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.

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.

I have never seen the people of any culture with a history of anti-black racism take responsibility for their racism and for its consequences. In the current situation in the DR, I see and hear exactly the same kinds of nonsense I've experienced in the US, and in Brazil, and have heard about from people from South Africa or Rhodesia. In all cases, the racists and their apologists and enablers attempt to blame the people whom they are targeting for THEIR racism. They also like to pretend that they do not have any personal anti-black sentiments, and that such sentiments are not  woven throughout their culture and their world view, and their laws. Many people in the DR need to grow up. They cannot simultaneously feed off Haiti's cheap labor while calling it a parasite. Nor can they pretend that Haiti's problems are not also their problems as well as those of their neighbors and the rest of the hemisphere. It is interesting to speculate how the world "community" would be responding to the DR's retroactive expulsion orders if they were targeted at white people, or at Jews instead of at black skinned people or people of Haitian descent. We all know exactly how that would work out, don't we?