I’ll start this thread by saying “Fck Trump” republicans and democrats b/c apparently calling out Joe Biden’s racism means I support TrumpI’m an independent that is consistent with calling out white supremacy and racism regardless who it is, nobody is above criticism

Joe Biden has been in Congress for 40+ years and over time has created, implemented, supported and upheld racist and white supremacist laws, polices and regulations that have negatively impacted the black community including supporting segregation and mass incarceration

In 1975 Biden wrote and sponsored a bill ,with open segregationists and white supremacist, that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing and barred the federal government from withholding funding from schools that remained effectively segregated.

Co-sponsors included segregationist Sens.Jesse Helms n Strom Thurmond,Political experts and education policy researchers say Biden did not simply compromise with segregationists he also led the charge on an issue that kept black students away from the classrooms of white students

“His legislative work against school integration advanced a more palatable version of the “separate but equal” doctrine and undermined the nation’s short-lived effort at educational equality, legislative and education history experts say.”

Jack Greenberg, one of the lawyers who had won the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation, n longtime director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said the bill “heaves a brick through the window of school integration,”Biden was the man with his hand on the brick”

Biden would have a showdown on Capitol hill against Ed Brooks, The first Black American popularly elected to Senate, Brooks was a large advocate and fought for integration and equality

For Brooke, integration was an absolute imperative. “Segregated schools denied black children equal opportunity. We had all-black schools and all-white schools,he recalled later Busing was the best thing that we had to at least desegregate the schools at that time in our history”

Biden sided with conservatives and sponsored a major anti-busing amendment. The fierce debate that followed not only fractured the Senate’s bloc of liberals, it also signified a more wide-ranging political phenomenon

Biden was particularly effective in fighting integration because he did not use the overtly racist language of the segregationists, who warned of race mixing n black inferiority, Instead, Biden, talked about “forced busing” local control” parents rights.”

Brooke’s called the vote on Biden’s amendment “the greatest symbolic defeat for civil rights since 1964.” He argued that Biden’s amendment would eliminate virtually every remedy for segregation, as school systems would be prohibited from assigning students on the basis of race

no matter what the method. Brooke accused Biden of effectively leading an assault on integration. As Boston NAACP leader Tom Atkins put it in March 1975, “An anti-busing amendment is an anti-desegregation amendment, and an anti-desegregation amendment is an anti-black amendment.”

A 1977 report on school desegregation by the Civil Rights Commission, a federal agency, described Biden’s activities as “stymieing school integration”, his own Vice President running mate Kamala Harris called him out for supporting anti busing and hindering integration

During the anti busing hearings Biden said “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 got to make some move on this."

As white voters around the country—especially in the North—objected to sweeping desegregation plans then coming into practice, liberal leaders retreated from robust integration policies.

In 1974 Biden home state of Delaware was facing desegregation plans, the white parents became furious Delaware residents had formed the New Castle County Neighborhood Schools Association in order to resist desegregation.

In June 1974, the group organized an event at the Krebs School in Newport, Delaware—as Brett Gadsden details in Between North and South. The event’s coordinator had recently declared, “We’re going to hound Biden for the next four years if he doesn’t vote our position.”

Sen. Jesse Helms, a Republican from North Carolina and an open segregationist and White supremacist was the first to strike. On September 17, 1975, when a larger education bill came up for debate, Helms offered a crippling anti-integration amendment.

For perspective Jesse Helms was an open segregationist, racist and white supremacist in 1966 he mailed 125,000 fliers to heavily Black districts in North Carolina saying African-Americans would be imprisoned if they voted

He referred to UNC – the University of North Carolina – as the University of Negroes and Communists. conducted a 16-day filibuster against establishing the Martin Luther King federal holiday, opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Helms act would prevent the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from collecting any data about the race of students or teachers. In addition, HEW could not “require any school … to classify teachers or students by race.”

This is an amendment to stop the current regiments of faceless, federal bureaucrats from destroying our schools.”

Biden rose to support Helms’ amendment. “I am sure it comes as a surprise to some of my colleagues … that a senator with a voting record such as mine stands up and supports [the Helms amendment].” Helms replied that he was happy to welcome Biden “to the ranks of the enlightened.

We can speculate but when an open segregationist and white supremacist says “ranks of the enlightened” he’s dog whistling about supporting white supremacy

Biden launched an anti-busing screed. “I have become convinced that busing is a bankrupt concept.” The Senate should declare busing a failure and focus instead on “whether or not we are really going to provide a better educational opportunity for blacks and minority groups

then Brooke sprung to action. The Helms amendment would eviscerate Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Brooke said, which enabled HEW to cut off funding to school districts that refused to integrate.

Brooke asserted that the federal government should attempt other integration remedies before resorting to busing. “But if compliance with the law cannot be achieved without busing, then busing must be one of the available desegregation remedies.

Brooke introduced a motion to table Helms’ amendment. Brooke’s motion passed, 48-43. Biden wouldn’t budge, and voted with Jesse Helms and the anti-bussers.

Immediately after the Helms amendment was tabled, Biden proposed his own amendment to the $36 billion education bill, stipulating that none of those federal funds could be used by school systems “to assign teachers or students to schools … for reasons of race.”

His amendment would prevent “some faceless bureaucrat” from “deciding that any child, black or white, should fit in some predetermined ratio.”

He explained, “All the amendment says is that some bureaucrat sitting down there in HEW cannot tell a school district whether it is properly segregated or desegregated, or whether it should or should not have funds.” Finally, Biden called busing “an asinine policy.”

By this point Biden has recruited other liberals to turn against integration including, Senator Robert Byrd the former grand wizard of the KKK, It passed the Senate by a vote of 51-45.

Perhaps Brooke foresaw the new political consensus that would take shape in the ensuing decades: Liberals would pay homage to the civil rights movement and its dream of integration, but refrain from championing the legislation that would make that dream a reality

Few white Northerners viewed busing as a way to provide equal opportunity for black children. In fact, by the mid-1970s, whites viewed themselves as the aggrieved party when it came to busing.

They believed that African Americans had already won their rights with the civil rights bills of the previous decade. With little regard or care for whether African American children would be confined to segregated schools,

whites thought  their rights were violated if their children couldn’t attend “neighborhood schools.” Remember history repeats itself and this mindset a lot of white liberals have disguised behind “school choice”

Trumps uses Joe Biden’s talking points when he panders about the suburbs and parents should have the right to send kids where they want, it’s the same dog whistling Joe Biden used 40 yrs ago to hinder integration