Democrats are on a losing streak
By Richard Cohen
Columnist
July 8 at 6:18 PM
The bevy of Democrats running for president seems determined to test my silent vow never to vote Republican, especially for President Trump. The truth is that I cannot imagine that happening, but I can imagine entering the voting booth with about a colonoscopy level of enthusiasm. Please, can we get this over with?
At the moment, the party is squabbling over what is called forced busing to achieve school desegregation. It seems the party has forgotten that, with the possible exception of the Civil War draft, no program has been more hated by working-class Democrats — more whites than blacks, but plenty of blacks as well. In large U.S. cities, busing was seen as an effort by liberals to send white kids to schools they would not, for a moment, send their own kids to. In Boston, the spiritual home of the antibusing movement in the 1960s, the populace had not been as furious since King George III bivouacked his unwashed redcoats in the tidy homes of American patriots.
The leader of that antibusing movement was Louise Day Hicks , a wife, a mother, a lawyer and a fearsome racist firebrand. She rode the movement clear into Congress, and she came close to becoming Boston’s mayor, losing by only 12,000 votes. By then she had proved that busing was loathed in white, working-class America. Mobs formed in the streets, and the cops had to be called. Busing was sometimes the only remedy for school-board gerrymandering, which carved districts in such a way that schools were racially segregated. Since you could not move the schools, you had to move the kids. The law, not to mention equity, demanded it. Hicks and others, not to put too fine a point on it, did not give a damn about the law.
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We can walk and chew gum at the same time dude, try it........................maybe you should write an opinion about your owner not paying one dime in taxes and making a millions in profit, instead of us trying to pander ......................really you should look in the mirror..........
And as a added measure dude, maybe if you can read: Democracy in Chains, by Nancy MacLean, and fully grasp what Virginia was doing to public education in the 1950 through the 70's when Brown vs Board of Education was passed....................take a look at one economist by the name of James Buchanan.................................and what he created, with help, like the Federalist Society and libertarian agenda jerks led by the Koch's.............. or do you not want to talk about that Cohen.................busing is mentioned in her book ..............................
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