George Nichols III, the president of the American College of Financial Services, says the school should play a role in dealing with racial injustice.
Nichols — who has been marketing director for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kentucky, the Kentucky insurance commissioner, the president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and an executive vice president at New York Life Insurance Company — talked about his vision for the school's role in a blog entry.
Nichols wrote the article in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer.
"You hear the stories of black men and women navigating poverty inside America's densest projects; the malnutrition, the financial stress, the entrenched inequalities in our system that eventually boil over," Nichols write. "They become fearful of the cops, of creditors, even of each other while fighting on the streets for survival…. I lived this life as a kid in the segregated South — and five decades have not solved these injustices."
Resources
- A copy of Nichols' article is available here.
- An article about the American Council of Life Insurers' role in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce opportunity equality effort is available here.
The American College is the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based school that runs the Chartered Life Underwriter professional designation program.
