But the reality is that black americans are being left out of infrastructure opportunities. 99.9% of the well paid construction and road repair jobs are going to connected white men. Look around you and you will plainly see this is true. It's not just my opinion. Black men are not part of the good ole boy network. On the outside looking in. How do we change that. Maybe by mandating tax payer projects give opportunities to minorities who have been frozen out for many many decades. The wealth gap just keeps getting larger and larger. Lip service wont do anything to change this reality.

I have been shocked and heartened to see here in the Philly metro area, WAY more of the disenfranchised, including blacks and women, FINALLY showing up in the construction arena - whether road crews, and finally even some building construction. But it has been a matter of "breaking" some of those trade unions that have systematically kept black and brown workers, as well as women, out of these trades.

You might also recall the poor Latinos who lost their lives on the Key Bridge in Baltimore, were there as a road crew.

Many cities like here in Philly have ordinances that require that contractors have a certain percent of these groups and have also made available partnerships to actually expose high school students to some of the possibilities and commit to training them. E.g., - https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/mercy-career-and-technical-high-school-skilled-labor-citizens-bank-park

I know that former Prez. Barack Obama's Presidential Library in Chicago is being built by construction contractors who have hired a majority of their workforce from a pool of minorities and women - https://www.obama.org/presidential-center/construction-updates/

Last update pic of that (from December 2023) -