Wall Street and the Fear of a Black Quarterback

To understand the financial services industry’s problems with race, just look at the NFL

Marlon Weems
AfroSapiophile
Published in
8 min readDec 30, 2022

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Last summer, I wrote about starting an investment firm in Arkansas in the mid-nineties. I wrote about the racism I faced. Without question, I had many successes. My company was the state’s first — and possibly the last — black-owned…

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Marlon Weems
AfroSapiophile

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