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    Eric Zorn: Say it was so, Joe! Biden was right to oppose busing in the '70s

    by Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune Jul 03, 2019 3 minutes

    Kamala Harris made me feel young again on Thursday, when she turned to Joe Biden during a Democratic presidential primary debate and attacked him for having been against busing in the 1970s as a remedy for segregated public schools.

    "Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?" Harris asked. "Do you agree?"

    Suddenly I was back in high school. "Seasons in the Sun" was oozing out of my transistor radio. I was wearing cuffed, plaid

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