A Black lawn care business owner recorded the moments when an older white woman turned down his services in the middle of an appointment allegedly because of his race.
TikTok user @heaintthatfunny posted a video showing his encounter with a white female homeowner in a residential neighborhood where he was contracted for lawn care services.
“She didn’t want Black people to mow her yard, y’all,” he narrates. “She didn’t know she was hiring Black people.”
The video pans back and forth between the woman on the street who appears to be calling the police and a view of her lawn, only part of which has been freshly cut.
“We’ve already started. Look how much we’ve cut already,” the man behind the cellphone states while showing the woman’s lawn.
In the video caption, the man wrote that the woman and a third-party company hired him to mow her yard weekly. During his encounter with the …