Supporters of US President Donald Trump fight with riot police outside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Leonard Moore has long taught popular courses on American history at McGill University. His retirement lecture is full of insight — and worries — about the deep polarization in the U.S. He argues history has its lessons, but it’s still an open question whether they’ll be learned.
It was an emotional farewell to teaching, featuring insights and anxieties about where the United States may be headed, and was attended by members of the public and friends, family and generations of former students.
My biggest fear is that Trump will do what he evidently wanted to do very often during his first presidency and that is invoke the Insurrection Act, which will allow martial law in the United States. On and on across the board, this was a period of upheaval where people were asking basic questions and the place of pluralism in American society. And during the civil rights movement, after the civil rights movement, the opposition to that idea remained powerful and strong, and it is at the root of the extremism that we are seeing today in American politics…A day after Donald Trump took office on Jan. 21, 2017, protests were held throughout the United States.
But what I would like to do is let you hear the original version by Theodore Parker, the abolitionist, in something he wrote in 1853: The thing I like about it is that it puts qualifications. It doesn't make it seem like: well, you just have to wait around and justice will happen when the arc of the moral universe gets done bending. Parker and countless other Americans, white and Black, tried to bend that arc in an era before the Civil War, and the cost of all of that was enormous.
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