Michael Blake: “I created the My Brother's Keeper program, the only one in…”

“And too often we allow the haters, quite frankly, to try to define you by when you're not successful. I want people to define me by what I did when I served. You know, I created the My Brother's Keeper program, the only one in the US that exists right now for us helping black and brown kids to go to school and graduate from school. We co led diversity in medicine to make sure more black and brown doctors were able to get funding for those programs.” (30:40–30:48)

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