Is Moreno Valley Leadership trying to run Black Owned Businesses out of the city?

In light of the recent police raid on Black owned barbershops, the question has come to my mind: why is the leadership of the city trying to run African American businesses out of the city? Several years ago our newspaper carriers were informed by the city to remove our news stands from the streets because of a new ordinance. This was no problem for us because the city of Riverside did this to us several years before. All they had to do was inform us in a timely manner of the ordinance. With such a short notice to comply and with other business priorities at the time, we did remove our stands from the streets. Just a couple of years ago the city initiated an ordinance to regulate where churches could be located. These examples, though on the surface look to be targeted at all businesses related in those industries but they have a disparate impact on Black businesses. With our limited financial and staff resources, it is difficult to send someone over on a moments notice to comply with a government request. We are the only Black owned, legally adjudicated paper in Riverside county and the city of Moreno Valley does not regularly do business with us. Nor do they reach out to our community through public notices seeking invitational bids for small contractors to work for the city. They rarely even place recruitment ads that offer employment in the city. With regard to the churches, we were limited to old established communities in starting our places of worship. This issue has been resolved to some degree but serves as a reminder of obstacles placed in our way to live in this community.

Now we have the police pulling an unconstitutional raid on our hair care businesses which, in my opinion, is in violation of the 4th amendment.

I wish to point out that Blacks make up 19.9% of the population and minorities make up 40.8% of the business community. So the question remains: why would the city want us out and why do they not reach out to embrace and include our contributions?