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This already happens all the time with delivery services for the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods of SF. The wording is usually something about avoiding the area "east of Interstate 280", e.g. https://www.purplestarmd.com/delivery/

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East of 280 doesn't really denote anything about danger to me, as I don't recall those areas being any more dangerous than the rest of SF. If they deliver to Tenderloin and not there I highly doubt it's for the reason you're alluding to

> If they deliver to Tenderloin and not there I highly doubt it's for the reason you're alluding to

http://radicalcartography.net/bayarea_race.jpg

I mean this proves my point? If you're trying to point out the one part that's blue on that map to the right of 280, I'll point you to the multiple pockets of blue inside their delivery zones

Feel free to provide a different explanation :)

Your explanation is trying to insinuate that it’s because they’re black, but they deliver to black neighborhoods inside SF limits, therefore you can’t just say “oh they’re racist”.

If my original example is what we went with, you could because tenderloin is smack dab in SF, and it would be clearly discriminatory to pick up passengers from everywhere in SF except that one neighborhood.

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