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I cannot stay on Twitter today because I have a draft due, but @esglaude and others PLEASE stop saying tht busing failed. Busing for school desegregation worked in many, many places. It helped move the South from complete apartheid to what remains the most integrated region of US
There are a host of examples of where busing succeeded, mostly in countywide districts where white people could not simply avoid integration by moving across an invisible municipal line to an all-white school district. Look at Charlotte before busing ended. Jefferson Co. Wake Co.
When given no escape hatch, many white people just dealt with it. And for all those white pundits who say they disliked busing bc it hurt black kids, please show me all the times you have voiced concern and advocated for black children stuck in segregated, under-resourced schools
And if anti-busing for desegregation was simply about white people wanting neighborhood schools, then answer the question why in diverse cities like Chicago and NYC and San Francisco, white parents fight for a system that allows their children to avoid neighborhood schools.
