nope I've been involved with small construction companies my whole career, I've seen first hand where minority companies get bids solely because they are minority owned, and even though the company I was working for was a lower bidder, because we didn't have a majority of minority workers we were denied... time and time again.. it wasn't that we did shoddy work or came in during the job with overages... we didn't have enough minorities working with us, not because we didn't want them, but because every one we hired didn't work out due to issues ranging from attendance to incompetance. Hell i went thru union classes with minority guys that bragged about the fact that they wouldn't get fired because they were MINORITY union workers!! If I didn't show up on time every time I was OUT the freaking DOOR!!