as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King day

Troy MI

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One has to wonder what Dr. King would think of that grand daddy of all white supremacists, our esteemed fuehrer Joseph R. Biden. Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say. In a 1975 Senate hearing, the legendary civil rights lawyer Jack Greenberg had something to say to freshman Sen. Joe Biden. Greenberg, longtime director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, took Biden to task for sponsoring a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing. It was a move that followed the wishes of many of Biden’s white constituents in Delaware. The bill “heaves a brick through the window of school integration,” said Greenberg, one of the lawyers who had won the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended legal school segregation 21 years earlier. And according to Greenberg, Biden was the man with his hand on the brick.