Forced busing desegregation

Are you also Anti-Dow Jones Industrials at 27,000 or are you Pro Dow Jones Industrials Hillary Clinton, ET AL at 9,000?

If you want to call me names, at least get it right.

I am a liberal. I like progressive polices with the government being a social safety net for it's citizens. I am anti-corporate welfare. I am anti-imperialism.

erotia, and you are a Democrat, Liberal, Socialist that got fucked by them. Maybe you should join the KKK?

I was one of those kids that was bused to a poor school from a highly regarded school.

I grew up in Broward county in South Florida. Broward is about 30 miles north to south and about 20 to 30 miles east to west (Everglades.) Broward went though a MASSIVE population shift in the late 70s, early 80s. The east/west divider used to be I-95 which is about 5 miles from the ocean. Then developers found a way to reclaim the Everglades and build on it. They fought and won and expanded the counties housing much further out west. This was also spawned by a creation of a city called Coral Springs. Coral Springs was a planned development done by Westinghouse. It was a city built by a business. It's an interesting read if you want to learn more.

I lived about 5 miles dead south of Coral Springs High School. My freshman year, I went there. There were over 5,000 students. It was on double session. I went to school from 12:45pm to 6:04 pm. It was a short bus ride. The next year, I went to a school that was about 15 miles away. In other words, it was half a county away. Coral Springs out of the over 5000 students had roughly 150 blacks. Those blacks were two bus loads that came in from where I was going to. I was told that the school I was going to was under-enrolled and that the school needed one busload of kids to keep it open. This was odd. Two busloads left there to go to Coral Springs and one busload left there to go to the other area. Hmm. We were all white. The school I went to was the oldest school in the county. It was also about 40% black and about 1100 students. Broward county then, was basically mixed black and white. Latins stayed in Dade.

While I was going to that school, I was pissed. I was unable to do after school activities because I was so fucking far away. However, around my senior year I felt it was a much better school. Were the classes better? NOPE. They were better at the other school. The choice of classes was much better at Coral Springs. Were the teachers better in Coral Springs? Probably a little better. But the school I went to . . . it taught me more than just academics. It taught me culture. It taught me that the world is not my white bubble. It taught me so much more that enlightened me. I would never trade that.

Broward has an interesting solution to this. I am not sure if it is the best solution, but it does seem to work. Broward has what they call magnet schools. Instead of putting together the same curriculum everywhere and fund it, they put a focus on a discipline at a school. The school that is about a mile from the high school I went to is 95% black. It is one of the poorest schools there is. However, they have the best science programs of any school in the county. A friend who lived a block over went there just for that. It worked out well for him because he has a masters in physics. My friend was the token white guy :)

I think everyone would want the best programs to be in all the schools. Then it would not have to be 'bussed.' I just don't see people wanting to pay for it.

Topic: Forced busing desegregation. Is a violation of the 13th Amendment, Involuntary Servitude. Forcing children to ride a bus away from their neighborhood school is SLAVERY. The children could have just as well been bussed to the COTTON FIELDS to pick cotton. Where was the one Lawyer to fight this many years ago? The problem is no Lawyer has the balls to fight the SWAMP except Trump. If I didn't want to keep my anonymity I would post here how I turned the U S Supreme Court on its ear and the Courts here in Colorado. Lawyers have told me I am dangerous and I am like a tic. I get under their skin. Tell me what is the difference from riding a bus and picking cotton against a child's will????? They are both SLAVERIES.

Nailed it... today's headline

"Kamala Harris reverses her stance on busing, says it should not be mandated"

The idea a taking a few of the best students out of poor, inner city schools and shopping them to the suburbs, okay.

Taking middle class suburb kids and shipping them into poor schools... lose!

People are talking how Kamilla Harris scored big against Biden by attacking his opposition to forced busing to desegregate schools in the 1970s.

While it may appeal to the African American community (who she's having trouble attracting due to their hatred of the criminal justice system and her having been a prosecutor. Which is why Biden hit back with "If you want to talk civil rights, I was a public defender and you were a prosecutor.), I'm not so sure that is a winning argument with most (by that I mean white, since white people are still 70% of voters).

Her argument seems to be that being shipped out of the dangerous, poorly funded, thug infested black inner-city school out into the safer, better funded, studious student populated white suburb school helped her get to where she is today. Ok, great. BUT, forced busing was not one way. An equal number of white kids were plucked from their safer, better funded, studious student populated white suburban school and shipped to dangerous, poorly funded,

I'm not sure a lot of white Americans are going to be super happy about the idea of busing their kids into the inner-city schools that they fled to the suburbs to get away from.

If the argument is "Raise taxes on the super rich to better fund schools, particularly those in poor inner-city neighborhoods", then WIN!

If the argument is "ship white kids into shitty inner-city, thug infested schools", then EPIC FAIL!