BREAKING: @MiniAOCofficial has deleted her account after her family was doxxed and received death threats pic.twitter.com/fz4TzYD13Y— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 3, 2019
Michael Eric Dyson compares Betsy Ross Flag to a swastika or burning cross during MSNBC hit. https://t.co/q0RAY4dqtW pic.twitter.com/EDoA7DgcZa
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) July 3, 2019
Weird that no one had a problem with The Betsy Ross Flag when it flew over Obama’s inauguration. Now it’s not patriotic... ok got it. 🙄 #morons https://t.co/wkxDRZs6bM
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 3, 2019
Frankly, that was the most enjoyable part of the game. 🤷♂️⚽️🤓🇺🇸👍 #USWNT #MeganRapinoe #WorldCup https://t.co/3dw4nfQ0Nm
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 3, 2019
No. 13 on her birthday. In honor of those 13 colonies.
— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) July 2, 2019
That’s. The. Tea 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Go on, @alexmorgan13, what a birthday! pic.twitter.com/Rge0HMMrCk
.@lamblock #Angels Pitcher #TylerSkaggs Has Died: https://t.co/tIIcMxUN3N 😢
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 1, 2019
How awful. Just 27 years old. https://t.co/JTO2Zx0QFP
— Nathan Fenno (@nathanfenno) July 1, 2019
Latest on @Angels LH Tyler Skaggs vs. Southlake Police Dept. (and @nathanfenno):
— mike hiserman (@MikeHiserman) July 1, 2019
The police were called to the team hotel and found him "unresponsive" in his room. "No foul play is suspected. This investigation is ongoing ..."
More from police regarding Skaggs: "At this time no foul play is suspected, and the investigation is ongoing."
— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) July 1, 2019
Southlake Police Department Press Release 7/1/19 pic.twitter.com/vgZTUBIc40
— Southlake DPS (@SouthlakeDPS) July 1, 2019
Angels statement on the passing of Tyler Skaggs. pic.twitter.com/6XA2Vu1uWV
— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) July 1, 2019
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) June 29, 2019
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) June 12, 2019
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) May 20, 2019
Today was a great day! pic.twitter.com/2uPbLh3IkU
— Madison Gesiotto (@madisongesiotto) June 21, 2019
Never mind what haters say, ignore them til’ they fade away 💤 pic.twitter.com/9Y0acu0L3h
— Madison Gesiotto (@madisongesiotto) June 29, 2019
Do you approve of the President’s unconventional foreign policy strategy with North Korea, China and others? pic.twitter.com/n8qGlQcGvm
— Madison Gesiotto (@madisongesiotto) July 1, 2019
Kamala Harris, Berkeley and busing >>> "Even in a city that had become a worldwide symbol of 1960s counterculture revolt, systemic racial prejudice in education and housing remained deeply entrenched." https://t.co/3sBXbF6yHe Excellent @LATSeema @melmason @finneganLAT— Shelby Grad (@shelbygrad) July 1, 2019
.@KamalaHarris: “I support busing. Listen, the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated, today than when I was in [school]...need to put every effort, including busing, into play to de-segregate the schools...fed govt has a role & a responsibility to step up." pic.twitter.com/a7ujueP0Bu— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) June 30, 2019
The school bus ride was less than three miles from one side of Berkeley to the other, but from 1969 to 1973 it transported Carole Porter to an entirely different world.
Like her neighbor and friend Kamala Harris, Porter was one of thousands of black children bused into predominantly white neighborhoods to learn. It was part of Berkeley’s bold experiment in desegregation.
But even in a city that had become a worldwide symbol of 1960s counterculture revolt, systemic racial prejudice in education and housing remained deeply entrenched.
“That’s a really hard thing to reconcile,” said Porter, 55. “Berkeley was an oxymoron. It was a contradiction in many ways.”
Harris’ three years of busing from her family’s mainly black working-class neighborhood to a prosperous white enclave in the hills overlooking San Francisco Bay was at once universal and uniquely Berkeley.
As in many American cities, the discriminatory housing policy known as redlining kept blacks from moving into white neighborhoods in Berkeley and busing fueled some white flight to the suburbs.
But unlike other sizable cities, Berkeley undertook its busing program voluntarily and required both white and black families to travel into unfamiliar neighborhoods. Rapid demographic and political changes shielded the community from the most extreme pushback, including violence, that hobbled busing efforts nationwide.
More than 50 years after Berkeley launched its busing program, Harris, one of its most famous participants, thrust it back into the spotlight in last week’s Democratic presidential debate.
As California’s first black senator chastised her rival Joe Biden for his fight against forced busing in the ’70s, she leaned on her personal history in Berkeley, portraying herself as a beneficiary of the charged battle for educational equality.
“There was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day,” Harris said. “And that little girl was me.”
Contrary to its enduring reputation as a progressive mecca, the Berkeley of Harris’ childhood was more politically muddled. The conservative John Birch Society operated two bookstores in the area. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that Democrats cracked a Republican stronghold on the city council. Black residents were restricted to living to the southern and western flats, while whites resided in the northern hills.
Thelette A. Bennett, 71, a retired vice principal of Berkeley High School, grew up in the same neighborhood as Harris.
Bennett’s father, a black World War II Navy veteran, was an airplane mechanic at a local naval air station in 1945, when redlining blocked him and his wife from buying a house in a white neighborhood. Even in the black neighborhood where they settled, she said, they needed to get a white real estate agent to buy a home and transfer it to them.
“There were only certain areas where they could buy a home,” Bennett said. “We lived where they allowed us to live.”
But a large influx of African Americans during and after World War II and whites affiliated with UC Berkeley were pulling the local politics to the left, paving the way for desegregation. Black leaders raised concerns about segregation in the city starting in the late 1950s.
In response, the school board studied the matter, concluding that all but three of the district’s 17 elementary schools and two of the three junior high schools were segregated. (Berkeley High, the city’s only high school, was integrated by default.) In 1964, the school board voted to desegregate its junior high schools.
Residents’ reactions were not as extreme as the segregation battles elsewhere in the country, such as the South, but “it wasn’t as far from that as you might assume,” said Natalie Orenstein, a reporter for local news site Berkeleyside. “There were definitely really angry parents and hours-long school meetings.”
Desegregation opponents launched recall campaigns of multiple school board members over the junior high busing program, but lost by a wide margin.
Questions to ask yourself this Monday: Do I have fewer in-person interactions because of social media? Am I using social media to pass the time? Has Twitter displaced any of my productive work? If my answer is yes to any of these, it’s time for a reset. https://t.co/7lpSKfZPYE
— Arthur Brooks (@arthurbrooks) June 17, 2019
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 29, 2019
Attacked by antifa. Bleeding. They stole my camera equipment. No police until after. waiting for ambulance . If you have evidence Of attack please help— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 29, 2019
On way to hospital. Was beat on face and head multiple times in downtown in middle of street with fists and weapons. Suspects at large.— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 29, 2019
In the ER. pic.twitter.com/spe5N4nzVl— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 29, 2019
BREAKING: New Angle Shows Antifa Thugs Who Battered Reporter Andy Ngo Were PREPARED FOR BATTLE -- WORE ASSAULT GLOVES during Beating @MichelleMalkin @MrAndyNgo @Jimryan015 @pnjaban— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) June 30, 2019
https://t.co/n1Olm5D4wd via @gatewaypundit
SICK. CAIR Portland Leader Attacks Michelle Malkin and Mocks Andy Ngo after he is Beaten and Robbed by Violent Antifa Thugs @MichelleMalkin @MrAndyNgo https://t.co/65lp01Uphl via @gatewaypundit— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) June 30, 2019
Help #PROTECTANDYNGO - Donate here ======> https://t.co/Cw5IwMY04U— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 29, 2019
Reporters and activists pile on to either mock or attempt to explain away the Antifa attack on journalist @MrAndyNgo in Portland. https://t.co/pWTsmOBpOB— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 1, 2019
Where were y’all? https://t.co/KU2QG284ZI— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 30, 2019
Thanks to all for the outpouring of support for our @Quillette colleague @MrAndyNgo. What happened was horrible, but at least it's caused a moment of reckoning for the journalists who've acted as pro-Antifa mouthpieces till now. Here's our @Quillette editorial about Andy's ordeal https://t.co/xCn2lqd2ZC— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) June 30, 2019
Selena Gomez Soaking Wet in a Red Bathing Suit - https://t.co/oLu1XgvUDt - pic.twitter.com/AMqhWUGUSc
— Taxi Driver (@TaxiDriverMovie) July 1, 2019
"Every single Democratic candidate supports amnesty for every non-criminal undocumented alien, while actually seeking to decriminalize crossing the border. This is political suicide." https://t.co/JpNrrEaXeO
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 28, 2019
