Deval Patrick

71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton. He is the state's first African American governor and the second African American to be elected governor of any US state.

“I believe in integration ” - 11/16/2011

Transcript

I believe in integration. I believe in living an integrated life. I think it has made my life and our family's lives much richer and more interesting. But I think that at the time, at Milton, and maybe at many institutions like it, integration meant you coming from some other place and becoming entirely a part of that place, and leaving everything behind. Not contributing, just assimilating. And I understand that, but it's the point I was making earlier about how you feel like you are having to– that the price of acceptance is rejecting your past