maybe you weren't around in 1977, but Biden absolutely opposed desegregation and worked with Jess Helms, who was openly racist, to oppose desegregation and bussing black school kids in major cities. Biden argued in the Senate that desegregation in schools would lead to desegregation in other parts of society like jobs. In fact, he admitted that as time went on, he would be considered just like George Wallace (the Alabama governor, not the modern day comedian)