The answer, if for some a subliminal yes, also has a major caveat. The established black agents all have white clients, and they are business people who would smash just about anyone, regardless of race, on behalf of their writers. Black agents do not practice apartheid agenting. That doesn't mean that they aren't mindful of special problems and contradictions. Black agents say they are often overwhelmed with unsolicited manuscripts from African-Americans who think a black agent would be more receptive than a white one.
Black agents welcome more black colleagues to share the load.
On the other hand, it is not uncommon for a black agent to successfully establish a writer's career only to have the author switch to a white agent in the hopes of getting a better deal in a white industry. But the reverse has also been true also, she said. Stinson has gotten black clients who left white agents and has negotiated their biggest advances. But black writers, and therefore their agents, have problems beyond the shortage of black editors. Few African-American commercial writers can get that.