Can we dispense with the crime bill though? The Congressional Black Caucus supported it, the right thought it wasn't harsh enough, Bill Clinton campaigned on making it stronger with three strikes and you're out.
Point is the Crime Bill itself was considered relatively moderate and was fully supported by Black politicians. It wasn't until folks recognized the institutional bias in the application of the law; measured the disparate impact of the outcome, that it became apparent it was wrong.
Waiving that fallacy around as proof of Biden being racist is factual erasure. I thought we established yesterday we wouldn't try to rewrite history or spin it.
Why go through the creation of a myth when you have Cornpop you can cite to?
As for the "jungle comment" in 1977...Just before the remark, Biden advocated for "orderly integration of society" rather than school integration via busing. "I am not just talking about education but all of society," he said.
As for the quote, the man is literally stating that he doesn't want lip service done to integration, that the thinks white resentment will be high with forced bussing, guess what, "school choice" is the literal offshoot of Biden's point. The full quote in context speaks for itself. If this is your standard of "racism" that is outrageous, man, I have some GOP and DNC quotes that are going to blow your socks off.
We have a fundamental disagreement, you and I, I suspect, as to what is needed to ensure that we do have orderly integration of society. I am not just talking about education but all of society.
I do not know your total position. Mr. Taylor has stated his as have others. I am anxious to hear from Mr. Flemming of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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. We have to go make some move on this. You say I am throwing the brick. I am not as good at analogies and homilies as all of you are, but I think pushing bussing in a way in which it goes beyond the constitutional mandates
is like throwing a bus through the civil rights window.
I think it has repercussions that are extensive in terms of the ultimate objective of seeing that we get integrated neighborhoods, of seeing that we eventually eliminate job discrimination, of seeing that we change housing patterns, of seeing alteration of the tax structure.
