its a very interesting article. she was obviously from a fam who denied it. i never denied this goes on n i always said it is very ignorant but most of us dont feel that way. all of our most famous and succesful dominicans are black. but how can we just sit here and say "we black" when we are way more than just that. we got our own culture, heavily based in african culture, but still our own. we have fought wars securing our independence and we have spent alot of effort to have our own identity.we know obviously we have african ancestry. but we also have european and indian ancestry. we dont rep none of that shyt. we simply hispanic. dominicans. thats how we see ourselves. we vote for people of color. We had a president the same pigment as obama just a few years back. It wasnt huge news over there that he got voted in, he was just a dominican.
The girl that wrote that was obviously just very confused. I am not and most people i know or in my fam are not. yea, we have african. we have spanish, we have portuguese. my girl has a turkish grandmother, we have a ton of jews in sosua, many germans in punta cana, just a huge mix of everything. when somebody asks where we from, should we say "im hispanic; part african, part spaniard, part taino, part german, part jewish and part turkish" ? nah so we just say we dominican.
i just think its so unfair and so stupid that everytime a race discussion gets started, dudes on the coli get so racist and ignorant towards dominicans by singling out the small percentage of dominicans who do not know their history. we are from a 3rd world country. education is getting better now in DR but most of my family members didnt go past 3rd grade. reading writing and math is as far as their knowledge goes. so are there dominicans ignorant to their heritage? hell yea. but for the most part, we in this shyt wit ya. we on the same team. even those that deny their blackness still realize that they are minorities. we aint shyt to these racist cacs either. but blacks get so angry at racism that they even swing at us! thats the fukked up part. sammy sosa wasnt the first colored person to try to become white. michael jackson was doing it since the 80s. those mo-town artists were the originals. black americans were the first to bleach their skin and konk their hair. sammy sosa does it and it becomes fukk DOMINICANS!.
instead of fighting against the self hate, ya fighting the victims of it. black dominicans are just as guilty of self hate as african americans. so until 100% of black america is united on its pro-african tip and becomes a force in the western african movement, ya really shouldnt single us out.
..u confusing me wit someone else..man fukk outta here..dispute anything I said..come with an intelligent response or don't come at all...the only loser is u for gettin so emotional over the Internet...I don't even remember ya screen name...yet u got so mad u "tried" to neg me..
...what a bytch...
That's the point. Even where there are hardly any dominicans there is still dominican business, catering to you're people predominantly.
it doesnt matter that no one is spinning on they heads anymore. breakdancing/graffiti/deejaying/rapping/beatboxing/beats are all the roots and fundamentals of hip hop culture. without all of that, gangster rap wouldve NEVER been born. 
Latinos were peripheral AT BEST!
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