When did Buckley make that racist comment? Yes, I was aware that he had racist tendencies. Once asked when black Africa should get independence, his answer and I quote was "when they stop eating each other." I remember wincing at it at the time, about 40 years ago. Buckley at the very least would get a lot of infraction points for hyperbole if he posted around here from those mods into infracting for that sort of thing.
At least Buckley was not a Jew hater to give him his due. The "intellectual" Right at once time tended to be both racist and Jew hating.