And here it is?
Opportunist Kamala Harris who threw down a ‘gotcha ‘ against Joe Biden about busing?
Now, quietly, says busing should be up to states?
Folks?
THAT is exactly what Joe Biden’s portion was back in the day when Harris WAS a kid….
Interesting, eh?
Sen. Kamala Harris said Wednesday that busing students should be considered by school districts trying to desegregate their locations — not the federal mandate she appeared to support in pointedly criticizing rival Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden last week.
Harris had a breakthrough moment at the candidates’ first debate when she criticized Biden for his opposition to mandatory school busing when he was a senator in the 1970s. Harris said she benefited from busing as an elementary school student in Berkeley, California, in the early 1970s.
“That’s where the federal government must step in,” Harris said, looking at Biden and winning a burst of applause from the auditorium in Miami.
On Wednesday, though, Harris characterized busing as a choice local school districts have, not the responsibility of the federal government.
Busing, while not central to the Democratic primary, has become a proxy issue for the debate between Biden and Harris over race as well as broader questions about whether the 76-year-old former vice president is out of step with his party…..
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As I wrote earlier, bussing came to Berkeley in the mid-1960’s by decisions of the locally-elected school board after vigorous controversy (including a failed recall vote), but that was a local decision that did not come at the direction of State or Federal government.
I think that this question depends on if it’s necessary to remedy long-established legal segregation of schools and neighborhoods. Justice Harry Blackmun, now a liberal hero, argued unsuccessfully for the school board and against court-ordered bussing in the landmark decision of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg[N.C.] Board of Education (1970). That’s no doubt one of the reasons that Richard Nixon appointed him to the Court.
Busing cuts MANY ways….
Harris used it as a foil….
Biden didn’t handle it right….
She is in the same ballpark as Biden on this…
Will the media note this?
Or
keep the gotcha going?