http://www.blacknews.com/pr/chitlinmarket201.html

Hyattsville, MD (BlackNews.com) - Paul W. Gardner, II, Esq., filed a lawsuit on behalf of Shauna Anderson against The City of Hyattsville Office of Code Enforcement, Prince George's County, Maryland Division of Environmental Health, Food Protection Program and The Washington Suburban Commission. Shauna believes that these agencies deliberately and continuously attempted to shut down her Chitlin sales and stop her from opening her Chitlin Restaurant on Ager Road and Mobile Unit in Hyattsville, Maryland.

"I'm not just doing this for me but for all the small ethnic businesses around the country that are trying to survive under deliberate efforts from zoning or government agencies to shut them down. Some of us just don't fit into a developer's idea of what's acceptable," Shauna Anderson passionately spoke out on the issue. "It was clear to me after former county councilman Peter Shapiro expressed outrage about an episode of ABC's "Commander in Chief" where the fictional president arrived outside a "Chitlin and Pork Chop" restaurant to address the violence in Hyattsville, Maryland. Peter Shapiro had the incredible nerve to say: a chitlin restaurant "is a negative stereotype of a poor, dangerous black neighborhood."