Wes Moore

The coded language, the dog whistle, when he was talking about sending the National Guard into Baltimore because we needed to deal with the savages.

It's this kind of mindset that was not at all shocking when I saw the tweet that came on board.

But I'm going to be honest.

When I think about when people are saying, how does it feel when you are disinvited?

I said, to be very honest, I'm good.

Like, I don't look to the president of the United States for validation.

I don't look to the president of the United States to make me feel worthy, right?

My God makes me feel worthy.

My family makes me feel worthy.

My community makes me feel worthy.

The president of the United States does not determine my worthiness.

You know, I do believe, I believe deeply that I am in no room because of some kind of social experiment.

You know, I'm in a room because the room was incomplete until I walked in the door.

But the real offense is not what he's doing to me.

It's what he's doing to our community.

The real offense is how we are watching unemployment rates

amongst Black women jump under him.

The real offense is how we're watching this attack on Black-owned businesses and our 8 programs and things that were actually allowing real pathways to long-term wealth for the Black community.

The real offense is how we're watching with the big, beautiful bill that he just signed that is now the largest upward consolidation of wealth that the world has ever seen while he's pulling away health care from people.

the real offense is why in the state of maryland when we had a president of the united states who said that he is going to ban books well i signed legislation in the state of maryland banning the banning of books so in maryland you cannot ban books yeah and so this is that's the thing that that i think that gets all of us is not just you know you can comment me