Wilfred (Bill) McClay

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Radio Atlantic · American History as Rorschach Test · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, I give a lot of attention to Frederick Douglass, and Frederick Douglass is a fantastic role model.

He was, I mean, the quintessential loyal opposition, and his relationship with Lincoln, which I would have loved to have talked about more, but you know, you just can't do it all.

But somebody who was born into slavery, and his various autobiographical accounts, and

The way in which, for example, learning to read is so important in his development.

And I emphasize this about Richard Wright, too, and others.

And his... I could go on and on, but his emergence as a great orator, you know, and Martin Luther King, I give a lot of attention to him.

Of course, everybody does.

Well, I...

I try not to think in terms of fulfilling certain kinds of quotas, but I do look at people that are exemplary in various ways.

Look, I do talk about Eleanor Roosevelt.

I talk about Jane Addams.

There was no intent on my part to exclude women, but I also wasn't going to include women just because they were women.

Oh, gosh.

I'd say it's a free country.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I don't... You know, you touched earlier on something we should have talked a lot about, is that how do you teach love of country?

And that is...

That's a tough one.

I mean, the whole religious tradition that you and I both are parts of different ends of, you know, you shall love the Lord God with all your heart and your mind and so on and so forth.

How do you teach that?

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