lto me your just a person of color.
Look the caribean island are no different than the states and no different then Brazil which has the second largest population if people "recognized" with black skin. They were all SLAVE countries. Period. So you can get caught up in this I'm not black or i'm lighter complexion so I'm really not white nor black.
Look, your a person of color. Save the color mess for the Statistic takers, and let them spend time marginalizing and categorizing people.
Dominicans!! your people of color. Now if you want to be white to feel excepted, thats up to you.
There was this one test people always joked about, even though it was true....."Do you think you could get a drink at a white drinking fountain in the 1950's and 1960's without getting hog tied in the states?
If you can answer that question, you already know what many people see.
And if you claim, "well what if they hear me speak spanish or Indian. Well then your just a spanish speakin' , indian speakin, "Black person." (there is another word but I wont use it)
I had this debate with my wife...and she asked me, "what do people see when they see me in the states"?.......I said, "to be honest, if you don't open your mouth, a light skinned sista" Man she was hot. But I was being up front. She wasn't angry that she looked black mind you, she actually prefer to be darker, she was upset that she did not appear 1. Latina, and/or 2. a Dominican.
She assumed people in the states knew what a Dominican looked like. "I said the only Dominicans, Americans really trully know, are Sammy and Pedro."
Probably if it wasn't for them, Americans would think Dominicans where majority white like they think Cubans are.
I said, "a lot of Americans don't even know where the the country is until you mentioned the word Haiti." That kind of pissed her off too.