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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.

Governor Patrick, one of the reasons why we really wanted to talk to you today.

Not only because I've interviewed you before and the past, and you're just so thoughtful, but you also recently wrote an article and you posted on Medium.

It's called America's Awakening to what it means to be black.

I mean, I just want to quote a couple of things that you wrote in that piece.

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 write, like every other black trial lawyer I know you were a trial lawyer, I've been mistaken for a defendant awaiting trial and directed elsewhere when I came to sit with other attorneys near the bench.

The cut of my suit or the quality of my briefcase never mattered.

I mean, I read your memoir. This is one of the most personal things I've ever seen you write. Tell me about writing it.

Well, you know, we've all been, or at least so many of my friends have been and I have been contacted by our friends white and black and every other kind asking how we're doing.

You know, in the wake of the of the videotape killing of George Floyd and of the shooting of of Ahmad Arbery and that astonishing Central Park video of Amy Cooper reacting to being told to leisure dog.

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