For example, from an editorial in 1957;
"“The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes–the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.”"
Interesting the article says the propieter, a Mr Buckley, and the likely author of the above comments, remains the propieter today. One has to wonder how much the American Right has really changed?
I would only have one caveat, which is whether the American Renaissance being fast with its facts (its general world view can be summed up by an article trying to justify slavery by saying the slaves actually quite enjoyed it)?
Another view of the US Right can be seen from the comments on Brink Lindsey's blog wishing a Happy Birthday to Mr Churchill. Of course many on the Right in both the US and the UK have never liked Winston Churchill -- for them the best course of action would have been to sue for peace with Hitler in order to protect the British Empire (see John Charmley's 'The End of Glory'). Still to see it so openly expressed is quite staggering.
posted by Matthew @ 12/03/2002 05:32:00 PM
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