Comments on: William F. Buckley and Civil Rights http://www.poligazette.com/2008/06/30/william-f-buckley-and-civil-rights/ News and Analysis from Different Moderate Perspectives Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:55:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Michael Merritt http://www.poligazette.com/2008/06/30/william-f-buckley-and-civil-rights/#comment-59767 Michael Merritt Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:21:22 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/06/30/william-f-buckley-and-civil-rights/#comment-59767 “We frown on any effort of the Negroes to attain social equality by bending the instrument of the state to their purposes.” If he's talking about using the state to achieve civil rights, I would remind that it took constitutional amendments to declare these rights.  If society was allowed to take its course, they might never have had freedom. Of course, if it's affirmative action he's talking about, I can agree with him there, to an extent. “We frown on any effort of the Negroes to attain social equality by bending the instrument of the state to their purposes.”

If he’s talking about using the state to achieve civil rights, I would remind that it took constitutional amendments to declare these rights.  If society was allowed to take its course, they might never have had freedom.

Of course, if it’s affirmative action he’s talking about, I can agree with him there, to an extent.

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