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It is August and Bloomberg Markets magazine they are out with a special

issue. It is focused on diversity where black men and women they share their

experience on Wall Street there's no universal experience but their stories

reflect what it's like and what it means to be just one of a handful of black people in

finance. Bloomberg Radio and Television Correspondence Chinali Bassick contributed

to the Bloomberg markets issue and brings us more in this special report.

It's hard to define the Black experience on Wall Street,

partially because there are so few people of color in the C-suite

and on trading floors across the industry.

At the beginning of this year,

there were more than 80 top executives

at the six biggest U.S. banks, and only one was black.

We interviewed people across the industry.

Carla Harris, who has since become one of the most senior women at Morgan Stanley, was one of the few people of color at the firm in the 80s.

Excellence looked like six white men at the top, right? That wasn't strange at all. That's what you saw at IBM, that's what you saw at GM, that's what you saw at Morgan Stanley,

Gomez-Sacs, you pick it, right? So you knew that if you wanted to play on this playing field that was what you were you were going to have to be comfortable in some cases being the only and and being the first so that was not intimidating to me at all. That's just the way it was.

You know, I would say I had three strikes against me.

Here's what I said to myself as a first year and second year associate.

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