Wes Moore

You know, my answer to the president is this.

I'm asking you nicely, Mr. President, please do your job and please stop looking at all of us to have to cover up for the type of inaction that we are seeing from this White House.

Well, I'm curious which ones they're going to send out.

The ones in the Epstein files?

Or the ones who have side businesses and side hustles?

Or the ones who say that if you miss a social security check, that it's because you're a grifter?

I'm really curious which ones they're going to send out, and I'm looking forward.

I'll just be eating my popcorn watching.

I'm hardly ever speechless, but this is a time where it's difficult to have a response to that when the way you are addressing Black History Month is just talking about the individual black friends that you have.

Black History Month is not about an individual sports hero.

Black history is about the foundation of America.

It's about the fact that this country's history would be incomplete if we don't fully embrace the contributions that black Americans have made, oftentimes to a country that never showed them the same respect back, but people who love this country and were willing to fight for the hope of it.

Black history is not something about talking about the friendships that you have.

It is truly about understanding that this nation is a nation that is unique, diverse, deeply uneven in its history, but actually in the unevenness is actually where the glory lives.

And I think about this in context of the president talking about things like banning books and banning our history, where

they talk about this idea that we want to ban history or ban books because we don't want people to feel uncomfortable.

And that's not it at all.

That they're trying to ban history because they don't want people to understand their power.

The reason that I walk into every single room and know that I belong in that room is because I know my history.

I know how people had to fight in order for me to be here and I know the shoulders that I stand on.