Another time capsule.
Ta-Nehisi Coates posts a great video of James Baldwin and William F. Buckley debating at Cambridge.
Coates' post thoughtfully illustrates how conservatives like WFB, see racism primarily through the prism of maintaining a rhetorical advantage—not that real people's lives are diminished or destroyed by discrimination and hatred.
When I was a kid, I often watched Buckley's show to see how he turned conceptual defeats into rhetorical victories—the head cocked back, the eyebrows arched with malice—he was a great villain to watch, but a villain nevertheless.
Also...
Baldwin is brilliant.
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