Building Racism – Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site – San Francisco

As the Aguilar brothers remember it, one afternoon last August the management had some workers cook up shrimp soup and fried fish for the Latino construction men who were picking up their checks. It was a strange show of hospitality from the bosses who’d otherwise made work on Hunters Point Hill miserable from day one.

Fausto, 39, and Gonzalo, 41, knew meetings were supposed to be for all workers, not just the ones with roots south of the Rio Grande. Having toiled in this country for nearly 20 years, with a general knowledge of labor laws and an encyclopedic recall of carpenters’ union rules, the Aguilars had been keeping close track of the growing tally of what they believed to be racist incidents at the job site.”*

*From: www.sfweekly.com
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