May 29, 2002 at 12:00 am #31980
Seamus28242
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I've never noticed that. In fact, lots of black people I know have the biggest, ugliest, scariest dogs I've ever seen. However, I can only hazard a guess that because black people, especially black women, tend to be more emotional right on down the scale, from happiness to sadness to anger to fear, perhaps they just let their emotions out more and it seems like they are more afraid. And of course, there is the historical connotation of some brutal police officers and their dogs, especially during the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps that has something to do with it as well.