what a fuckin monkey
Some hispanic black people are so disheartened to discover that they're black when they're in america, they flee back to their home countries. So you can't say that no good at all comes out of racism. :mrgreen:
Before I knew better, I used to patronize this dominican restaurant that had a black cook. One day I showed up and the guy had a new hairstyle, artificially straightened hair combed straight back :mrgreen:
I can only imagine him saying, "there - that fixes it. Now no one will mistake me for black again. they'll see me for the indio I am."
Dominicans are an example of people raised on open, governmentally imposed anti-black racism.
When Haiti was founded out of black revolution (distinguished as the only nation founded by "slave revolt", a revolt that defeated napoleon's army), the dominican slavemasters across the border were shaken, and came down hard on the blacks in their country. They didn't want the haitian revolution to spread to the other half of the island of hispaniola that DR shares with haiti, so they made it dangerous and taboo to be "black".
Shit probably even explains why dominican music is so insipid and saccharine to boot (as opposed to puerto rican music for example, which at least has a little soul) -- the drum was probably banned or at least suppressed, like on early plantations in america.
Later, the right wing dictator Rafael Trujillo came down hard on blackness too. From wikipedia: "He developed a uniquely Dominican policy of racial discrimination, Antihaitianismo ("anti-Haitianism"), targeting the mostly-black inhabitants of his neighboring country and those within the Platano Curtain,
including many darker Dominican citizens."
... So that kinda explains these pod-people.
Irony is, Trujillo himself had haitian ancestry, like a whole lot of dominicans.
if this were done in the reverse there would be hell to pay...
