Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
My takeaway is always that it was designed. And because it was designed, we can design something else. Because it was built, we can build something else.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
I sacrificed myself to affirm him.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
A response to Trauma that prioritizes belonging
I was bored and unsatisfied and desperately seeking purpose.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Their apathy felt personal.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
I learned what happens when you achieve something that you don’t really want or care about. To boil it down, you end up not doing as well and making yourself look bad in different ways. You end up going through heartache because you fight what you
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
can’t do versus what you want to do when they don’t line up. And I think that is a big downside of having to go through racial duality. You end up in situations when you have to choose between solidifying or debunking the world’s view of you or solidifying or debunking your own version of yourself. That leads to what I call “Ghost Chasing” or this
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Ghost Chasing
more palatable in white classrooms and later in corporate offices. No one shrunk himself. We were full there.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
being Emmett Till or Trayvon Martin or some other little memorialized Black boy. He’s protecting me for as long as he possibly can, before it’s out of his control,”