Black Political Zone

The Chicago Defender reported today on Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, Deval Patrick, and how he thinks about race in his campaign. They quote Patrick as saying:

"I know and knew before I started this that win or lose, I would have to look myself in the mirror," Patrick says in an interview with the NNPA News Service. "And so I wanted to be sure that I was doing this in a way that respected my own fundamental integrity. And that means all of the dimensions of who I am. I'm a Black man. I'm proud of that. I'm also a father and a husband of 20-plus years and have had times when we were trying to pay the rent and the heat in the same month just like a whole lot of other people."

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