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For more information, there's Deconstructing Border Walls: Tackling the Dominican Republic’s anti-Haitian racism.
I was waiting for the part of the article where they'd go from the Trulijio dictatorship massacres to explaining how things got to be this way, but sadly they never do.
Dominicans have the Boer problem: their neighbor keeps trying to seize their land and enslave them but because they're white and Christian, somehow it never seems to count as colonization.
Now I won't be so naive as to claim there isn't fault on the Dominican side, but you'd think not wanting to associate with people who are your declared ennemies would at the very least be justified.
I kind of feel bad, because I shared the article merely because of the silly headline. Apologies for making you read it.
It's extremely hard to find anything (at least in English language media) that represents the position of proponents of the wall. Presumably there are some: a majority of DR citizens support it. But most articles are just about how it's racist and inhumane and escalating tensions.
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Dominicans are white?
Hispanics, like Jews, are Schrodinger's whites depending on whether or not it serves The Narrative. See also: George Zimmerman.
Strange that they are Hispanic - they’re more black than Spanish
The word Hispanic really doesn’t have anything to do with someone’s racial background
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They're literally from the island of Hispañola, you can't get any more Hispanic. (of course the Haitians are too).
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They're mulattoes..
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The most surprising thing to me here is the amount of white ancestry in Haiti and Jamaica
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They're Spaniards mixed with Afro-Carribeans. Make of that what you will.
They are lighter skinned than Haitians so in the grand unified anglo theory of colonial struggle that the linked article uses, that makes them the whites here. I don't make the rules.
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