Clueless Article On Busing

I had to laugh at this thoroughly clueless article on busing, which apparently is making a comeback in Maryland:

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It was there that progressive White parents mobilized with other groups to try to stop a school integration plan that would bus poor students, who were mostly Black and brown, to more affluent, whiter schools.

Now notice that framing--that opposition to busing is about not wanting Blacks to get into better schools. Putting it that way does make it seem pretty racist, right? And the article goes on and on in that particular vein:

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Black Lives Matter signs are showing up on more White people's lawns today. But statistics suggest that these lives don't matter as much if more Black people start sending their children to school with White kids.

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"Once White parents have access to a school district that they feel is working well for their kids, they try to do everything they can to create barriers around it to keep the resources for themselves and their very small number of peers," he says.

Notice how the focus is always on the movement in one direction--sending the Black kids to a white school. But guess what? Busing is not solely about sending Black kids to white schools. You've gotta make room for those Black kids, and the way you do it is you load a bunch of white kids on a bus and take them on a nice long ride to the schools where the black kids came from. And that is what the white (and some black) parents oppose.

Look at the picture that heads the piece. Yes, some of the protesters are white, but not all of them, and in fact it looks like a pretty diverse group. Most of them have the preprinted signs, but the hand-written ones reveal the parents' concern: "Long Commute=More Stress", "Hour-long bus rides are not [unreadable]", and another one talks about sleep.

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