The only black banker I can think of is Stanley O'Neal, whose father was a cotton farmer and then a line worker at General Motors:
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On December 2, 2002, Stanley O'Neal became chief executive officer (CEO) of Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc. He is the first African American to head a major Wall Street brokerage firm... Fortune magazine named him the most powerful African-American executive...
The grandson of a former slave, Earnest Stanley O'Neal, born in 1951, was the oldest of four siblings, three boys and a girl. The O'Neal family lived in Wedowee, Alabama, a town of less than 1000 people, 85 miles from Birmingham. However, Stanley was born in Roanoke, Alabama, since hospitals nearer to his home did not admit African Americans. He grew up surrounded by a large, close-knit, extended family, in a home that had neither an automobile nor indoor plumbing. His father was a farmer and his mother cleaned houses to help support the family. O'Neal attended a one-room school that was heated with a wood stove. He and his siblings worked the corn and cotton fields of his grandfather's subsistence farm and O'Neal delivered and sold newspapers.
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Rasta wrote:
I'm not into making some big race point, just interested, and thought someone here might know.
Please feel free to make whatever point you want. The profession strikes me as predominantly a nasty little white enclave, deserving of a damn good dose of criticism on race grounds. A warm welcome to the site.
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