re: #224 HappyWarrior

I just hate the revisionism of him into this intellectual. He wasn’t a stupid man obviously but he was no where near the deep thinker he and his admirers think he is. Anyone who went to their grave thinking McCarthy was right had problems IMO.

Buckley was racist to the core. Every bit the racist Goerge Wallace, Ronald Reagan, David Duke and Robert Spencer are. Still remember his 1955 editorial which went…

“We offer the following on the crisis in the Senate and the South: In the Deep South the Negroes are, by comparison with the Whites, retarded” (‘unadvanced’ the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People might put it) … Leadership in the South, then quite properly rests in White hands. Upon the White population this fact imposes moral obligations of paternalism, patience, protection, devotion, and sacrifice.” The editorial added that “the attempt to hand over to the Negro the raw political power with which to alter it is hardly a solution. It is a call to upheaval, which ensues when reality and unbridled abstractions meet head-on.”

My Mother was born and raised in South Carolina. She DETESTED segregation and believed it was the ultimate evil. She HATED Buckley and I remember her saying that Buckley was the kind of freak who would pop a tent in his pants when he watched “Birth Of A Nation”…