Toddsterpatriot
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"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
Fact check: In 1977, Biden said without orderly integration, his kids would grow up in 'racial jungle'
The this he's talking about in that quote is inequality, segregation and racial animosity. In this same hearing he advocated for housing and job integration which he argued would lead to intergrated schools. It was only mandatory bussing he opposed, for whatever reason.
"You take people who aren't racist, people who are good citizens, who believe in equal education and opportunity, and you stunt their children's intellectual growth by busing them to an inferior school, and you're going to fill them with hatred," he said of a busing plan that would bus white students from the suburbs to urban schools.
He extended his concerns to a hypothetical black student from Wilmington too, wondering, "you send him to Alexis I. DuPont, bus him through Centerville every day, then send him back to the ghetto. How can he be encouraged to love his white brothers?"
Joe Biden worried in 1977 that certain de-segregation policies would cause his children to grow up 'in a racial jungle'
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle," Biden said.
