When Kamala Harris delivered her busing "left jab right hook" story to Joe Biden in the first 2019 Democrat Presidential debate she became an instant media darling.
Stephen Colbert could not stop gushing about Kamala Harris and her "second girl to be bused" story.
The problem is Kamala Harris may have misrepresented the entire busing issue just for her temporary moment of Democrat Debate fame and the instant bump in the Presidential polls that it produced.
The underlying reason why politicians were flip flopping on the busing issue back in the 70's and 80's, and presumably Joe Biden was one of them, was the issue of distance busing. Parents of all races were most concerned about how far in terms of mileage and distance their children were being bused.
Kamala Harris's "second girl to be bused" story most likely falls completely apart were we to discover that she was only bused a few miles from home.
Kamala Harris created a Rosa Parks narrative and applied it to herself during the first 2019 Presidential Democrat debate. It will be interesting to see if Donald Trump picks up on Kamala "Rosa Parks" Harris and reminds the world that being "bused" a few short miles has virtually nothing to do with the underbelly of busing and the students who were bused anywhere from 30 minutes to 90 minutes twice a day in what possibly was a seat beltless, pollution belching, quivering, vibrating, loud bus that was not even conducive to reading.
Kamala "Rosa Parks" Harris owes her Vice Presidency selection to her second girl bused meme and maybe it is time to call her on it in the name of honesty and respect to the students and their parents who did not have the right to accept or deny their children taking a 30 minute to 90 minute bus trip twice a day in a possibly carcinogenic spewing mode of transportation.
One of the untold anguishes of busing were the students who had to forfeit after school programs, including the sports programs, because there was no later bus to take them home. Meanwhile, Kamala "Rosa Parks" Harris was apparently bused a very short distance by comparison and most likely has no right to hijack what it meant to be bused for her own political gain.
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