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.
Editorial in National Review in August of 1957. 
My point in making this thread was simply to demonstrate, via a list of quotes from prominent right-wing figures of the past, that the contemporary Tea Party, et al didn't emerge from any sort of historical vacuum.
Furthermore, if you notice the arguments made in the quotes by Goldwater, Wallace, and Reagan, they are literally the same arguments being made today by many Republicans and right-wing public figures, even if in different contexts.
Is this particularly surprising?
