I worked in construction in a rural ski area. Many of the construction people came from the big city for the work, but there were no blacks among them. My theory? Big cities are good for ‘shopping,’ safe, great government-dependency distribution centers. Once in a great while we’d get a construction clean-up crew in, up from the city. There was a lot of fear in that group - fear of the dogs on the site, fear of the weather, discomfort with the tasks.
This article is hooey. ‘Trade unions keep blacks out.” whine, waaaah. So tired of the whining and complaining.
My dad once worked for a company in a rural Pennsylvania county. They did contract work for the Federal Government. Thus they were always under the microscope for diversity hiring.
They tried and tried and tried to hire black people. Frankly none of them wanted to venture out there from the city. Lots of reasons you mentioned, but basically they did not feel very comfortable out there.
They did hire one black secretary. After giving her many, many chances they had to let her go because she could never answer the bell on Monday mornings after her hard weekend partying routine.
It used to be that a lot of the construction labor work was done by people in the neighborhood, where it was taking place.
Guys would stop by to work as diggers, or helpers, or clean-up crew and such, but the black pride movement killed that in black neighborhoods, they don’t want that work, and haven’t for decades.
Agree. For all the urban bluster, one coyote heard from a distance is enough to freak them right out.