@alecui

> last time I checked Dems aren’t the ones with the racist rhetoric… Just saying 🤷‍♂️

They literally elected a president currently in office who spent most of his career being racist and literally started his career and made it the focus of his career to keep segregation alive... literally the first president in my lifetime who built a career on pro-segregation... Yea pretty sure the dems are still built on racist rhetoric, if they werent a man like that would have never even been a senator, let alone much more.

@freemo @alecui I dunno about this. At that time (I lived through this) there was a lot of opinions about what would be better for black scholastic achievement. To me, I would think busing would be very disruptive, and it probably was. So it was not clear that was the best choice. Also doing deals with nasty people is just part of being a politician as well, you can really fault one for trying to get the best deal possible, even if it is far from ideal. It is more likely that Joe Biden was just wrong on his political stance as judged by history. This is not unusual.

I mean you are talking about a guy who was VP for the first black US president, ever. No racist would have accepted that role.

At the end of the day, current actions speak louder than past mistakes, at least in my opinion. On this score, Republicans are doing poorly. Democrats, fairly well, if not as well as we might like. End of story.

@ambihelical

Anyone who looks into the speeches Biden has said on the topic makes it VERY clear his interest was not looking out for the black people. So regardless his past, his statements, make it quite clear his opinion came from a place of racism and not wanting his white child to be in school with black kids..

His exact words, for example:

"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle"

He clearly was worried about his white child being in a mixed race school... his concerns werent for the black kids.

@alecui