Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 02/04/2026 2:34:27 PM PST by Eleutheria5
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—Maryland governor Wes Moore, who is widely expected to seek the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, has a powerful family story of racial injustice that he repeatedly tells during public speeches: His grandfather, as a small boy, fled 1920s Charleston with his family in the dead of night after his father—a prominent black minister and Moore’s great-grandfather—angered the Ku Klux Klan with sermons condemning racism. Narrowly escaping a lynching, the family took refuge in Jamaica. But Moore’s grandfather, just six years old at the time, vowed to return to America, where he eventually raised a grandson who made history in 2022 by becoming Maryland’s first black governor.
It’s a story straight out of Hollywood, and it was a central feature of Moore’s 2022 campaign stump speech, in which he described a version of American patriotism wherein “loving your country does not mean lying about its history.” Moore first told the tale of his exiled grandfather in a 2014 memoir and has since retold it countless times as he seeks to reclaim patriotism for the Democratic Party and to contextualize his own unlikely rise to power.
But there’s a problem with Moore’s story: It’s flatly contradicted by historical records and is almost certainly false.
Moore’s great-grandfather on his mother’s side, the Rev. Josiah Johnson Thomas, did preach in the 1920s at a church in Pineville, S.C., about 65 miles north of Charleston. But historical records housed at the archives of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina undercut the three main elements of Moore’s story...
.....
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.substack.com ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
Some people lie.
Some people steal.
Some people do both.
Don’t tell me, Little Wesley’s Great-Grandpa was Jussie Smollett.
Hey, Wes. If the KKK truly chased him out in the 1920s - and this isn’t just you making s__t up to have a story for a presidential run - it was your beloved Democrats who were doing it.
Its an iron rule - the bigger, more powerful, more bloated, and more ideological government gets - the more psychopaths are attracted to politics.
“CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—Maryland governor Wes Moore, who is widely expected to seek the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, has a powerful family story of racial injustice that he repeatedly tells during public speeches”. Me too, Wes, I’m Caucasian.
If West Virginia was involved could have been Senator Robert “Sheets” Byrd’s Klan.
So his story is that the democrats chased his family out of South Carolina?
Interesting. Well, the history of the preacher, that is.
Moore should have expected that remark to be fact checked.
It’s often so easy to do these days on the Net, that is, if you really want the answers.
He probably thought since he’s a Democrat and black too, his word would be taken at face value to be accurate.
Perhaps he studied at the Oprah Winfrey School of Perpetual Victimhood. One of the richest women in the nation, endlessly ungrateful.
When your life history is too boring for your taste, just make it up.
This man takes Joe Biden’s life as a template.
Totally fabricated.
Sure, Jan.
Irish, Jewish, Ukrainians, Greeks, Armenians, etc., all suffered at somebody or other’s hands, sometimes repeatedly. BFD. You pick yourself up. Dust yourself off, and start all over again. Both Rudyard Kipling and Nat King Cole concur. Just do what you can to defend yourself, if you must and can, from further horrors.
Time travel. Jussie’s here from the past. Back then, he was able to sire Wes Moore’s grampa. Since then, he swore “never again,” so now he’s gay.
Wessie Moore
this guy! He lies when it would be easier to tell the truth ( or just shut up)
Another truth bender that comes full circle to create a donut hole.
Wes has a solid history of telling lies.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.