Open Campus: The debate over the use of Howard's campus by neighbors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

Shut up! So entitled and gross and reeks of white privilege.Sad thing is u probably dont even realize it.

[Anonymous]

So are you saying white people are not welcome at Howard? Is that the subtext?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

HBCUs were created bc blacks were unwelcome on white campuses. And our current President has made it clear that many minorities are not welcome in the states either. White ppl have the entire country at their feet. This is one Yard. Just one. Y’all will live.

I mentor several Howard students, and I am supposed to visit them on campus next week and give a talk.

If white people arent welcome, i suppose i should cancel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

Way to center your feelings. Black people are made to feel unwelcome in their own homes, cars, places of business, worship. Forget public or semi-public spaces. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

JFC-just stop. I'm white and have been on HU campus plenty of times. You just don't get it. Do you have a yard? I'll walk my dog on it so he can take a dump. I'm sure you won't mind!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

HBCUs were created bc blacks were unwelcome on white campuses. And our current President has made it clear that many minorities are not welcome in the states either. White ppl have the entire country at their feet. This is one Yard. Just one. Y’all will live.

I mentor several Howard students, and I am supposed to visit them on campus next week and give a talk.

If white people arent welcome, i suppose i should cancel.

If you’re a Howard mentor, I’m Melania Trump. Keep quiet and stop your trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

HBCUs were created bc blacks were unwelcome on white campuses. And our current President has made it clear that many minorities are not welcome in the states either. White ppl have the entire country at their feet. This is one Yard. Just one. Y’all will live.

I mentor several Howard students, and I am supposed to visit them on campus next week and give a talk.

If white people arent welcome, i suppose i should cancel.

Lol you’re going to give your talk on the Yard?

Honestly if your mentees saw your comments on this thread your invitation would likely be rescinded. You’re not that special, white ppl with a white savior complex are a dime a dozen. Move on, folks! Nothing to see here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

JFC-just stop. I'm white and have been on HU campus plenty of times. You just don't get it. Do you have a yard? I'll walk my dog on it so he can take a dump. I'm sure you won't mind!

If you bring a bag, that would be fine, and I won’t go off on a rant about how you’re disrespecting my space, either. I think these students are pretending to play the victim, but are really trying to intimidate whites into avoiding the area around the university. When white person behave like that, it goes viral and they get called nasty names.

[Anonymous]

I don’t there there should be any areas of this country where white people are made to feel unwelcome, regardless of the history.

And I don’t think there should be areas of this country where black people should be made to feel unwelcome.

However, taking your dog to an educational campus you don’t attend, and then letting that dog either pee or poop in any area where a person may sit or lay - regardless of whether you “clean it up” - is so obnoxious that I can’t even get my head around it.

[Anonymous]

Howard is an absolutely filthy campus. There have literally been whirling dervishes of litter and trash blowing around on the quad and and front of the student center the times I've attended events there. It was disgusting. Like a filthy third world country level of litter and trash blowing around. And of course not one student ever picked up a single piece of it. Compared to the trash and litter the students leave behind, someone walking their dog is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Howard is an absolutely filthy campus. There have literally been whirling dervishes of litter and trash blowing around on the quad and and front of the student center the times I've attended events there. It was disgusting. Like a filthy third world country level of litter and trash blowing around. And of course not one student ever picked up a single piece of it. Compared to the trash and litter the students leave behind, someone walking their dog is a joke.

Not to mention the violent crimes.

[Anonymous]

“In 2015, students started the Twitter hashtag #wearenotapark, expressing distaste with residents using the campus as communal green space. “Dear White people, Howard University is not a park,” reads one tweet. “Howard is our safe space, not your play place,” reads another.

If a white person posted this there would be a protest. Sorry, but I live in bloomingdale and howard’s Campus feels safe compared to the increasing crime at neighborhood playgrounds (stabbings, shootings, smoking weed). I’ve witnessed all of the aforementioned during the day while out with my kids. I choose to walk through howard’s Campus to get to the shops nearby Bc there is security. I will also kick a ball on their grounds at times because I don’t have to worry about dog poop, glass, or needles. The issue that needs to be addressed is the surrounding parks/playgrounds and he crimes committed weekly.

[Anonymous]

Pp here. Also wanted to state that I respect the students and only use the grassy areas if empty and we’re not bothering anyone — typically we use in the evening when classes are done and students aren’t on campus. I grew up near a university and this was the norm (we used facilities, tennis courts, track, etc. so long as they weren’t being used by students)

[Anonymous]

This whole thread reads like a bunch of conservative sock puppets fighting with each other, along with a small handful of good faith posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel like, as a white person, I would be unwelcome and made to feel unsafe walking anywhere on the HU campus, with or without a dog. Sure, the dog walking is the pretext, but the subtext seems to be that no white person can enter the campus without the express permission of a black person.

JFC-just stop. I'm white and have been on HU campus plenty of times. You just don't get it. Do you have a yard? I'll walk my dog on it so he can take a dump. I'm sure you won't mind!

I don’t think people bring their dogs to howard’s Campus intending to use their lawn as a bathroom. Howard is smack dab in the middle of houses and stores that residents want to get to. I wouldn’t want my dog to go to the bathroom on their campus (nor would I play fetch with my dog there), but it’s not like you can tell a dog to hold it if nature calls. Dogs poop on my lawn all the time — I don’t like it, but I won’t throw a fit about it (and I’m not even an open campus!)