James Baldwin And William F Buckley Debate

The stage was set for an epic confrontation that pitted baldwin s call for a moral revolution in race relations against buckley s unabashed elitism and implicit commitment to white supremacy.

James baldwin and william f buckley debate. Buckley at cambridge in 1965 around the age of five or six or seven sometimes far as our species has come we need to relearn how to use tools. Buckley might have used to describe this week s three free live streamed recreations of his 1965 televised debate with author civil rights activist james baldwin. Khalil muhammad and david frum are reimagining that debate for the 2020 march on washington film festival. Buckley founder of the conservative national review argued the opposing side.

Buckley in february 1965. The entire audience is white looking very much like william f. Redux in our headline above is just the sort of word that conservative intellectual william f. Buckley acknowledged certain injustices of racism and discrimination.

Speaking of words the question. Baldwin delivers his remarks slowly somehow seeming both passionate and cool like. Buckley debate by james doubek sep 20 2020 share tweet email james baldwin debated william f. Buckley in february 1965.

Buckley who sits in his famous reclined nonchalance that could and maybe should be read as arrogance. Khalil muhammad and david. It comes as a great shock james baldwin said in his epochal debate against william f.