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Wes Moore: “Racism is a system that allows racial wealth gaps to exist.”

Featuring: Wes Moore, Democratic | Governor of Maryland

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Published May 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 42:49

… if I move to China tomorrow and I stay there for the next 40 years, I would still never be considered Chinese. Is this a racist country, do you think? Racism is a system that allows racial wealth gaps to exist. Racism is a system that allows generation of people to be able to attend schools that are not preparing them from college or careers. (42:49–42:55)

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Asserts that systemic racism contributes to racial wealth disparities.

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“I have to do something every year that people in Washington are seemingly incapable of doing is I balance budgets.”
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“I balance budgets.”
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“We raised a minimum wage.”
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“We raised a minimum wage because I don't think that people should be working multiple jobs and still living at or below a poverty line.”
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“We gave the middle class a tax cut.”
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“We made sure we had things like family and paid family and paid medical for our people.”
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“We've added over 55,000 new businesses in Maryland since I become the governor.”
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“We've added over 55,000 new businesses in Maryland since I become the governor.”
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“I pardoned over 175,000 misdemeanor cannabis convictions in the stroke of a pen.”
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“In Maryland it's unique because we don't have the same luxury of a California or Virginia in some cases where you go to the people with it.”
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“This is a decision that exclusively has to be done by the members of the Maryland General Assembly.”
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“I'm never going to stop fighting for our democracy, particularly when I see our democracy completely under attack.”
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“We've now provided $300 million of relief to our people, utility relief.”
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“We've now provided, you know, $300 million of relief to our people, utility relief.”
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“We just signed a housing package that's going to now build more housing around transit or development.”
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“We just signed a housing package that's going to now build more housing around transit or development.”
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“The most transformational housing bill that this state has gotten done in years.”
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“We are watching the greatest assault on black voter representation around the country that we have seen in generations.”
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“The Voting Rights act was one of the most important pieces of the entire civil rights movement.”
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“That has now been struck down.”
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“I was the first black Rhodes Scholar in the history of [Johns Hopkins University].”
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“I graduated from a two-year college and I still went on to become a Rhodes Scholar.”
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“My mother didn't get her first job that gave her benefits until I was 14 years old.”
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“I joined the army when I was 17.”
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“The Maryland flag, our beautiful flag, a flag I love, but it is a contradiction. It is literally a flag that has a Union symbol and a…”
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“The bloodiest battles of the Civil War were not fought in Louisiana or Tennessee or Alabama. They were fought in Maryland.”
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“I think this country was born out of flaws.”
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“The origins of the United States of America was a beautiful idea that was stitched together by flawed people.”
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“This country has a healing and a growing power that still makes it the greatest experiment in the history of the world.”
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“I think that racism is part of an inherent culture fabric of this country.”
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“I think Bibi Netanyahu has committed war crimes.”
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“He's annexed and taken over, you know, 10% of Lebanon.”
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“We're dealing with such a rise in anti Semitism, anti Islamophobia, anti black.”
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