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Dominicans Dressed as Ku Klux Klan
In 2014, the Dominican Carnival featured 180 processions, representing the 31 provinces of the Dominican Republic. The colorful, creative costumes and energetic drum-driven music entertained the crowds until the presence of a small group dressed as the Ku Klux Klan came into view and shocked most of the spectators. According to
7días, this wasn’t the first time participants chose to dress as the KKK during carnival.
A statement issued by Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture offered this explanation:“Every group is free to choose their themes, whether using elements of the Dominican identity or universal culture in their costumes.” The statement continued: The Dominican Republic is a “free country” where people are at liberty “to express their creativity.”
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Dominicans of Haitian Descent Stripped of Citizenship
A September 2013 court decision ruled that Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry would have their citizenship revoked, according to a report published by
Atlanta Black Star.
The decision affects roughly 250,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent. Some citizens affected by the ruling have no connection to Haiti at all. The citizens in jeopardy of losing citizenship rights will have severe restrictions on education, employment, legal marriage and birth registration. Leaving the country also presents challenges because they will not be able to obtain or renew passports, according to the National Institute for Latino Policy.
On February 19, 2014, the Dominican Republic delegation to the Organization of American States released a statement ensuring that the residents of Haitian descent will their rights as citizens. Mayerlyn Cordero Diaz, Dominican Representative of the OAS said: “The government of the Dominican Republic reaffirms that no person holding Dominican nationality will be stripped of it.”
However, an estimated 24,000 Dominican-born Haitians presently have confirmed pending deportation cases because they are reportedly missing documentation.
The Haitian Massacre of 1937
In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, who was of mixed race, commanded his army to kill all Haitians living in the northwestern Dominican Republic that borders Haiti.
According to
“Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History” published by Stanford University Press, from Oct. 2 to Oct 8, hundreds of Dominican soldiers and local militia groups confined and slaughtered an estimated 15,000 Haitian people living in the area. Most of the victims were small farmers born in the Dominican Republic into families settled in the area for several generations. According to the Dominican Republic’s own constitution, most of the victims would have been considered citizens.
In 2007, the Catholic Church requested a national apology from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, archbishop of Santo Domingo, refused to comply because he said the Haitian massacre occurred 70 years ago, and Trujillo was killed in 1961. Rodriguez said: “In this case it’s Trujillo who should be asked to render account, who was the criminal. It doesn’t seem to me that the Dominican people have any guilt in that, honestly.”
Thousands march in Haiti over Dominican racism
Haitians from all walks of life took to the streets of the capital to demand justice for the lynching death of a Haitian man in the neighboring country of the Dominican Republic.
Two weeks after a
Haitian man was lynched in the Dominican Republic, thousands marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, demanding justice and denouncing rising anti-Haitian sentiment in the neighboring Spanish-speaking country.
Thousands march in Haiti over Dominican racism
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