Wes Moore: ‘Frustration,’ ‘Cynicism’ Among Black Voters Are Affecting Support for Biden

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MOORE: "Well, I think there's a frustration and a cynicism. And I think it's longstanding. You know, we have to remember — my grandfather was born in this country and when he was just a toddler, the Ku Klux Klan ran him out of — and my whole family out of this country. And I'm now standing here as his grandson, as the 63rd governor of the State of Maryland and only the third African-American ever elected governor in the history of this country. The reason I bring that up is because history does matter. And so when we look at the fact that in Maryland there's an eight-to-one racial wealth gap, that's not because one group is working eight times harder. When we're looking at drastic differences between unemployment rates, or how cannabis was used as a cudgel against black communities for so long in our nation's history, that's a reality. And so I think that the thing that the president is showing that, when you look at the president doing things like rescheduling cannabis from schedule 1 to schedule 3, having the largest pardon for cannabis convictions, having, you know, the largest growth in black-owned businesses for black men in 30 years, we now have a president who's actually doing something about these systemic challenges that we've been facing."