200 years after Harriet Tubman’s birth, Md. finally gets a Black governor
The moment in the gym at Choptank Elementary School — a small brick building bound by the Chesapeake Bay and the Choptank River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore — was 200 years coming.
“It doesn’t matter what color he is,” said Tina Jones, 62, who is African American and voted for Moore. “I’m with the person who has heart. And he has heart, this man.” The wealth amassed by the plantation owners gave Maryland’s colonialists prominent standing in early American politics. The state now ranks asIt was the birthplace of Benjamin Banneker in 1731. Frederick Douglass in 1818. And Thurgood Marshall in 1908.
“There’s so much about Harriet Tubman, the underground railroad, her work as a spy, in the suffrage movement,” said William Jarmon, 79, who oversees the all-volunteerThe retired schoolteacher cast a ballot for Moore during early voting last week. He enjoyed the socializing he always does during election season, this year taking extra pleasure in his vote.That’s why Ariel Jenkins, 30, hopped in her car and drove to her polling station Tuesday around lunchtime.
The son of a Jamaican immigrant, who raised him as a single mother, Moore is a U.S. Army veteran, former investment banker, Johns Hopkins University football player and graduate, Rhodes scholar, and White House fellow who once led the Robinhood Foundation, the country’s largest poverty-fighting nonprofit.“It’s powerful for us, that he’s someone who looks like me,” said Wyrita Myster, 55. “That gives us optimism. But what’s most important is that he protects democracy.
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