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Mave brought up his working with the senator segregationists or the issue where we have evidence on the record of him opposing federally mandated bussing to integrate our nations school system. why do you think he cant just say, i was on the wrong side of history, and i change my mind? >> quite frankly, i would rather he do that, because i think he was on the wrong side of history. bussing back then was very controversial. there were a lot of people who agreed with him, even african-americans, a...

>> there was a little girl in california part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> the fact is in terms of bussing, the bussing, you would have been able to go to school the same exact way because it was a local decision made by your city council. thats fine. thats one of the things argued for, that we should not, we should break down these lines. >> vice president biden, do you agree today that you were wrong...

"boycotts busing and beyond" said this was important for integration. he said if it wasnt for busing during that time period we wouldnt have gotten our first african-american president. that social interaction helped break down the barriers. he also said bidens old views warrant a broader explanation. are we going to get a broader explanation? >> well, youll hear on the date. i think the last part of what you just said is the thing. vice president biden was vice president to barack obama. if you...

That biden was for dealing with the underlying issues of integration over bussing. im trying to represent that, however, i will say the proponents or historians look back and say, bussing helped with getting integration going in practice, not just in theory, as the supreme court had determined two decades before. is cedric richmond wrong? >> no, the facts are there, and the history is well recorded. it did help in terms of the integration of our public schools. >> what is he saying? >> i think t...

The integration efforts, that they want to continue to segregate, the question is, in the language of local control, and states rights, those are coded language for separate but equal. and the resistance to integration efforts. i think theres a lot thats changed over the last 50 years. but one thing that has reasserted and rez rikt recolle over the last 20 years -- this is a question about what lessons are we going to draw from earlier integration. >> i want to ask you about that, but in i may, ...

Change. joe biden is nostalgia. thats the question. >> totally political, but only the ethnic piece is a political part of the piece. have african americans generally took a look last night and saw somebody who could knock the block off of donald trump? >> i think senator harris was already someone that people were looking at saying she is qualified. i think last night made her even more qualified in the eyes of some people. i will say ive talked to some voters who are worried that after barack ...

Been able to go to school the same exact way because it was a local decision made by your city council. thats fine. thats one of the things argued for, we should be breaking down these lines. >> vice president biden do you agree today -- do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in america? do you agree? >> i do not oppose busing in america. what i opposed is busing ordered by the department of education. >> reporter: that moment shining new light on a long ago chapter of bidens li...

Brown. is it fair to say that even liberal berkeley california, there was still resistance to bussing, and was it just bussing or school integration as a whole? >> i think the mechanism and methods through which school integration is achieved requires issues around school resource equity, school funding, teacher diversi diversity. theres a lot of components to it, in that period of time, bussing was the most effective way in which schools were integrated. and so the resistance to that method was...

>> hes got a lot to say and a record hes proud of on civil rights and i think voters know. he spent eight years of vice president of barack obama. he has laid out plans that will help ensure that everybody gets a fair shake including an education plan, that includes extending obama/biden guidance from the department of education on ensuring were fully integrating schools. i think theres an attempt to suggest somehow that joe biden was opposed to school integration which i think is ludicrous and ...

Irrespective of race, ethnicity, and what neighborhood is continually dictating the access to unto the. thats a question for today, not just in 1968 in berkeley, thats not a question just in berkeley, but across the country. >> professor johnson, you describe yourself as pro biden, you said you were disappointed in his comments last night, tell me why? >> i do think that i -- i know that hes been a champion of civil rights issues. on integration, the record particularly in this period was one in...