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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
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![/quote]

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 [b]it’s not like you can tell a dog to hold it if nature calls[/b]. 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!)[/quote]

If you don't have control over your dog, don't walk it out in places where people expect it to be under your control. [b]Having a dog is NOT a right. [/b]And walking a dog through a university campus - and then just shrugging when they poop because 'dogs will be dogs' - is not a right either. It's the height of entitlement. It's almost as obnoxious as the people thinking it's acceptable to let their dogs run around desecrating a cemetery.

You're seriously sick if you think it's some sort of inevitability that your dog will sometimes poop on grass where students lounge around between classes and there's nothing you can do about it. Here's a concept: don't take your dog there. And if that means you have nowhere else to walk your dog, then you shouldn't have a dog while you live where you live. The world doesn't need to yield to you because you choose to own an animal. And store staff, owners and other customers don't want your animals inside the stores either. Start showing a bit of respect for others and understanding that the world doesn't revolve around you.
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