William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes
The central question is … whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally in which it does not predominate numerically. The sobering answer is Yes. The white community is so entitled because, for the time being, they are the more advanced race.
This is an important quotation because Buckley was the leading intellectual conservative of his day. And he held these racist views more than a decade after the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed. Buckley was an elitist with an Ivy League education, and he did believe that there was nothing inherent or permanent in the Southern Black inferiority, but there were few people of his educational level who had these racist beliefs. Not all conservatives of the time were as racist as Buckley. Even into the 21st century Conservative groups like the Tea Party had a strong but minority vestige of racism.
William F. Buckley Jr., Political Columnist and Author, Conservative party candidate for New York Governor 1957, Quoted in Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Fear of a Black President”, The Atlantic, September 2012
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William Frank Buckley Jr. was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator. In 1955, Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the late-20th century United States. Buckley hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line (1966–1999), the longest-running public affairs show in American television history with a single host, where he became known for his distinctive Mid-Atlantic idiolect and wide vocabulary.
