How Important Is It To Find Your Community in Business?

There are moments in life where collectively we remember precisely where we were or what we were doing at that exact time.  For my parents' generation, those defining moments were either the assassination of JFK or MLK. But for me, I knew on election day 2008, I knew that we would define my generation by two events as well - the 9/11 terror attacks and the election of Barack Obama, the first African American president.

Election Night 2008

I can still see the television, feel the chair beneath me, and hear the loud roar of the neighborhood when President Obama won.  Everyone came outside. Everyone was excited, happy, and hopeful.

At that time, the election of President Obama felt like the United States had turned a corner. America was finally ready to expand its promise of We, the People to all of us, not just the white majority. Now everyone would have the opportunity to gain full membership into the great American experiment. No career was off limits. No door was impenetrably closed.  

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