Joshua is not a strawman. He is the five year old son of the Plaintiff in Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education.

He is not being punished by being denied one of the empty seats (yes, there were seats available) in the school down the street and being forced to spend three hours a day on a school bus to get to a school across town? What would you call it, Karl—an opportunity?

Forced busing will go down in history as one of the biggest failures ever championed by liberals. It has accomplished little other than to assuage the guilt of white liberals for the failure of the states to provide equal educational opportunities to all children.