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Bad dogs & minority communities

September 15, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Bad dogs & minority communities

•  Four more fatalities, at least 3 by pit bull, raise 2026 dog attack toll to 50

•  Pit bull kills “glue that held our family together,” but young pastor keeps faith

•  Dog breeds & human races: critique of a false analogy, by Jerry Phillips

•  Boston civil rights leader defied the KKK but feared tenant’s pit bulls

•  Texas 13-year-old fought three pit bulls in losing battle to save baby boy

•  Skunks, raccoons, bears, bad bugs & pit bulls, oh my! in the Carolinas

•   “Latin Kings” gang sign in court as killer pit bull owners are sentenced

•  Rottweilers kill woman & baby within 75 minutes in separate attacks

•  The case of Dexter: a lawless pit bull, by Jerry Phillips

• “The Conversation” & the pit bull shit

• “Rez dogs” kill two people in two days––but likely were not born there

• Malcolm X on pit bulls, other dangerous dogs, & betrayal

• Six pit bull-related deaths linked to “The Wickedest City in America”

• Navajo Nation: “They hid the dogs who killed my daughter!”

• Black man killed by police dog; white man threatened by cop caught at cockfight

• Why “Human races are not like dog breeds: Refuting a Racist Analogy”

• Pit bull attack deaths only slightly slowed by COVID-19 stay-home orders

• Is the new “Motown sound” the scream of a pit bull victim?

• Hero of pit bull attack paid much higher price than convicted owners

• Heroism stops dog attacks––but knowing how helps, too

• When dogs mauled children outside the White House

• Who killed pit bull victim Paris Adams, age 20 months?

• Standing Rock: Who let the dogs out?

• Security guards set dogs on Sioux demonstrators at Standing Rock

• How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963

• Pit bulls now in the “rez dog” gene pool

• Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”: fatal dog attacks triple

• 12-pit bull attack on toddler spotlights soaring risk on reservations

• Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”;  fatal dog attacks double

• Pit bulls, “bullying & backlash,” & who is really threatening whom

• A black-and-white issue that the humane community has yet to face

(Beth & Merritt Clifton)

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