#forced busing

BEING AGAINST FORCED BUSING DOESN’T MAKE YOU A RACIST – GARRY ARMSTRONG

A wildly appropriate post for flashback Friday I was in the middle of what I honestly call the Boston busing fiasco. On center stage, it played as a racial divide between Boston’s white and minority communities. It played well in the media – especially national and international media where they didn’t understand the local sentiments. The local news stations did a little better — when they…

BOSTON BUSING AS I REMEMBER

During my ABC Network News stint (3 years), I covered major international stories. These included the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam. While I was in Vietnam in 1967, I met LBJ who revealed he wouldn’t seek re-election because of the domestic fallout from the Vietnam war — confidential information revealed weeks before Johnson addressed the nation. I was also in Chicago during the…

POLITICO Magazine: Opinion: Jason Sokol: How a Young Joe Biden Turned Progressives Against Integration

U.S. Senator Joe Biden

POLITICO Magazine: Opinion: Jason Sokol: How a Young Joe Biden Turned Progressives Against Integration

Just to give a little background on Joe Biden the current Vice President of the United States and a six term U.S. Senator from Delaware before that. He would be described today as a New Democrat, or what I like to call the real Liberals in the Democratic Party. And a…

Slate: Opinion: Tanner Colby: How The Left’s Embrace of Busing Hurt The Cause of Integration

Slate: Opinion: Tanner Colby: How The Left’s Embrace of Busing Hurt The Cause of Integration

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger

As a Liberal I believe in things like equal opportunity, Equal Justice Under the Law, wrote a blog about that yesterday. Equal Protection Under Law all of these great liberal values that I believe puts me in a solid majority in America and…