Backtalk: That is called feudalism

Last week, Thomasi McDonald gave us an update on the saga involving a Guilford County couple who says they were wrongfully evicted from a building they were renting for their selfie photo booth business, Bull City Selfie Museum. 

The building’s landlord, retired Durham judge Jim Hardin Jr., says the couple owes him hundreds of thousands of dollars in rent and other expenses. Now a new selfie business is operating out of the building—using the couple’s original photo booths and the same business model. Readers on Instagram had thoughts.

Reader @d.moses.l says no judges should own rental property and explains the reasoning thusly:

If you own property *and also* are in charge over the enforcement of laws related to it, that is called feudalism. There’s no winning against that, unless you appeal to a higher authority, but that shouldn’t ever even be necessary. It’s unconscionable that a chief justice could use the power of law to unjustly evict the tenants and then enrich themselves on their displacement. Period. If you like/want that, there is no room for justice in that system.

From reader @bdajour:

The fact that they are using this family hard work, time, construction, and work doesn’t sit right with me. They really created another selfie studio using her new renovation while evicting them.. is evil!! We will not stop til their is justice!! @erica_r_b_ @bullcityselfiemuseum so sorry you’re going through this!!!

From reader @doubl_a_ron:

*sarcasm* I don’t see any questionable business practices here.

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