Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Anchor in asking yourself who you are, what you want, and what you’re willing to do to get it.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
“He’s protecting me, Trevor. From
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Instead I continued to pursue exploring and entering slightly forbidden worlds to learn for the sake of advancing Black people.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
PersonAl sacrifice
what we need is a class of Black people who have real values and can empathize with the broader community and who have the resources and space and freedom they need to affect real sustained change. That’s where I think I need to play.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
What we need
He calls this the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” which can slow us down when it means bosses give us fewer responsibilities with lower upside.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
I think that I understood the importance of doing my own research and creating my own perspectives on things and fitting other people’s information into that, versus starting with other people’s information and then figuring out
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Nobody used the tinny, nasally droning we sometimes forced to seem
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
The further I drift from those Morehouse days, the more firmly I believe I’ll never experience anything else again like them. As I lived them, those days felt ordinary. But they were anything but.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
We will never experience this again. HBCU grad
high achievement environments,