[Pelham]

BLM circa 1965.

Will William F Buckley have his statue pulled down by Woke Conservatives who discover this debate?

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

[Pelham]

Baldwin - Buckley Debate ping

[KC_Lion]

Thanks for the thread!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Bullish]

The legacy of W.F. Buckley will outlive any statue of him by far. He’s one of the founders of modern conservatism IMO.

[Spok]

This debate could no more happen today at a university than the virtues of Judaism could have been debated at a German university in the late 1930’s.

[A strike]

If they’re woke they’re not conservatives.

[DannyTN]

Here is an interesting site with the ratio of black Americans going back to 1660.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States

Apparently we got up to 21% back in 1770. Free blacks represented 8 to 13% of the black population (Free black chart is a little over half way down the page). So about 2% of total population and that drops slave labor below 20%.

Then as immigration and population grew we dropped down until it hit 9.7% total black population in 1930, before it started slowly growing again reaching 12.6% in 2010.

Blacks certainly contributed to American growth with some hard back breaking work. But I don't think 10% to 20% of the population did most of the work and supported the other 80 to 90%.

[Vendome]

I just watched “Hamilton” and was surprised at their fair treatment of his and his wife’s position on slavery

Recommend this remarkable Broadway play, which sums up Hamilton’s life artfully

[ek_hornbeck]

That was before Buckley went the politically correct route and started to purge and attack “controversial” conservatives.