Joe Biden, weighing a 2020 White House bid, once advocated continued school segregation in the United States, arguing that it benefited minorities and that integration would prevent black people from embracing “their own identity.”
Biden was speaking in 1975, when he opposed the federally mandated busing policy designed to end segregation in schools. In the past few decades, he has claimed he wanted desegregation but believed the policy of busing would not achieve it. Last year, he stated he had voted heroically to protect busing.
In 2008, after being chosen as Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate he said: "The struggle for civil rights was the animating political element of my life." He appears poised to make his civil rights record a centerpiece of any campaign, telling an audience in Fort Lauderdale this week that "I came out of the civil rights movement. He added that he first became aware of what an "awful thing" segregation was as a third grader, when he asked his mother why a bus was taking black children to a school away from where they lived.
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Uh, buses are still taking black children to schools away from where they live. They call it integrational balancing or something.
ReplyDelete11:38 it means that you can't force black youth to go to the awful schools that are a result of policies such as red lining that were created and endorsed to put minorities in the worst areas. Great teachers aren't likely to work in an underfunded school when they can get a job in a nicer area. Thus, the vicious cycle of kids getting more and more stupid in poor areas will continue. Uh, hope that helps or something.
ReplyDeletesomebody should put Plugs Biden in chains!
ReplyDeleteYeah, and Biden is still pandering to the taxpayers. Nothing has changed.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone seen the meme with Uncle Joe with his hands on the Kavanaugh accuser and he says "so, I hear you can keep a secret for 30 years"
ReplyDeleteBiden and Maxine Waters running for prez and vp, that would really be something to see.
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