Dog walking while Black in SF parks: Why we need the CAREN Act
June 3, 2021
Alamo Square – Terry Williams of Terry & Roxy’s Dog Walking is a professional dog walker and doggy daycare owner born and raised off Alamo Square Park in San Francisco. He’s seen many changes to his neighborhood in the historically Black Fillmore, and one of them is the whitening of Alamo Square Park along with parks all over San Francisco and the subsequent pushing out of Black dog owners who don’t feel safe going to the parks. “My friends won’t take their dogs to the park anymore. They go to the one over there, in the projects. After all this happened, I get up at 5 a.m., before anyone else is out, to take my dogs out.”