Ok you can't accurately compare a small Caribbean island to Africa. Africa has over 50 countries and hundreds of millions of people. Anyone with common sense would know that it depends where in Africa you are comparing it with. Next, the article is very racist. It is pure ignorance. Blacks in America come in every class, different morals, different skin complexions, different hair types, different cultures and education levels. You cant take them all at the same time and talk about a group of blacks like in the article. You are talking about millions of people and each one is a different person with a different personality and genetic makeup and upbringing and cultural views and morals.
Blacks in America are Americans. They act like gringos and the whites and other American groups of people. Blacks in the DR and latinos. They are spanish. They act like the mexicans and other latinos and other people in the Caribbean. They have their own crime and types of ghettos and thugs. They are not American thugs from the inner city ghettos in America. They act more like the Puerto Rican, Cuban and latino thugs.
I would not say the DR is like an American ghetto movie. It acts more like a Dominican movie. There is a huge difference.
But, if you are racist like the people who wrote the article and do not like people are darker skin complexions and roots in them from Africa like the people in the DR then stay out. Stay far from this beautiful tropical island with beautiful people in it.
If you want to lose your ignorance, study history and geography. Africa is a huge continent that makes it too hard to compare as a whole to a small island. The DR has African roots like African Americans but they are not Americans. All African Americans are not one person with one way of doing things. The DR way is caribbean and latino. The Spanish influenced them and filled them with pride and has them as part of their culture. In America, the British took in the African Americans and showed them their ways. This made two completely groups of blacks with different culture and ways of life. Study about large groups of white causing damage in India, destroying Africa, colonizing and harming people around the world, doing slavery, killing millions and millions of Indians and being criminals. Blacks are just people like everyone else they are not any more dangerous than any other group of people.