So let me get this straight… A teenager mows his elderly neighbor’s yard out of kindness, and the city decides to fine him over a permit issue? Thankfully, the judge had more common sense than the people who issued the citation.

a racist system will always find paperwork, policy, or procedure to justify unequal treatment.

if a young black man breaks the law, the law is invoked.

but too often, black people argue that even when a young black person is doing something kind, harmless, or community-minded, scrutiny appears faster, suspicion comes easier, and punishment is pursued more aggressively.

so let me get this straight—

A teenager helps an elderly neighbor by mowing a lawn, and somehow the response is a citation over permits?

Thankfully, a judge showed more common sense than whoever decided punishment was the answer.

And yes, many people have noticed a growing culture of self-appointed “citizen enforcers” policing who belongs, who is “allowed,” and who gets questioned just for existing, working, or helping.

When kindness is treated with suspicion instead of appreciation, something deeper is broken.

With this being the hill the department climbed on is it not a crime when homeowners mow their own yards, since most of us are not permitted as landscapers?

As far as I have ever known, threats absolutely violate the rules on all social media platforms, and regional LAWS as well.

When I started a commercial cleaning business with my wife in 2011, I didn’t imagine that I would be a plaintiff in a race-discrimination lawsuit against a massive corporation.

I’m a Comcast TV customer. Recently I saw a commercial for Comcast RISE, a grant program for small businesses affected by the pandemic. But looking at the application, we quickly learned that it’s open only to minorities and, more recently, women. The only people excluded are white men—which disqualified our business.

This program implies that our business didn’t struggle during the pandemic because of my race and sex. But we’ve dealt with the same issues every business has regarding the pandemic, inflation and supply-chain disruptions. We had been paying $50 a case for disposable gloves; now we pay $150 a case.

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It was my wife’s idea to start All American Clean, and we run it together. But since we file our taxes as a single-member limited-liability company in my name, we are ineligible for Comcast’s grant. If we had filed in my wife’s name, we’d be eligible. But Comcast excludes any business unless a woman or minority person owns 51% or more. So even if we owned equal shares, we wouldn’t be eligible because I am a white man.

On Feb. 22, Comcast announced the sixth round of RISE grants to 1,300 small businesses. There have been some 8,000 recipients across 590 cities and 34 states. That’s thousands of times the company has discriminated based on race and sex.

Your HOA can’t save you from a horrible neighbor

By Deborah Goonan, Independent American Communities

I’m amazed by the number of people who believe that an HOA “protects” homeowners from a horrible neighbor by enforcing rules that uphold property values.

The research on HOAs and property values is quite thin, and simply doesn’t support the HOA industry’s lofty claims.

The truth is many HOAs are poorly managed. It’s quite common for…