Maryland Governor Wes Moore and the Politics of Reparations

(WIB) – Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, recently caused a stir in the state’s reparations movement. He vetoed a bill that would have assessed the harms of slavery and Jim Crow and proposed various remedies. The measure had been championed by the state legislature and the Legislative Black Caucus, and there is now talk of overriding his veto.

However, Maryland’s Black political leadership may be overlooking an alternative strategy to address the politics of reparations. It draws inspiration from how America handled the rebuilding of Europe and Japan after World War II. And Moore, as the nation’s only sitting Black governor, can reframe the issue’s politics and enhance Black community self-governance. He can initiate a summit to establish a development bank for the descendants of slave