Our substitute teacher was alive during the beginning of desegregation. He’s a funny old white guy, he said that when he’s never spoken to any black person before up until that point. One day, he was seated right next to this black kid who loved talking about baseball. What was interesting is that they both shared the same first name, Robert. The teacher called their names, both of them looked at each and became close friends. He even showed us a picture of them bowling a few years ago.
That’s not at all true. I sure as hell was nervous, after I had the snot beaten out of me my first week (for being wht) and watched four of my best friends suffer the same thing, as middle-class whyt female teachers stood by and did nothing because they were scared of “looking racist”. Bussing was a disaster and both communities, blk and wht were against it. Your propagandised rhetoric does not match up to the real life experience of those who actually had to live through it. Also, I thought you lefties were all pro-democracy? These poor and working-class wht communities had no say in the matter. They were never, ever asked. It was imposed upon them. I guess you only like democracy when it benefits your own interests. But that’s typical of all leftists. That’s how you all are.
There was a lot of fights and bullying, as a result . It wasn’t easy being bussed to a different area. Sometimes it was downright rough. But we lived with it.
@@AAAA-gj7tn to make the judges and politicians who pushed it on the nation feel all warm and fuzzy inside because they thought they actually accomplished something. That's about it.
Grew up in Eastwood section of Fort Worth and was bused to Lily B. Clayton and then again to Westcliff Elementary. We had no problems at all. I had big fun at Westcliff
The historical aspect of this Interview makes me feel that I'm lucky to watch it live, I wasn't even born yet. Is there anyone watching this today can say yes this was was me talking? I would love to speak to this person.
I wonder if this was a major factor in some of the Dallas suburbs getting so much bigger. Think about Plano and how much it grew from the late 60's to the mid 70's.
Of course it played a role. The suburbs were in large part a result of desegregation for working class whites with families to move out of the cities. Then cities took lesser priority to spend resources on. Thus the further deterioration of those neighborhoods.
@@jimjoneshotkoolaid60 True . But the burbs in the Midwest Rust Belt were much more segregated and to this day the Midwest Rust Belt cites are much more segregated than the southern cites of Dallas Houston Atlanta Tampa Charlotte etc . Busing in the Midwest cites like Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland Akron Pittsburgh Cincinnati Gary was like the civil war.
Plano really grew in the 80s 90s . However the segregation and racial disparities in the Midwest are more blatant than the biggest cites in the south and Texas.
Critical Race Theory is about far more than talking about bussing and the integration of schools. Talking about honest historical fact is one thing. Idealogical indoctrination of children is quite another.
@@a1abama Thank God for Critical Race Theory. "Talking about honest historical fact is one thing. Idealogical indoctrination of children is quite another." So, I take it that you are against organized religion, then.
@@AAAA-gj7tn , if a particular organized religion is teaching something to children that runs contrary to the wishes of the parents, I would hope those parents find another religion, just as I would encourage parents to yank their children from a school that is teaching the heresy of CRT.
@@a1abama Well, parents have always had the right to yank their kids out of a school if they wanted to. The anti-racist parents are probably okay with CRT. From what I have been hearing, the racist parents are pulling their children out and finding schools with more racist curricula.
@@AAAA-gj7tn Nothing wrong with parents refusing to let their children be indoctrinated by subversive propaganda. CRT is an open door to indoctrinating white children with undeserved white guilt.
Hate is a reaction to other groups lack of character, disrespect, and propensity for violence. Racism is learned through contact with outsiders, thats why it still exists and is never going away.
@@PersistentPatriot And do you base that racism on everyone who shares the same skin color or phenotype? Would you still show disdain for a black person who was individually a respectable person? If you dislike multicultural societies, then you can go back to Europe. No need to move to non-white indigenous lands if you don’t wanna live with non whites.
@@PersistentPatriot Many white racists in Texas live in towns that have almost no minorities. Their contact with black people is through Fox Entertainment. Don't blame minorities for the ignorance of racists.
@@PersistentPatriot the literal start of racism in the U.S. was white Europeans believing that blacks were subhuman, no matter what their character was. Its funny when your type comes up with made up nonsense to try to excuse your racism even though white people literally started the problem here in this country but also hate black people because they havent achieved the same status or overcome every social problem only 60 years after they became legally allowed to drink from the same water fountain. Go to canada, there's an amazing new medical service they're offering that you should take advantage of.
The parents of blacks and whites were the ones to worry about at our school all the students watched out the window in shock as to what I can remember.I was 9 in 1972.
My mother left alaska in first grade, and went to the uw she got custody when I was in second grade. I moved to seattle with her. My brother went to school across the street when we arrived. I was told I had to wait a week to start school. 8 kids were on a city bus, we were told to hold hands, School had started weeks ago, we were told we would have to catch up. Nobody told me I had multiple classes. A black kid asked to borrow my pencil, then told me there was no pencil, asked if I had any money. I didn't have a schedule was asking where I needed to go. Didn't have pencil constantly late for class, spent most of the day in the principal's office. The principle was about 7 feet tall with a 6 inch fro. He was also my gym teacher. He taught me how to dribble a basketball, but later beat the shit out of me and another kid for being shoved off a bench. By the end of the week there were only 2 kids on the bus. Every day I told my mom what it was like, and asked why I can't go to school here, she said it was the law. I told my dad he got on a jet and came and rescued me. My brother decided to go back to alaska too. I have never really trusted my mom after that.
I was raised in an area of which the only time I saw people of a different skin tone… was television or when dad traveled outside our state region of northern Minnesota. But the first time I heard of an oncoming trouble was the New York riot of 64 I was a child, but my parents were planning a road trip to connect… we saw the aftermath of of the riot on our way back, seemed like miles of building were completely destroyed… it was my first lesson regarding politics and government, though I didn’t understand it at the time.
I remember that I got bussed 2 hrs away and the school I was supposed to go to was a 15 minute walk from my house. I was mixed race indigenous and white and to me it made no sense at all and they had a lot of racial fights
Gen x was the first to go through this. It was not easy being bussed miles and miles from your home to an unfamiliar area. And kids were so incredibly mean back then. We had no Internet to go to for support or to ask questions. Nothing. We were children without understanding and bullying was at an all time high both physically and mentally. Divorce rates climbed to an all time high during this time as well. It was loads of fun for us children.
This video was filmed in 1971. Generation X was born 1965 - 1980. So the very first to experience bussing were some in the Baby Boomer generation. The practice became more widespread though as GenX reached school age: "In 1971, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education unanimously upheld busing. The decision effectively sped up school integration, which had been slow to take root."
@@vidpie It was primarily Gen X and I think you're missing the point here. We were all children being used as guinea pigs (both black and white children being thrown into a rat maze) instead of the adults coming together with a more peaceful and harmless solution. But that's our politicians and scientists. They both act before they think.
children are much more meaner nowadays , and internet affects their brain a lot , we have a lot of social problems and one of them is mental health , unless back then children used to be more open minded and friendlier
@@princephillip9572 I'm not sure if children are necessarily meaner, as they really cannot get away with too much these days with the billion cameras on them 24/7, but they are more suicidal (statistically recorded) and they are incredibly vain or incredibly insecure - just depending on who their parents or caretakers are. Yes, the Internet along with social media is horrible for many children and it's just as bad for many adults. I have personally stopped using social media aside from my business page and I've not felt this good in a while. We were not meant to see everyone's fleeting thoughts and what everyone is doing every second of the day. We were not meant to have the whole world in our back yard every second of the day. Children were completely without understanding back then - most of them were anyway. Now, instead of just mimicking their parents or siblings or other kids at school, they are mimicking every darn thing they see on the Internet. There are so many good things about the Internet. For one, I like to be able to look up instructions quickly on how to do something. But I don't think our society was ready for it. Hate spreads exponentially fast now thanks to the Internet.
@@vidpie hmmm, I was replying to someone else and noticed that I cannot see my reply to you. Not sure what that is about, but anyway, yes, I know. I was born in 1970 myself. It was primarily Gen-X that suffered this, but it does not really matter. The point is that children suffered this - both African American children and children of European descent. I know that sounds silly, but I'm kind of getting tired of hearing and using the descriptions black and white for people - there is no such thing as black people or white people. As an artist, I can tell you the skin color of people comes in thousands of different color values. Children were used as guinea pigs to solve a very serious problem. This was not the way. Look at the division our country is going through right now and this division grows exponentially fast now thanks to the Internet. There are still many unresolved issues because we have yet to find a leader with a truly loving heart and an enlightened soul. Oh sure, on the surface, things may be looking better here and there, but there's something under the surface that is getting ready to explode and that's because desegregation was never ever approached the right way.
@@sabrinashelton1997 all progress is good. And I can tell you, without hesitation, that your mom should’ve been more progressive in her practice with contraceptives. The only good racist is a dead racist. Can’t wait for your day. 😘
Nope, like I said, not all progress is good. Take a look around this country right now. It's a f-ing disaster, and deep inside your mind, you know that, but you have to double down on your beliefs because you have lied so long, you can't back off it now...sort of like Amber Heard.
My brother went to Dallas SD in the mid-70's during this time. Many of the poor black kids weren't disciplined very well by their parents and would steal from my brother. A few were even violent towards him like the kid @ 2:00 says. My mother was so angry with the busing that she sent my brother to a Christian Private school instead for a couple years.
My idyllic elementary school in Dallas turned into a postapocalyptic thunderdome overnight due to busing. All the students ended up worse off and the weaker students suffered tremendously. I had no idea girls could be so violent until after busing. Seeing a sweet teacher I'd known since kindergarten beaten with a heavy textbook because she had the audacity to ask a black girl to quiet down so we could start class is burned into my mind forever. The look of shock and agony on her face during the brutal attack was heartbreaking. I still have contact on social media with many classmates and we discuss how forced busing obliterated much of our school experience.
@@edward0383 said only by someone who hasn't suffered the nightmare of a school with a large percentage of them. They ruin everything they touch and if you know you know.
@@sabrinashelton1997 let me guess…you’re an old white racist who thinks she’s tough. Stop generalizing a whole race with the word “them”. You’re filthy.
Ahhh but this is what America wanted no? The glorious integration of holding hands singing together, lol no……reality will always slap people in their face when they forget the past. But who cares now, this is the American dream now everyone has to sit and marinate in it. I truly wish black Americans would have let this dream of integration die
OMG Comstock was a rough school, I remember when it was an all white area, now it's an all black area, I was at Gaston Jr. high and got expelled for fighting & not backing down to the blacks bullying and harassing everyone, including the teachers & staff.
One of the main issues was not discrimination aganst anyone, like they try and make you think, but that many people when buying a home do so because the school their kids will attend is very important to them another is they wanted a school in walking distance and this was unfair to be forced to bus their kids 20 miles away.
My Dad was bussed to a Black school in Dallas as a middle school student and some of them attacked him from behind in the school hallway and he had a concussion and broken back. His Dad left a good job and they moved into a rural area so they could get away from it.
@@MsMollah In the video, you can hear one of the black kids say his friends are troublemakers. Each race has its bad apples. So yes, what your father experienced was real, and I'm sorry you had to hear about it.
I'd love it if I was able to have a black gal be my friend in school...I learned how to fight after being jumped so many times...I was a sweet friendly kid too...I'm still open for that, I forgave it... it never made me racist.. I never thought racism was ok at all. .I was loud about it and proactive..
The interviewer had the audacity to say he didn't see what's he was so concerned about. If that were the case why was he there asking questions about? Idiot! He was taken aback she was so intelligent and articulated herself better than he did, couldn't think of anything intelligent to follow up with. I hope she got out of that place, they didn't deserve her.
That was the 1960s y’all! Do you know if you get locked up in California today right now, you will be racially segregated. Because because it is more convenient for an officer to do his job and pacify a A person that can no longer be looked upon as a person because they are different. All great countries were built on this principle, united we stand divided we fall call mom en la onion esta La Fuersa
@@angryiguana7492 Don't believe everything you see on TV and in movies. No one was shit on "because of their skin". 🙄 And you should know that no one wanted integration. Black people didn't want it either. It wasn't just whites.
Omg I remember this very well. I was 15 at the time . I was also transitioning from male to female and I was picked on for not only being Hispanic but for being a transsexual. It was very hard times. I’m 65 now and I still remmeber this like it was yesterday
I’m an immigrant from Africa and have been living here the last 8 years . This is shocking information. I did not know there were trans people as far back in the early 70s. Wow!
Looing and hoping my mom or uncle is in these videos. 2:14-2:16 This gotta be somebodys mom. I would love for others from West Dallas to see this. Racism! Racism is what they wont say.
I agree it’s like they didn’t want to say the word Racism. I wish others from West Dallas could see the too.I’m from West Dallas and just saw a post of this video on Instagram so came here hoping to see some of my cousins or friends. I attended Pinkston in 96’.
I was bussed in the late 80s it was horrible the 1st yr!! The white kids were bullied horribly even some teachers didn't want us there 😢 it was a k-5 school. After the first yr we were finally treated like the other kids and we ended up making life long friends
Integration will always be a challenge, even today, but I believe the overall purpose of this was to point out if a child lives within a four to eight mile radius of a school, they should not be barred from entering because of the color of their skin. Busing kids from a school that sits in front of their house, for example, to a school that sits across town will always leave parents in an uproar. Videos like these always interests me.
Pssstttt…: our kids still have to read and do research. They just have more technology than you did. Which adds to their intellectual advances while you’re still stuck where you were when you finished your 4th grade education ;) have the day you deserve
My family was part of the “white flight”movement. We moved from Fort Worth to the suburbs in the mid 1970’s because they were going to forcibly bus my sister to Como for first grade. I was only a toddler, so I don’t remember any of it, but my parents often talked about how they had to uproot their lives and leave behind the neighborhood they had loved for many years because of this nonsense.
They uprooted their lives because they wanted too. Not because they had to. They’re not victims of anyone or anything. Why couldn’t they just move to a neighborhood they liked just as much? 🎻 😞
Ever considered that it might be about the income level rather than race? Of course private schools are better off and calmer than Public schools in lower income areas. There are less kids from broken families and abusive homes and dangerous areas in private schools. Kids who are mistreated, grow in violent environments and have food insecurity are bound to show behavioural issues and have mental problems. Also the staff in private schools is a whole different level and often cares more and handles kids behavioural issues better.
I was in 7th grade in Ft Worth when busing started. It was scary initially as Black and White kids bunched together for a few weeks but eventually we adapted. Then 50 years later BLM wrecked what we started.
I'll bet most of the people who think bussing was a good idea never saw it up close. In my area, it was a constant disruption and distraction, due to the fighting and hard feelings.
I experienced terrible racism at Richardson Junior High and at Berkner High school in the 70's. Race riots at both schools. The whites were horrible and the blacks took every opportunity to retaliate. Just Tragic. Everson "Cubby" Walls actually saved me from being bullied by his friends one day. I'll never forget it. There is hope.
Why don't you just say bullying? This whole "racism" crap is so old and tired and you're only using it to talk badly about whites when I'm sure you probably had about the same experience or worse with blacks. 🙄
@@skip031890Lol you conservative kids are so sheltered and indoctrinated. These are REAL life that people lived through. You’re acting as if the 60s and 70s were 100 years ago. Plenty of blacks who suffered are most likely 60 years old today. Assuming your parents didn’t teach you this.
