{"id":540448,"date":"2023-01-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fast-rising-dem-star-wes-moore-to-be-inaugurated-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:00:00","slug":"fast-rising-dem-star-wes-moore-to-be-inaugurated-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fast-rising-dem-star-wes-moore-to-be-inaugurated-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fast-rising Dem star Wes Moore to be inaugurated Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40f9ab49b4d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40f9ab49b4d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fast-rising-dem-star-wes-moore-to-be-inaugurated-wednesday\/#Fast-rising_Dem_star_Wes_Moore_to_be_inaugurated_Wednesday\" >Fast-rising Dem star Wes Moore to be inaugurated Wednesday<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fast-rising_Dem_star_Wes_Moore_to_be_inaugurated_Wednesday\"><\/span>Fast-rising Dem star Wes Moore to be inaugurated Wednesday<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/AP23017675621250.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of the fastest-rising stars in the Democratic Party will be sworn in on Wednesday when Wes Moore is inaugurated as the new governor of Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will be a historic moment when Moore takes the oath of office: He\u2019ll be the first Black governor of Maryland, and only the third Black person elected to a governorship in U.S. history. He\u2019ll be the only sitting Black governor in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Moore, who is 44 and has two children, said history wasn\u2019t at the forefront of his mind during his successful campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was something I always recognized because I know the \u2026 very complex racial history of the state, but at the same time, I knew that that wasn\u2019t why I was going to win,\u201d he said in an interview with The Hill. \u201cI wasn\u2019t running to make history. I was running because I knew that there was an urgency in the challenges that we\u2019re looking to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of Democrats will be wondering if another office will be in store for Moore some day: the presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Moore and his office push off such suggestions. He\u2019ll be laser-focused on Maryland for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Moore\u00a0has been clear that this is going to be Maryland\u2019s decade,\u201d a senior campaign advisor told The Hill in a statement. \u201cHe\u2019s focused on the mission at hand in Maryland to leave no one behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s dedication to public service arose after a difficult childhood.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>He was only three years old when his father died, and it wasn\u2019t until he was 14 that his mom was able to work one job instead of multiple to support him and his siblings.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI learned early and, unfortunately, repetitively in my life about urgency and there is not this inevitableness of life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But that sense of urgency is what pushed him to run for governor. He wanted to find a way to build safer and healthier communities.<\/p>\n<p>That includes things like tackling issues that affect Marylanders most, like the economy and crime, but also environmental injustices, securing the right to abortion and addressing the racial wealth gap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe argument that we\u2019re making to the state is we\u2019ve got to actually address this together,\u201d Moore said. \u201cWe\u2019re going all around the state and reminding the state how all these issues impact them. \u2026 It\u2019s urban, rural and suburban parts of the state that have got to be part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite deep political polarization, Moore\u2019s message did resonate with voters during the midterms. He beat out a crowded primary field of eight competitors before the election and secured nearly 65 percent of the vote to defeat Donald Trump-backed candidate Dan Cox in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This, coupled with his history as a veteran, philanthropist and author, has pushed the rumor mill into overdrive as some wonder about potential White House ambitions. But Moore and his staff wave the idea off at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Though Moore and his staff wave off White House rumors at this time,\u00a0he told Bloomberg he\u2019s \u201chumbled\u201d by the inquiries into his larger political ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he could be a strong contender for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran who served in Afghanistan, Moore comes from a family of immigrants. Despite being a\u00a0Democrat, he earned an endorsement from the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police while campaigning, as well as major celebrities like Oprah Winfrey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He\u2019s been open about his past \u2014 including a brush with the law as a young child \u2014 and he\u2019s not afraid to discuss the impact of racially-targeted violence, which has grown over recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Like many Black Americans, Moore and his family have been directly impacted by white violence \u2014 and it almost led to him never having the chance to run for Maryland governor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s great-grandparents were Jamaican immigrants who settled in South Carolina when they came to the U.S. But the Ku Klux Klan forced them back to their home country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMy great-grandfather was a vocal minister, and eventually he started getting threats, and the threats turned into violent threats,\u201d Moore told The Hill. \u201cHe picked up the family in the middle of the night and they left not just the town, they left the country and headed to Jamaica. And for much of my family who left, they always pledged to never come back to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Moore\u2019s grandfather did come back. The Rev. James Thomas attended a historically Black college to study theology and became the first Black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church. After Moore\u2019s father died, Thomas helped raise Moore and his sisters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Though Thomas died in 2005 when Moore was serving in Afghanistan as captain of the 82nd Airborne Division, he remains an inspiration to Moore.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think about him because when he became a minister, the same threats that were coming to my great-grandfather, started coming for my grandpa,\u201d said Moore. \u201cAnd he stayed. He always said this country would be incomplete without him. And he helped raise his grandchildren in the same small home in the Bronx where he raised his children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The successes Black Americans have seen over the last year are not lost on Moore.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries\u2019s historic election as the first African American to lead a party in Congress, this is a moment of beauty in the nation, Moore said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that\u2019s really powerful in this moment is that the country is realizing and continuing to see that inclusion and excellence isn\u2019t a choice,\u201d he said. \u201c[Voters] are going for people who are eminently qualified and going for people who are representing the beautiful diversity of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Moore, who will be inaugurated just two days after the nation celebrates the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., said the appointments and elections of highly qualified Black candidates is only the beginning step toward a more racially just society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t look at January 18 as the victory,\u201d said Moore. \u201cI look at January 18 as the opportunity. What Dr. King was saying wasn\u2019t just about \u2018oh, I want to make sure that we have people who can make history first.\u2019 That wasn\u2019t that wasn\u2019t his aspiration, that wasn\u2019t his goal. It was, are we going to make sure that in the moment where we had the opportunity to lead, did we do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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