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Wes Moore: “My grandfather became the first black minister in the…”

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Why is patriotism so…WEIRD? With Governor Wes Moore

Published | Video Starts at 04:56

But I said my grandfather, in all of his humility, was like, this country would be incomplete without me. So he came back to this country, he became a minister like his father. And when he became. He My grandfather became the first black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church. And when he became a minister, the same threats that were coming to his father started coming to him, but he stuck. (04:56–05:00)

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