Wilfred (Bill) McClay
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first heard Jul 2026
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And that's an important moral conversation.
I don't think it really applies to what we ought to be teaching young people and incorporating in the advanced placement history exam in this country.
No, I don't.
I mean, I think that's kind of, again, that's a very empty abstraction, I think.
And look, I know people, I knew people, I know people who felt the same way about Obama's presidency.
They're very different people, not the same people.
And, you know, there is part of citizenship there.
This may come to a real fundamental difference between us, but I think part of citizenship is learning to live with results that you don't like.
You maybe even abhor, but that your abhorrence of the outcomes of particular elections
doesn't justify saying, well, to hell with that.
I'm no longer in the authority of that.
This is why January 6th, in case you're thinking of going there, was such an abomination.
But there's a concept that I think is lost today.
And I often refer people back to Richard Hofstadter, the great American historian at Columbia.
In 1968, when the bust occurred...
So he gave this wonderful speech, which I think is still applicable today, in which he says that democracy demands certain kinds of virtues, and one of them is the recognition of a loyal opposition.
Well, I think I can point to my experiences.
I've lectured about the book in urban settings in New York and Chicago and elsewhere.
And I think a lot of Black students are drawn very much to what I've written.
But I take exception to this notion that I only talk about white men and
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