Dogs don’t like Negroes

    If dogs were racists, mongrel street dogs wouldn’t exist.

    There’s something indeed!...   And the problem comes from long time ago.  Since the import of the Fila Dog of Portugal to Brazil to catch the Negro slaves that by any chance tried to flee.

    One of the early missions of the Brazilian Fila, on the contrary of what we may suppose, was not being a cattle dog, but a guard dog. In that period, we didn’t think about cynophily and, much less, about standard preservation. So the Fila was only a dog. A dog that watched over the slaves. On escapes, the slaves were caught by dogs. The white men passed their hate against the escaping Negroes to the dogs. The Negro slaves, on their turn, spread among themselves the news that dogs don’t like Negroes.

    To this day, white men and Negroes sustain the myth that "dogs don’t like Negroes".
When a white man passes, with his little dog, by another white man and he barks... "Oh! What a cute dog!"  When a Negro passes by, instinctive and unconsciously, he shortens the leash and transmits to his dog the fear that he could bite the Negro. This one, on his turn, noticing the owner’s fear, make the pantomime of fear and, changing the rhythm of the walk, goes away walking slower with care and fear.

    There are several colored people that own guard dogs that dislike white men when they’re invaders or aggressive.