By: Bridget Taylor

Bridget Taylor — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:25:25 +0000

Hello,
I would just like to commend Smitty on becoming a black business owner. My husband Lorenzo Taylor worked with Smitty on several different occassions with just about every construction company here in Ft Wayne.
While I loudly and graciously applaud Smitty for his great accomplishment, I am also proud that he stepped out on faith to do what God has willed him to do.
What is unfortunate is that my family has to relocate because there is “no work” for the Concrete Finishers which works out of a Union Hall. All of the
construction that had been going on in the downtown area (almost at our back door)my husband was constantly being told that there was “nothinhg going on” by the BA of the union hall. Not to mention the Mayor going on TV stating that the out of town contractor from Indianapolis that was overseeing “Parkview Field and the Hotel” project would hire 50% of the workers from the union hall here in Ft. Wayne. My husband walked to the work site on several occassions and talked with the foreman and was told that he had to put in an “application” with the contractor out of Indiananpolis. He did so and I personally faxed everything to their office and he never heard a word. Not to mention I work accros the street and I can count on two fingers how many black men I have seen at on this project. In every attemp to call the Mayors office regarding his promise to the city and union hall, we were referred right back to the job site (Interesting).
So Smitty, now that you have broken through some of those bariers I pray that you will put some of our black men in the construction business to work so that they will not have to depend on unemployment conpensation to pay their mortgage payments, lose their homes, or have to leave everything behinde to be able to provide for their families.
May God bless you, your business and your family!! Congratulations to you!!!
Bridget Taylor

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