Black Magic has emboldened his every step since, leading him to wonder: Was he alone in this discovery? Were there others who felt the same? Accounting for this turnaround, Chad believes, was something he calls Black Magic, namely resilience, creativity, and confidence forged in his experience navigating America as a Black man. Chad began to land more exciting projects. He reverted to the methods he learned at the dinner table, or at the Black Baptist church where he’d been raised, or at the concrete basketball courts, barbershops, and summertime cookouts. He changed his wardrobe, his behavior, his speech-everything that connected him with his Black identity.Īnd while he finally felt included, he felt awful. Each meeting was drenched in white slang and the privileged talk of international travel or folk concerts in San Francisco, which led Chad to believe he needed to emulate whiteness to be successful. When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly concluded that to be successful at work meant playing a certain social game. It felt like a death sentence for my career.” “I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a white guy. A “daring, urgent, and transformative” (Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead) exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.
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