You have a chance to elect a Democrat for president and a democratic Senate. A democratic Senate will push through liberal appointments to the Supreme Court and circuit courts. Those judges will rule favorably on cases that affect you.
Court appointments affect your life for a generation, so there I just gave you a reason to vote and an example of something that affects black people.
As far as the construction demographics go i see plenty of blacks doing the government run construction here in Atlanta and Memphis. I dont know where you are so i cant speak on your view. I can offer some perspective on why latinos presence in construction in general is increasing and its not the governments fault. My dad ran his own contracting business pretty much my entire life so i was always out with him learning the trade. He made it a point that when he hired more workers he looked to hire black men from the areas he worked in (the hood). They didnt know shyt in the beginning but gradually they would pick up enough experience so that if they wanted they could go out on their own and pick up a maintenance supervisor job, city construction position, or start their own contracting business, they could. Quite a few did land those type of positions and it turned into more business for my dad. But anyway my point is that while i was out there i saw the crews of the other contractors in the area and they did not use blacks, they were using Mexicans. Mind you these were crews run by a black owner. So while these guys were raking in more money than us because they werent paying their crew shyt they also didnt keep that knowledge in the community. Those Mexicans went on to work other construction jobs and get into leadership roles where now they are able to put their own people on. The white crews had mexicans too but they also kept a stable of white guys they were showing the ropes to. Now i dont hire anyone to do work for me unless they are black and use a black crew.
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