Wes Moore likes to say he comes “from a long line of preachers and teachers.”
But over a coffee recently in Ocean City, one particular preacher in his lineage came to mind: his grandfather.
His grandfather was the first on his mother’s side to be born in the U.S.
But his great-grandfather, a vocal minister, was run out of the country by threats from the Ku Klux Klan, resettling his family in Jamaica.
Years later, Moore’s grandfather would return – “He always said I was born here and no one has the right to take away my American-ness” – and become the first Black minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.
But despite a righteous life that revolved around giving back to others, his grandfather was unable to accumulate wealth, something that’s held in common by too many generations of Black Americans, Moore says.
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