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Let’s be clear here: The opposition was to court-ordered desegregation, not to busing. There was no vehicle that would lead to widescale desegregation that white people would not have reacted viciously to. Let’s be clear on the real culprit: Racism.
White kids *never* bore the brunt of busing. It was black kids most of the time who were bused out of black neighborhoods and into white schools and rarely in the inverse. The opposition was not to busing but to large numbers of black kids entering white schools.
Funny how in this discuss no one ever brings up Charlotte (Swann v Mecklenburg Co) or all the places across the South where busing was successfully implemented and with profound results.
White journalists readily buy into this faux idea of busing because many of them would not enroll their kids in schools with large numbers of black kids either and it is easy to pretend the opposition was to the vehicle and not to Integration .
White resistance to integration occurred no matter what. And white flight occurred both in cities that implemented buses for integration and those that never had busing for integration. Again, racism was the problem, not busing.
Millions of white kids rode buses everyday to get to school and it was never a problem until it because a tool of desegregation. And today in diverse cities white parents opt to bus their kids everyday to *AVOID* heavily black schools.
People often forget that Linda Brown sued for the right to attend her neighborhood school instead of the black one further away.
White people were FINE with busing when busing was a tool for segregation. I wish journalists would study this history so it can presented correctly.
White people were FINE with busing when busing was a tool for segregation. I wish journalists would study this history so it can presented correctly.
White racism should not determine the constitutional rights of black children.
In NYC, for example, both pre- and post-Brown, white children were bused away from their neigh schools at the behest of their parents in order to keep them out of heavily black schools. Funny that busing wasn’t the problem until the DOE decided to bus black kids for integration.
