Now there's a good one.
You know exactly who these "over-entitled" white folks are. How can I tell? Because you said so: Subjecting, undeservedly, these "over-entitled" white folks' kids to the same standards as Those people's kids, would mean "to sacrifice their kids' future". And they, these "over-entitled" white folks are so entitled, they deserve better than having their kids sent to the same underfunded, overcrowded, dilapidated schools that were just right for Those kids.
Problem with that premise is that you absolve the people in those neighborhoods for the state of their schools... you complain about dilapidation while ignoring vandalism. You complain about overcrowding when you have families made up of a woman with multiple baby daddies and the government picking up the tab.
Wow, we "over-entitled white people", being involved in our neighborhood schools and looking out for our communities. We're all pricks.
While I usually enjoy watching you play (while I often disagree), your comments on race and busing are just plain disheartening. If a smart man, such as you, doesn't get it, the prospects for desegregated schools in particular, and race relations in general, are dire, indeed.
Oh, I agree, they are. But I put as much of the blame on that at the door of the Race Pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as I do as the racists like Trump. This was a stupid idea 40 years ago, everyone saw it, they all quietly let it die... and here's Kamela saying, "Why didn't you fight harder for a bad idea everyone hated at the time?"
Here's the other problem I have with busing. A ride on a bus does nothing to improve a kid's performance in math or science or reading. But it's an expense. The money spent running that bus every day is money they aren't spending on books or building maintenance. The salary they give that bus driver is a salary they aren't giving a teacher.
Once you are prepared to abandon the over-entitled white perspective, this debate might make sense.
Yeah, here's the problem I have with that. When Grandpa B131 (not our actual family name) came over here in 1925 with his wife and baby (My dad), no one handed him his "Welcome to the Entitled White Overclass" packet. In fact, given he came from Germany between WWI and WWII, no one was all that fond of Germans. So he stopped calling himself "Ludwig" and started calling himself "Louis", and started pronouncing the family name differently. He worked hard his whole life, lost a finger in a Pre-OSHA industrial accident, moved from his nice neighborhood after it changed into a slum. (fortunately, my Dad made a good enough salary to buy a two-flat and set his parents up.) Nobody put up bilingual signs for him. He and his wife had to learn English on their own.
My dad grew up during the Great Depression, he didn't have a lot to eat, was only 5'4" and probably weighed about 120 lbs soaking wet. Served in WWII (again, guys in his unit, not terribly fond of Germans) and came back and got a union job and worked hard all his life until he died at 56 from lung cancer (probably caused by asbestos.) Smart man, but never got to go to college.
Not to brag on myself, because honestly, I didn't make those kinds of sacrifices... but I worked pretty ******* hard for what I have. So I don't want to hear someone tell me that I am "entitled", thank you very much. I concede racism is a thing. I concede that being white, and male and straight, I've had advantages... But I don't apologize being the third generation of a family that's been busting it's ass since it got off the boat!
Because
opposition to busing in the North is just the slightly less vulgar, slightly less overt, but no less vicious and deleterious version of the Southern racism we are all so comfortable to condemn. There is nothing else to say about it, and Biden had his hands in it, up to the elbows. His
"defense" against Harris's "busing" charge is as spurious as it is disingenuous: “I want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice. I never, never, ever opposed voluntary busing.”
"Voluntary busing", my arse.
Yeah, when you don't want your kid to spend half his day riding on a bus to a slum, it's not because you worry about your kids, it's because you a racist.. even if the black family on the other side of town felt the same way about putting their kid on a bus for half the day.
Best moment of Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992 is when he FINALLY stood up to Jesse Jackson after Jackson invited Sister Souljah to his conference. YOu know, the one who said, "Let's go out and kill some white folks."
I'm hoping Biden stands up to Kamela in a future debate... but I doubt it.
