Hypothetical Scenario:
A man owns a Home Healthcare company. His company delivers oxygen and medical supplies to folks who live at home but require these supplies as a matter of life and death or at least for a healthier, better quality of life. The man's company is centered in a part of town that borders a really rough, high-crime neighborhood but he needs to deliver medical supplies to anyone and everyone who needs them regardless of the neighborhood in which they reside. The high-crime neighborhood happens to be mostly black.
The man employs 8 delivery technicians. 4 of them are black and 4 of them are white. Whenever he sends one of his white drivers into the black neighborhood they are either harassed or assaulted. As a result and for safety's sake the company owner enacts a new company policy: "Only black drivers shall deliver medical supplies to that black neighborhood."
Is the company owner a racist for only sending drivers of a particular race to a particular neighborhood?
A man owns a Home Healthcare company. His company delivers oxygen and medical supplies to folks who live at home but require these supplies as a matter of life and death or at least for a healthier, better quality of life. The man's company is centered in a part of town that borders a really rough, high-crime neighborhood but he needs to deliver medical supplies to anyone and everyone who needs them regardless of the neighborhood in which they reside. The high-crime neighborhood happens to be mostly black.
The man employs 8 delivery technicians. 4 of them are black and 4 of them are white. Whenever he sends one of his white drivers into the black neighborhood they are either harassed or assaulted. As a result and for safety's sake the company owner enacts a new company policy: "Only black drivers shall deliver medical supplies to that black neighborhood."
Is the company owner a racist for only sending drivers of a particular race to a particular neighborhood?