Today in Politico, Jason Sokol, a self-hating white man, a male version of Rachel Dolezal, who lives in Massuchettes but works in New Hampshire (one of the resons New Hampshire is having so many problems is Massuchettes people migrating there) wrote the peice entiteld How a Young Joe Biden turned liberals against Integration. Now the title is suspect because the peice is about forced busing, which was and still is widely unpopular and not about integration at all. But in Jason's mind integration means forced busing so lets play along with this fuckhead for a minute. In HIllary's famous words "Why does it matter" we are talking about things that happened in the early 70's. Should I dare to point out what Hillary's husband presided as President the integration rate of schools in the United States dropped dramatically. Bill Clinton oversaw the reversal of the gains made during the 70's and 80's towards racial integration that by 1996/1997 the integration rate fell bellow the levels of 1972 when around the time forced busing started. Morons like Sokol talk about resegregation, as though all the busing and integration the democrats started in the late 60's and 70's actually worked, it didn't.
Where did it go wrong for school busing? It starts with a place we all know well, Detroit. The riots that took hold of Detroit in 1967 were some of the worst in the nation, making Watts look like a cake walk. By the early 70's the city's public school population was nearly 70% black, while the suburbs were less than 20% blcack. Suburban flight was taking place hard in Detroit during these days. In 1971, the Milliken v. Bradley case, District Judge Stephen J. Roth found the Detroit School Board of keepign its schools racially segregated in violation of Brown v. Board. Problem was so many whites had already gone to the suburbs there weren't enough whites to integrate Detroits schools. So Judge Roth came up with a ingenious plan of judicial activism, include all the surrounding school districts and madated the state of Michigan create a busing plan to take thousands of black children out into the suburbs and white kids into lovely downtown Detroit. Eventually when Milliken made it to the supreme court it was done away with. Finding that since property taxes paid for the schools, one could not force another's child to a different school district. The reasoning was very sound and has been upheld to this day.
At the end of the day if allowed under Milliken to set the racial balance teste by the court, Detroit would have had to expland its bus fleet by 350 new buses, at a cost of over $12,000 a peice (around $60,000 today) in order to move tens of thousands of children across 53 independent districts, costing Detroit about $25 per student (around $200 today) per month at a time when the Detroit city school system was already several milions of dollars in debt. The South which in the 60's and 70's was a relative back water didn't have large cities like Detroit to deal with making busing a little more easy. The judical activism and grab by liberals in Detroit helped end large scale school busing forever.
Joe Biden was hardly alone in opposing forced busing. Sokol's alma matter, Berkeley (the end route of the gun tortise) tried to integrate in 1964 through busing, until local liberal white parents launched a recall election to throw the entire school board out, that's right, white liberals, like Sokol.
But what Sokol and his ilk don't understand and never will is that integration is not something you can force on one group through things like busing. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, forced desegrgation was a unenforceable demand on whites. Interestingly enough in a Gallop poll in 1972 showed 77 percent of whites were against busing, and so were 47% percent of blacks. Busing might have been something the black community had watned on mass if done correctly, surgically and with care. Forced busing nver was done this way.
The best integration is for blacks to move up the social ladder, for more blacks to enter the middle class and move out into the suburbs. Unfortunately for Sokol his idols Hillary and Barry Obama are far from the starlets in this area. During Obama's first five years, black unemployment increased by 42 percent, during Ronald Regan it dropped by 20 percent. It should be noted that several liberal magnets make up Sokol's twitter page such as the aforementioned Barry Obama and Elizabeth (Native American Princess) Warren.
To say that these schools are resegregating is beyond absurd, because these schools were never integrated in the first place. No racial balance was ever caused by busing. Middle class whites never did nor could they integrate with poor blacks, even if they were bused. King said that integration would only "be achieved by true neighbors who are willlingly obedient to unenforceable obligations."
The one true way to integrate poor black children with richer white children is to do what the Republicans have proposed, which is school vouchers. By giving poor black children the chance to go to rich white private schools you will achieve not only integration in a numerical sense, but also give these black children the chance to enter the middle class, ensuring that they will get a good education, that is not forced by taking a 2 hour bus ride. Creating magnet schools and having vouchers will not only improve African American education level, but achieve what the court set out for in Brown v. Board, true integration, what King wanted, not the fake integration of school busing.
Honestly Sokol is the worst kind of white liberal, I can only pray that he ends up in a Fedral Prison and gets to see how shit actually works, I doubt he would hold the views he has today, a good education to be sure. Sokol certainly has issues, his love of Clinton and attempt to go after Biden is pathetic and funny at the same time. Hillary runs her entire campaign with surrogates, Sokol is just a better educated Brock. I fully expect to see Media Maters go after Biden soon. I also expect Stephanopoulus and his media allies to also show up with media hit peices on Biden. Joe this is the treatment that awaits you. Clinton never gets her hands dirty, instead her Nixonian instincts let others do her dirty work.
Sokol is a progressive dolt, writing for publications like Salon, Slate and the like. I see him becoming a fixture for Hillary, as I am sure this was a planned attack, though it is obvious from his previous publications Sokol doesn't like Biden so maybe this is pure concidence. Unfortunately by running it Politico which I always felt was a step above Salon has become no better than Salon, in fact maybe worse. Sokol, I honestly think you are a peice of shit, I feel sorry for any student you teach, but as hacks go good luck with Hillary.
Lets face it when Biden was making these votes, Hillary was turning $1000 into $100,000 through corrupt schemes, so lets not play like what Biden did was all that bad, considering he had the support of not only a majority of the white community at the time but of a plurality of the black community as well. Jason go suck my dick.
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