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Take a seat #PermitPatty, the kid’s got a business to run

by Shoshana Weissmann
Sept 17, 2018
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issues: Finance and Trade, Healthier Communities, Occupational Licensing, Thriving Families
originally published in AfroPhilly

By no means is this story new, either. The #PermitPatty hashtag was born from an eight-year-old girl in San Francisco selling water bottles to people passing by on a hot day. A grown woman got upset about this, called the police, and, due to the eight-year-old girl’s lack of a permit, her water stand was shut down. It highlights the number of disgruntled people meddling in business that isn’t their own, is doing no harm, and is, predominantly, directed at black people.

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