Police brutality is present day bullshit. Busing is historic bullshit - in general 40 years or more.

The way I remember it is that some people just didn't want kids from poor ghetto inner city neighborhoods integrated into the culture of low crime suburban like neighborhoods with higher quality schools they built after their parents had basically climbed the ladder and left behind a sort of ghetto themselves. Yes there was a pure racist group but there was also other kinds of tribalists.

This is why the concurrent real estate phenomenon of red-lining against black families trying to move in complicates. There were the people who didn't want black families of any class living next to them. But there were also those who wouldn​'t care if it were a black middle class family with the same values that didn't want their white kids bussed to bad schools in bad neighborhoods and poor black kids bussed to the schools in better neighborhoods.

The latter were the people that politicians like Joe were trying to placate. They wanted "neighborhood" schools, and neighborhood rules, and kids to grow up not urbanized and street wise but to have protected and idyllic childhoods.

Those that turned to parochial schools or other kinds of private schools to avoid the busing out to another neighborhood. Or they would just sell the house and buy another across the city line and into the suburbs themselves. It encouraged "white flight" and that was part of the problem that some politicians sympathetic to integration saw. Busing absolutely exacerbated white flight, including from whites that might not necessarily be so racist, they just wanted neighborhood schools and not to have their children in an urban world.

There were two kinds of tribalism involved. One very racist, the other more class and cultural. Within the context of this still being relatively recent, the post war suburban-like developments of "own the American dream" where you had your own little house and yard and car in driveway and your kids could walk to school. That was still relatively new, the working class had only relatively recently made it to that point and they didn't want to give it up to be dragged back to the inner city.

Ok, didn't know what you meant, as I didn't see anyone criticizing Braun in any articles for stating her opinion, they were criticizing Biden. I don't normally look at most replies to news tweets unless there's a ton of them, then I might just to check what is going on with that. They are not a wise use of reading time in most cases. It tells you nothing as they could even be bots. If someone or something of import pipes up with a reply to a tweet, eventually someone retweets it.

Edit to add: Plus an article like that gets tweeted by many people and the replies will differ depending on opinions of the circle of people who follow that person. I just used the tweet I first saw and I saw that one because it was retweeted by someone I follow, not cause I follow Bobic, I don't. Looking at his bio., my guess would be his followers were mostly fans of his reporting at HuffPo. This is actually the first time I saw his name.

Of course I'm never going to like that about Biden but it would have made more sense to say he worked with republican Newt Gingrich than racist democrat Eastman. And it would have created far less back lash.

ps: One thing I noticed is he doesn't even seem to know or understand the argument. He seemed genuinely surprised in the debate when Swalwell criticized his tax deal with McConnell when the bush tax cuts expired. It was in all the newspapers when Reid complained about Biden interjecting himself into the process and getting what he thought was a bad deal. The take away quote from Reid was that he told Obama he wasn't going to work on getting deals with McConnell unless Obama promised to keep Biden out of the process.

We can debate whether it was a good deal or not and Biden obviously thinks it was a good deal and is proud of it. But one should know the arguments the competition is going to use if one wants to be prepared to argue against them. Biden seems clueless about that.