It's more like - middle class whites were to be sacrificed so that upper class whites could buy time to be insulated from the violent menace of the ghettos.
Look up the judge who instituted forced busing in South Boston ( which used to be lower-middle-class Irish in the 1970s ). He was a wealthy patrician from a wealthy all-white small town in Massachusetts.
It's more like - middle class whites were to be sacrificed so that upper class whites could buy time to be insulated from the violent menace of the ghettos.
Look up the judge who instituted forced busing in South Boston ( which used to be lower-middle-class Irish in the 1970s ). He was a wealthy patrician from a wealthy all-white small town in Massachusetts.