Before attacking Kamala Harris for "mischaracterizing" Biden's views, please look at what she said

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31. He sponsored and voted for federal anti-busing legislation

Among other things, his legislation prohibited the use of federal funds for busing for integration - that applied to any school district in the country, whether the busing was voluntary or court-ordered.

And as you correctly note, busing was only one method of desegregation. But when it was ordered by the court, it was in order to effectuate redistricting plans after all other methods to get the school districts to desegregate had failed. But there was no such thing as "forced busing." Busing was provided in order to get kids to school when they were assigned to different schools. There was no requirement that they actually get on a bus.

As I mentioned in another post, I lived in a predominantly white neighborhood in which the students were all assigned to a school more than two miles away from our homes, even though another school was closer. But it had a higher concentration of black students and the district didn't want to send all those white kids there. So we were bused to the school that was much farther away, not for purposes of desegregation but to foster continued segregation based on the historically segregated housing patterns. None of the white parents complained about their kids having to go to school so far away from home.

The "forced busing" argument was invoked by the 1970s versions of "death panel" proponents and MAGA types who lie about immigrants being responsible for committing most of the crimes in the country. Busing was a remedy imposed ONLY after all else failed when school districts refused to desegregate their schools through simpler means. And busing plans were very limited and restricted. But anti-desegregation forces who'd been fighting integration all along ginned it up into something it wasn't, freaked out white parents and caused all manner of division and difficulties.

Unfortunately, Biden pandered to this sentiment. Harris gave him a chance to distance himself from it and he chose not to. That, in my view, was a big mistake, especially if the party wants to build support and enthusiasm of the African-American community.