The dog debate highlights the District’s struggles over race and gentrification.
By Tara Bahrampour Tara Bahrampour Reporter focusing on aging, generations and demography Email Bio Follow April 19 at 7:25 PM Earlier this month someone who lives near Howard University wrote to a prominent District website with a concern:
Such dramas have played out recently on large and small stages, including in the city’s Shaw neighborhood this month when a controversy erupted after a resident of a luxury apartment complained about an electronics shop playing loud go-go music on outdoor speakers. It was no place to walk a dog, students said — especially one that might stop along the way to relieve itself.
Charmaine Stegall, 19, a sophomore, pointed out that there are many other places to walk dogs in the city. “Why do they want to invade a black space, like white people do, just like they did all over D. C.?”she said. “I pay 40K a year to be here, to be very comfortable. Most black students grew up surrounded by white people, by racism.”
“This is supposed to be like a safe haven, like a space for us,” said Kenzell Munroe, 20, a sophomore. “You see what’s happening all around the Shaw area, white people, it’s like they’re infiltrating the space . . . and now they’re coming here and bringing picnics with their kids. Like, bro, why would you come here? Like, bro, come on, can we just have something?”
“It’s not that we don’t like dogs; many of us have dogs and love them,” she told The Washington Post on Friday. But when seeing an unfamiliar dog, she said, “We’re remembering images of protests when people were attacked by dogs, we’re remembering images of dogs accompanying the Klan.”
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