Black workers build homes they are barred from ever inhabiting.

Evidence

When we walked out of the Barnett house, a house we were building, in a white neighborhood where none of us would ever be allowed to live, I watched Dafinas and Rae hug for eight seconds. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1214

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ADDENDUM on trees/grafting as infrastructure metaphor and the reframing thesis: Black labor building the nation’s infrastructure while excluded from its fruits.