Could a Black female business leader be as messy as Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk? The answer is obvious.

In middle school, my mom had me dress up in my Sunday best for a Saturday morning summer camp interview. I wore my lilac-colored Easter dress, a purple cardigan, and my hair was primped and pressed to perfection. I brought my “portfolio” (aka a blue three-ring binder where my dad kept all my report cards, perfect attendance awards, and other certificates of merit), and I answered all of the questions as politely as a 10-year-old could.

Granted, it was a camp for “leaders and scholars” led by a local private college (which would . . .