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A viral Gateway Pundit post accuses Kamala Harris of lying that she was part of the second integrated class at her school.
She was correct. The Berkeley school district confirmed it to me: busing started in ‘68, she enrolled in ‘69. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/28…
She was correct. The Berkeley school district confirmed it to me: busing started in ‘68, she enrolled in ‘69. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/28…
Deleted and reposted that tweet to remove any accidental ambiguity about who was correct here.
Berkeley had de facto segregation, not complete segregation imposed by law — so there were a smattering of black students at Harris’s elementary school long before the integration plan was implemented in ‘68. But in ‘63, it was just 2.5% black.
Gateway Pundit said Harris was lying because Berkeley High was integrated before she was born.
It was...but it’s the city’s only public high school, so it was mixed by necessity. Elementary schools were different. A committee found 14 of 17 de facto segregated in the early ‘60s.
It was...but it’s the city’s only public high school, so it was mixed by necessity. Elementary schools were different. A committee found 14 of 17 de facto segregated in the early ‘60s.
