crazygirl_519
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... now that the corrupt piece of shit PG county Jack Johnson is in prison? And people wonder why business owners hate Liberals.
The restaurant that never was
Shauna invested in a run down house on Ager Road in Hyattsville, Maryland and turned it into a sunny, charming restaurant space, renovated to restaurant code on every detail. Then an army of inspectors, excessive bills, tickets, vandalism, and harassment threatened to shut her down. Shauna persevered. While waiting for final approvals, the town officials made their intentions knows.
A 2007 news article from The Hill states the chitlins store became a prop for ABC?s "stereotype of a poor, dangerous black neigrabroadorhood", Shapiro (a city official) is quoted as saying. Prince George?s County Executive Jack Johnson denounced the show in a statement: "When the president [in] the show gets out of a car and is in front of a restaurant that advertises chitlins and pork chops in today?s America, what any right-thinking American knows is we are harking back to an age-old inability of this country to celebrate the leadership and achievement of African-Americans and other diverse people in this country".
Shauna could not understand how a beloved food could become a lightning rod for city development politicking. Shauna fought as long as she could but after investing almost a half million dollars in her new venture, the city rezoned her property residential. Shauna sold her property at a residential price and lost her investment.
Her legal case was dismissed by a local judge and is being investigated by Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski's office.
Shauna continues to sell chitlins online and directly to restaurants.
She is a successful African-American entrepreneur providing a food product that the Hyattsville community have supported since 1995. She has given back to her community over the past decade by employing and training workers coming off public assistance and with my youth mentoring programs and business seminars for women.
Shauna's work and story have been featured in Saveur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Jet Magazine and featured on CNN.
The Chitlin Queen, previously of Hyattsville, MD, is planning to produce a documentary based on her short lived business experience on Ager Road and the depiction of her business as ?demeaning to the community?. Shauna's business was the real life Chitlin restaurant depicted in the ABC "Commander in Chief" episode. Now that Jack Johnson if facing sentencing, Shauna Anderson plans to tell the full story of how she was run off of Ager Road in Hyattsville. Shauna purchased a property and invested over $400,000 in her Chitlin Market which she planned to open in 2006. The Johnson administration continuously harassed Miss Anderson with excessive zoning renovation requirements, ticketing of her Mobile Unit (while Taco Trucks sat unticketed), inflated water bills, and denials for public events. Shauna?s Chitlin Market was rezoned residential in 2006 causing her to sell the property. She is now requesting stories from other small businesses that were victimized by the Johnson administration. Shauna looks forward to Hyattsville succeeding with development plans and preventing the kind of political corruption that she was subjected to on Ager Road.
The restaurant that never was
Shauna invested in a run down house on Ager Road in Hyattsville, Maryland and turned it into a sunny, charming restaurant space, renovated to restaurant code on every detail. Then an army of inspectors, excessive bills, tickets, vandalism, and harassment threatened to shut her down. Shauna persevered. While waiting for final approvals, the town officials made their intentions knows.
A 2007 news article from The Hill states the chitlins store became a prop for ABC?s "stereotype of a poor, dangerous black neigrabroadorhood", Shapiro (a city official) is quoted as saying. Prince George?s County Executive Jack Johnson denounced the show in a statement: "When the president [in] the show gets out of a car and is in front of a restaurant that advertises chitlins and pork chops in today?s America, what any right-thinking American knows is we are harking back to an age-old inability of this country to celebrate the leadership and achievement of African-Americans and other diverse people in this country".
Shauna could not understand how a beloved food could become a lightning rod for city development politicking. Shauna fought as long as she could but after investing almost a half million dollars in her new venture, the city rezoned her property residential. Shauna sold her property at a residential price and lost her investment.
Her legal case was dismissed by a local judge and is being investigated by Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski's office.
Shauna continues to sell chitlins online and directly to restaurants.
She is a successful African-American entrepreneur providing a food product that the Hyattsville community have supported since 1995. She has given back to her community over the past decade by employing and training workers coming off public assistance and with my youth mentoring programs and business seminars for women.
Shauna's work and story have been featured in Saveur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Jet Magazine and featured on CNN.
The Chitlin Queen, previously of Hyattsville, MD, is planning to produce a documentary based on her short lived business experience on Ager Road and the depiction of her business as ?demeaning to the community?. Shauna's business was the real life Chitlin restaurant depicted in the ABC "Commander in Chief" episode. Now that Jack Johnson if facing sentencing, Shauna Anderson plans to tell the full story of how she was run off of Ager Road in Hyattsville. Shauna purchased a property and invested over $400,000 in her Chitlin Market which she planned to open in 2006. The Johnson administration continuously harassed Miss Anderson with excessive zoning renovation requirements, ticketing of her Mobile Unit (while Taco Trucks sat unticketed), inflated water bills, and denials for public events. Shauna?s Chitlin Market was rezoned residential in 2006 causing her to sell the property. She is now requesting stories from other small businesses that were victimized by the Johnson administration. Shauna looks forward to Hyattsville succeeding with development plans and preventing the kind of political corruption that she was subjected to on Ager Road.