Jasmine Vaughn-Hall, Andre Lamar and Nicolette White, York Daily Record
Published
8:18 pm UTC May. 10, 2021
Rob Cintron, 38, of Magnolia, is Puerto Rican and Black. Cintron said he worked at a construction job for three years and would hear racial slurs from white co-workers.Andre Lamar
They referred to him as a 33.
A few months into a construction job, Rob Cintron said he was working on a house with his crew chief and a younger co-worker, who were both white. The crew chief would giggle after repeating an unusual phrase around Cintron.
“He’d say, ‘Yeah, them 33s.’ It just sounded suspect. I felt like he kept saying it around me like it was a secret,” said Cintron, of Magnolia, Delaware. The supervisor would casually drop “33s” into a sentence that was directed at his white, younger co-worker.