How I Built Resilience: Live with Deval Patrick

Hey everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. This is where we've been talking with entrepreneurs about how to think creatively during this moment of economic instability. A few days ago we invited Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, to join us. Governor Patrick is now an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor to younger business leaders, and he recently wrote a deeply personal article about his own experiences. With racism. Um, Governor Patrick, one of the reasons why we really want to talk to you today, not only because I've interviewed you before in the past and you're just so thoughtful, but you also recently wrote an article um and you posted on Medium. Um it's called America's Awakening to What It Means to Be Black. Um and I just want to quote a couple of things that you you wrote on that piece. Um

We hear from the famous and the accomplished how their fame and accomplishment has not immunized them from the presumption of dangerousness by police. I gave up going to baseball or football games long ago because I got tired of having to overhear drunken fans at Fenway Park or Gillette Stadium. Shout out epithets at players on the field. You're right. Like every other black trial lawyer I know, you were a bl a trial lawyer.

I've been mistaken for a defendant awaiting trial. And directed elsewhere when I came to sit with other attorneys. The cut of my suit or the quality of my briefcase Never mattered. This is w I mean, I I read your your memoir.

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