as a Dominican, i acknowledge that i am Black and i embrace my African roots

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Well..you're a new breed then. I went to the DR and was told that I wasn't black...they called me mulatto...WTF. Then they told me my kids would be beautiful due my husband's asian skin color...again...WTF. Then when trying to leave I had to prove I wasn't Dominican, I was delayed for 2 hours and they kept acting like I could speak spanish and was lying. When I got back to the states I vowed never to return. That country is as color stuck like a mother fudger.
 
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NycStacked said:
Well..you're a new breed then. I went to the DR and was told that I wasn't black...they called me mulatto...WTF. Then they told me my kids would be beautiful due my husband's asian skin color...again...WTF. Then when trying to leave I had to prove I wasn't Dominican, I was delayed for 2 hours and they kept acting like I could speak spanish and was lying. When I got back to the states I vowed never to return. That country is as color stuck like a mother fudger.
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OfTheCross said:
But that's only a problem here because being "black" in America = Being Black American. Which, those Dominicans, are not (culturally).

It's all just a misunderstanding, tbh. I don't see why people get so worked up about it.
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people have a hard time understanding this. Black= AA/ba
no culture was claiming "black" like american descendants were. Claiming anything else is simply revisionist history
Nobody took ownership like we did
 
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K.O.N.Y said:
No lies were told:beli:

Nobody as claiming black like that, till americans made it popular. Thats just facts
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Seriously... I've been wanting to say this to you for a while, but GET OFF THIS FREAKING BLACK AMERICAN SUPERIOR TRIP that you got going. Or bring that crap back to Nairaland... Where tribalism runs rampant.

No, there is no "facts" and how can Americans make a term "popular" that PREDATES them???? Anyhow African slaves throughout the Americas have been calling themselves "black" just as long or LONGER than Black Americans. That's how those French and Spaniard slavers referred to them as. "Negro" anyone??? African-Americans during the early days weren't even literally called black, but "colored". So how did they make the term popular??? Social construct racial terms such as "black" and "white" existed way before American was even a concept.

But to dig a deeper hole into your argument, Haitians have LOOOOONG called themselves black and the "first black republic". The whole idea of their nation was that it was a BLACK one. Yes Haitians commonly referred to themselves as black, and I'm talking way before their freedom. So please do tell how the heck did African-Americans made the term "black" popular??? When their were groups such as Haitians already referring to themselves as "black" way before black/African-American was even a concept.

The thing is and its common sense nations where "blacks" are the obvious majority will of course refer to themselves by nationality first than nation. Why the heck would they refer to themselves as "black" first when about 90% of the country is black? Its moot. But on the other hand with people like AA's, Afro-Dominicans and Afro-Brazilians its a different case. Now do you get where you're from?
 
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K.O.N.Y said:
what culture/ethnicity was using "black" as a social and cultural identifier before black americans:martin:
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You're clueless.

  1. Haitians(before AA's were even freed)
  2. Jamaicans(see 19th century)
  3. Afro-Brazilians
  4. The Moors were referred to as "black"
  5. People south of Egypt was referred to as "Ethiopian" which means Black!
  6. South Africans(during early Apartheid period)
  7. People of the Mali Empire
  8. Basically every black person of Latin America(negro anyone?)

I can go on, but everyone gets my point. What you're saying is as stupid as White Americans making the term "white popular" since Europeans refer to themselves as their nationality before race.

Fact is groups refer to themselves by RACE when they lose cultural/heritage from their homeland as generations go by. Which is why New Zealanders, (white)South Africans, Australians, Americans and Canadians refer to themselves as WHITE, because those groups lost cultural heritage to Europe similar to AA's and other Afro diasporas losing connection to Africa. This isn't even exclusive to America, its just a natural thing that happens!
 
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Raul said:
It's a cultural thing.

Only in America do black people insist that Caribbean black people fall into their rules of what defines "blackness"
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We are the dominant culture in America and that "I pick a lil of this up and a lil of that and remix it...now it's the latino version!!" shyt is very annoying.
 
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