Open Letter to Governor Deval L. Patrick Regarding Your Performance and the Black Community

June 9, 2009

Honorable Deval L. Patrick
Governor
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The State House, Room 360
Boston, Massachusetts 02133

Dear Governor Patrick,

I write this open letter to you with a profound sense of disappointment. I had hoped that someone else would have stepped forward as a voice of conscience and reason to initiate a public conversation and debate regarding your performance as the first Black governor of the state. I write with considerable reluctance because I neither need nor seek the