Perspective: The Howard University controversy was never just about dogs. It was about respect.
A Howard University student walks across the Yard on the way to class. By Theresa Vargas Theresa Vargas Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities. Email Bio Follow Columnist April 24 at 2:06 PM Some D.C. residents may still think it’s okay to walk a dog across Howard University’s central yard.
It also lends support to the outrage and the pushback students from the historically black university have expressed in defense of a space they consider sacred.In recent weeks, they have not held back. Other students and alumni have used equally potent language. They have called their neighbors, who in recent years have become whiter and wealthier, “colonizers” and “disrespectful gentrifiers.”
“Howard University was created because Black People were not allowed in white spaces,” one person wrote in a tweet that was shared more than 3,400 times. “Dogs would viciously attack us at their white owners call. For a white man to say we should ‘move’ our historic university to accommodate his dog … shows history repeats itself.”
No, this is not just about dogs. It is about tensions that have long been growing — and will likely show themselves in other neighborhoods in other forms, just as they did recently with go-go music — in a city that has changed so rapidly in the past few decades that it can feel dizzying.
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