was "asinine," that that it didn't benefit a little black kid to be sitting next to a little blond kid, like his.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/politics/joe-biden-busing-kamala-harris.html

In reality, Mr. Biden was a leading opponent of busing in the Senate during the 1970s and 1980s, and his opposition went beyond the federal government’s role in the practice.

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“I oppose busing,” he said in an interview in 1975. “It’s an asinine concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me.”

“The new integration plans being offered are really just quota-systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school,” he added. “That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with; what it says is, ‘in order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?”