GENERATION NEXT: CAPTAIN WES MOORE

Introducing the over achieving social justice CAPTAIN and possible presidential candidate for 2024!!!!
AGE: 30
JOB: Investment banker/former army captain
RELEVANCE: Because the only thing better than one black president is two

If “Wes,” as he’s known to friends, does not become the second black president, it’ll only be because he chose not to. His story is no less inspiring than his credentials are impeccable. In brief: gets kicked out of school and shipped off to military academy at 12, turns the beat around in under a decade, graduates Phi Beta Kappa from Hopkins, snags a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, does a tour of duty in Afghanistan, investment banks before winning a White House Fellowship.

Yeah. We said tour of duty.

Last month, Moore joined a a panel of veterans in testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the topic “Soldiers’ Stories From The Afghan War” (see video below). We suspect accounts like his may have informed Gates’ decision to remove General McKiernan yesterday — but that’s beside the point. As his Crains 40 Under 40 profile effuses: Moore served “10 months with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan. There, he helped revise a program to win over Taliban fighters, boosting its enrollment from 6 when he arrived to 500 by the time he left, and earning a promotion to captain.”

This brother believes in keeping his hand on the pulse of the people as well. The day that he won the Rhodes Scholarship, Captain Moore became aware of a black male from Baltimore who shared his name who was headed to prison. Though Moore was headed to Oxford, in the spirit of "EACH ONE REACH ONE" ,he connected with the brother in prison, and has maintained contact ever since. The mentorship provided by Moore will invariably impact the lives of others, in one way or another.
If the first black president heeds the counsel of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and creates a Council for men and boys, he’ll undoubtedly turn to Moore, no stranger to the White House (and an Alpha himself). In the meantime, the Moores are laying plans to use Elevate to catalyze a movement — answering BHO’s call to community service with a nationwide campaign. Their idea is to do for youth and service what, say, Diddy did with youth and voting in 2004.

Folks are hating on him so hard right now. There are those who doubt his sincerity and whether or not the brother is campaigning early. Just because that's some old craziness that they would do doesn't mean that others have that same spirit. Moore is about changing the status quo and the nay sayers can either get on board or keep it movin!

This YOUNG BLACK MAN is a total package who has the support and enouragement of a loving BLACK WOMAN. Therefore we give you. . .Moore for 2024.

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