Given the sheer number of recent videos, it seems Black delivery drivers are plagued by racially motivated harassment.
In the latest clip making the rounds online, an unnamed FedEx driver was going about his workday, dropping off packages at a housing complex in South San Diego, California, when a woman approached him, camera phone out and slurs at the ready.
She alleged that he had been driving too fast in the complex, and threatened to call in to report him. The FedEx employee kindly provided her with a corporate number to lodge a complaint. He also noted that the company’s trucks are equipped with cameras and technology to monitor drivers’ speed.
But things soon took a turn. When she mentioned she had been hit by a trash truck, the man naturally asked, “Am I a trash truck?”…