Patrick Plays the “Race Card”
       "I'm proud of being a black man” Deval Patrick said in an interview with Channel 4 yesterday.
       Patrick said that voters who harbor worries about his race need to "get over it because, listen, this is who I am."
       "I know it's on people's minds and occasionally it comes up," Patrick told Keller.
       “I think it's a little bit of the code of that whole electability thing one hears. We have had so many obstacles, so much skepticism, about this campaign at the beginning."
       Yesterday Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly attended the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury -- a predominantly black congregation -- and Christopher F. Gabrieli attended a pig roast hosted by a state senator in Leominster.
       "So, for Tom Reilly coming into Twelfth Baptist Church is nothing strange," Rev. Michael E. Haynes , pastor emeritus of Twelfth Baptist and a former state representative from the area, said. "He's been coming in here over the years, serving as our attorney."
       Patrick told the Globe regarding hiring for administrative positions that "race ought to be a factor. And I think there's a right way to take that into account and a wrong way to take that into account." However, he would not elaborate for the Globe.