By LaKeshia N. Myers

Dr. LaKeshia N. Myers

When Maryland’s Wes Moore became governor, Black folks across the nation celebrated. Here was a Black man who understood the struggle, who had walked in our shoes, who would surely be an ally in the fight for justice. But this month, Governor Moore showed us that being Black doesn’t automatically make you an advocate for Black liberation. His veto of a bill that would have required the state of Maryland to define the economic harms of chattel slavery and recommend remedies, dealt a blow to reparations supporters who counted on the nation’s only Black governor to be an ally.

To be clear, this wasn’t radical legislation demanding immediate cash payments. This was a study bill – a modest first step to examine the damage done by centuries of slaver

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