Caribbean Nations Outraged at Dominican Racism

A lot of black people just talk.  For them, the struggle has to be ghettoized.  Most black people don't care about the plight of other black people in other parts of the world. We are so inward-looking when it comes to the struggle of the black world. Just witnessing the outpouring of condolences on the death of Nelson Mandela; but white imperialists and criminal politicians are also praising him. Thank you Glen for this article.  It is becoming clear that most black people are more interested in how much assimilated they are either culturally or racially to Europe. I was expecting to read outrage in the comment section of this article. I suppose it is not an american problem.  We have a big problem, black folks.

The points made are essentially on target, but subtleties do persist. I am not Dominican, but it is a commonly accepted fact that Dominicans bear historical resentment over the short time Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic; and under the two decades of Haitian rule major positive changes were brought to the country.  No one resented that more than the brutal cleptomaniac-dictator Trujillo.  Dominicans may be in denial about race but they know their history.   I am also told that in a country with hyper-corruption, like DR, it is not difficult to buy a birth certificate or, for the right price, getting just about any Dominican to vouch as a daddy or mommy (wouldn't surprise me if they could manufacture paternity tests in the process).  Moreover, just how does one produce a mulatto if not through 'inter-marriage.'  People in love and in survival mode don't give much of a damn about race.  Life-long friends and neighbors who share decades of economic struggle help each other out, regardless of their origins when they speak a common language. This, of course, is somewhat tangential to the country's race pathology. But subtleties do add up to allow giving the avearage Dominican the benefit of the doubt that the outrageous action of an idiot Supreme Court will be allowed to prevail in Dominican society. It may be the best that happen to the Dominican Republic if the response is one of moral outrage . . ., and shame.  

I am Dominican and our history did not begin on 1937 with Trujillo’s massacre? It is very nice talk about two short decades, but unlike the rest of the American nations we had to free ourselves first from Spain and then from Haiti, that after invading us repeatedly, occupied us and did it best to eliminate us as people, our language, religion and culture. In February 27th 1844, after we declared our independence from Haiti we fought its bigger, trained, armed, more powerful and experienced army, spilling the blood of our people in many battles. Did you know of the massacres that were committed against our people, including Moca, where the retreating army killed the whole population (babies, women, men, old and inclusive the animals they found in their way)? In Santiago they locked everyone that could not escape in the church and set it on fire. Dominicans do not periodically attempt to dispel the Haitians, unlike them, we have never kill a Haitian in Haiti because we have never set foot in Haiti, they are the ones constantly invading us, violently or pacifically and then crying wolf, but always end with several miles more of our territory. How dare anybody call us bad neighbors if we have almost two millions Haitians living with us, sharing our food, clean water, health and education systems while they are immediately deported from any other country they manage to reach? Did you know when the earthquake who was there first, who open our hospitals for their injured, share our food and water and helped them in any possible way? To immigrate to DR, they take their children hands and walk to DR. In Haiti they don’t have food, water, health, education, jobs, safety or documents. So they come here without papers and them declare that they and their children were born here and we deny them papers because we are racist. We are about 10 millions, there are about two millions of Haitians here, we are a poor country, there is a lot of corruption, but we are forced us to share with them our meager resources for education, health, etc., while the elite and Haitian government pocket the millions of dollars and Euros donated to the country and do nothing for the people. Talk is cheap and judging very easy, but you should know that the result of your lesson would be a terrible punishment to the Haitians, that would make their life even worse, if we suffer, they would suffer much, much more, because none of you offer them what we do.

The mulattos worked against the Haitian Revolution.  The mulatto generals, sons and daughters of the French, black mothers and French fathers, betrayed the Haitian Revolution.  As the war was wearing down and the black Haitians had prevailed, the mulattos were invited to France, against Toussaint L'Overture, and the French general who hated the Africans, as well as the mulattos, Rasha Bota, wanted to teach the mulattos he hated them as much as the Africans.  So he had a party for the wives of the mulatto generals.  After the party Rasha announced to the wives, I have a present for you ladies, go in the other room, look in the boxes, inside you will find your gifts, but inside the boxes, were the cut off heads of their mulatto husbands.  Mulattos are in denial, of European love for them.  In south Africa they are referred to as coloreds, but in the Dominican, they call themselves white.  The more I see this type of behavior against African people, it only makes me love my brown self that much more.  If there is a do over of the planet, I wish only to be a black African.  All praise and honor to the black Africans, we have struggled so long, but one day it will all come to an end, and once again no one will be on the planet but Africans, and all the invaders who may attempt to come in will be met with a force never seen before.  Never again will we allow strangers on our land looking to survive, and to destroy us.  

Thank you Glen, for all that you do to help keep us informed of the racism and attacks agains black people.   We never see news like what we see here on Black Agenda Report.  I plan to make my donations in the very near future.