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Black truckers shut down multi-million-dollar UCSF job site for 4.5 hours


Black truckers shut down multi-million-dollar UCSF job site for 4.5 hours
May 13, 2021
The UCSF job site at Mariposa and Illinois has only one way in or out, so it was easy for five Black-owned big rigs to block it for 4.5 hours! Here is Michael Gregory’s HVYW8 Trucking rig, one of several vehicles in his fleet. You don’t acquire rigs like these without knowing your business as well or better than anyone. Blacks in construction excel, so they know that racism is the only excuse for locking them out, for fearing their competition, so it’s only fair: You lock us out; we shut you down. This shutdown prompted the vice president of Clark Construction to call the Black truckers from Washington, D.C., with the only excuse he could think of, “We didn’t know you all were here.” The Black community has lost billions in earnings since the lockout began in 1998. The lockout of Blacks from construction is largely responsible for driving most of San Francisco’s Black popul ....

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