WayneBullet 0 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I am not sure if this is racism or not. Like Daniel, I do not teach color or racism. I have a 3 year old son. I live in South Dakota. There is not a lot of diversity here. I think Minorities make up 7%, that is including Native Americans.Anyway, my wife is into R & B music. When my son was 2 years old, Usher was big with the "Yeah, Yeah" song. My son saw the video several times. At that point he made the assumption all African Americans were Usher. We would be watching baseball and he would say Usher when he saw the batter and such.I was pretty embarassed one day though. We were eating lunch and the doorbell rang. Run over to open the door. It was an African American selling carpet supplies. My 2 year old runs up and in an excited voice yells, "Usher!" The guy just looks confused. Link to post Share on other sites
JeremyG 0 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 i LMAO when I read his blog about this... our entire family has raised Austrailian Shepard dogs for about 20 years, and for some reason, EVERY ONE OF THEM will go ballistic when they see a Black person...Weird thing is we live in an area of SW Michigan which is around 75% black. A similar proporton of our friends are black... It has actually become a bit of a joke within our circle of friends, we are about the most NON-r@cist (why won't it let me type that word?) people our friends know... and our dogs are like founding members of the KKK . Link to post Share on other sites
DanielNegreanu 141 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I found out that there is a legitimate reason for that. Dogs don't see in color, and look at facial expressions to discern whether or not someone is happy or being aggressive. Since they have trouble seeing the expression on a black person's face, they assume aggression. Link to post Share on other sites
Piranha 0 Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 You should hire Cesar Milan - The Dog Whisperer. He's on National Geographic every week and was on Oprah recently. He can change any dog's behavior. I think he's out west near you - maybe in CA. Link to post Share on other sites
ajaxiomatic 0 Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 My dog, Misca, used to freak out and get all cujo at every black person. It was so embarrassing. Then one day, a dog trainer told me too that it has to do with their color-blindedness. Because black people are harder to discern, if a dog is unfamiliar with black people it feels the need to protect you. So, get her familiar with some black folks, and she will be enlightened into a kindler, gentler Misca, right?So, I asked my neighbor Dee to feed her some treats and take some time to help me train her. Misca soon became enamored with Dee and her children (treats will do that to a dog) and now... she's okay with black people but hispanics make her freak out.Ah well, baby steps... Link to post Share on other sites
Gene zzz 0 Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 I found out that there is a legitimate reason for that. Dogs don't see in color, and look at facial expressions to discern whether or not someone is happy or being aggressive. Since they have trouble seeing the expression on a black person's face, they assume aggression. DN is telling secerts again, happy=tight Link to post Share on other sites
bearshadoe 0 Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 You did not know that dogs could not see color. I find that unusual cause that was the first thing they told us about my dog Lady. My first dog Shadoe was prejudiced, not this one though. She dislikes everyone outside the family. Might have to do with the fact that as a pup she was beat and then dumped on the road though. I would not trust humans either if I was her. Shadoe though there was no explaining him . Link to post Share on other sites
wptinsider 0 Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Not only do dogs not see color but they react to what they are familiar with. If a dog is raised by black people then they will be skittish of anybody who is not black - white people, asian, etc. As diverse as a dogs owner can be, the dog will more than likely be a racist and continue to embarrass it's owner over and over and over again.I'm a white women, who used to live in New Orleans with a blonde cocker spaniel. We used to live next to Emril's Restaurant in the Warehouse District and EVERYTIME I took her for a walk in the back alley, we would walk past the kitcen staff of who were mainly black and she would start barking the person down who was trying to enjoy their smoke break. I immediately became programmed to apoligize for my racist "lady" but the upside is that I got to meet most of the locals in the city and fortunately they didn't hold my dogs racist behavior against me!We won't hold you accountable for Mushu's behavior as well! Link to post Share on other sites
CardWarfare 4 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 couldn't help but laugh at the fact that they censored the first word of the breed of your dog LOL Link to post Share on other sites
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