Every Dog Walk Is an Opportunity for Casual Racism

There’s nothing quite like the mental calculus around a chance meeting with strangers

Shane Paul Neil
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5 min readNov 17, 2020

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Our little Bean. Photos: Shane Paul Neil

When we got our Dalmatian puppy, Bean, I learned one quick and hard lesson: To own a dog is to reconcile with the prospect of forced socializing.

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Shane Paul Neil
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Writer (duh) and photographer. Bylines @levelmag @complex @ebony @huffpo shanepaulneil.com