He is the third elected in the entire history of the United States.
It sounded trivial, but it was historic. Democrat Wes Moore has become Maryland’s first black governor and the only one in the country. His oath of office resulted from his landslide poll victory on November 8, making him the third African-American elected governor in United States history, after Deval Patrick in Massachusetts and David Paterson in New York.
You have to go back to 1871 to find two other African Americans who became governors, but in the case of Oscar Dunn and PBS Pinchback, it was by accident and for a short period of time that they served as acting governors.
Moore, 44, had long been an emerging figure in the Democratic Party. He already had three minutes of fame on stage at the convention that crowned Barack Obama as the presidential nominee in 2008, when he was simply “Captain Moore,” an Afghanistan veteran who was drafted after the 9/11 attacks. in this campaign by giving him his support, but also Joe Biden and even Oprah Winfrey, who made one of his books a bestseller after an interview with him.
“I know that with Wes More as your governor, Maryland will have its best days,” predicted the American television diva, who played an honorary role at her inauguration on Tuesday. Oprah says when she interviewed him she thought he was so brilliant that he became a good friend. “I always come out of our conversations with a new perspective, new ideas, a new way of looking at things and a dose of positive energy,” he said Tuesday.
With this support, Moore can boast a landslide 64.7% victory — double that of his Republican rival — in a country so divided that margins rarely exceed a few points. Maryland’s new governor seems to have borrowed a page from Obama’s improbable victory to make his trip everyone’s hope. “If you had watched a boy who had been handcuffed by the police at the age of eleven, who had seen his father die before his very eyes and whose mother had to work several part-time jobs because none of them paid to support her family, you would not believe this kid would be governor one day,’ he said excitedly.
He owes much of this to his mother, a native of Jamaica, who understood that he would soon end up in jail when she saw her son arrested for painting graffiti in the Bronx neighborhood they had moved to. His drastic prescription was to send him to a military academy, from which he initially tried to escape, only to emerge from years later as an admired captain in command of 800 cadets who believed him “Superman.” The war also gave him the slogan that he carried into his campaign: “leave no one behind”. His time at a New York investment bank, the credibility for voters to see him as a good manager. And his work as executive head of one of the country’s largest anti-poverty NGOs, Robin Hood, forces him to convince voters that this charismatic politician, writer and philanthropist has serious intentions to save the lives of the most unfortunate in the world. improve the world. cities as impoverished as Baltimore.
Source: La Verdad
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