observer keen said:
self-alienation seems to be at the very roots of the surging hostility toward dominicans of haitian descent. i find myself wondering whether our dominican brothers are up to an encore massacre.
have my dominican brothers failed to realize that they are being manipulated by a tiny minority of nazi origin of the like of ballager? they are being made pawns of_ they are being blinded by pseudo-nationalism.
Can this be used as proof of threats to the Dominican Republic?
Let's see:
1. We got organizations claiming Haitians are in Slavery, etc etc etc and yet, not one Haitian goes back to Haiti at will, that I know of. Instead, these Haitians are receiving daily warm meals, unlike in Haiti.
2. Then there are those trying to impose purely race based racism, divide Dominicans based on the notion of color. These are people who want darker Dominicans to disown a lighter Dominican and vice-versa, even if they are family by blood.
3. Then there are the anti-elitists who believe that getting rid of the people who keep this country alive is what will help.
4. And then there are those who wish the expansion of Haiti over Dominican territory, but they won't make that clear now because it will be complete suicide to their own objectives at the moment.
5. Then we got those who simply hate all Dominicans, regardless of anything else, they might even hate Dominicans who are helping Haitians.
6. And last, but not least, not one person brings up the issue of developing Haiti, making Haiti a better place so Haitians won't have to come to DR for their survival, and nobody is really looking at the Haitian government as having any responsibility in all of this.
Does it need to be said that if Haiti would have been more developed, maybe the Haitian dilemma that spans beyond the Dominican Republic, in fact affects every nation and territory in the Caribbean, would never had occur to the levels that are occuring?
Jean (or Jac) Chirac (France's Prime Minister) made a speech in Guadaloupe during his last election bid claiming among many things "to deport all those illegal-Haitians who are chopping your trees, stealing your jobs, and degrading your culture". This was Chirac from "civilized" France talking to Guadaloupians! But, not a word of controversy came to light.
In the Bahamas, constant worry from native Bahamians of "enough is enough, the Haitian invasion must be stopped" are echoing across the archipelago, and not a bit of criticism comes to light.
In the Turks and Caicos, Haitians are supposedely responsible for "crime, cutting down trees, exposing residents to Aids, causing car accidents, and degrading the island image by living in hovels like animals" and I am quoting! And not a bit of criticism is heared.
Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Barbadoians, St. Lucians, Antiguans, Arubans, the entire Caribbean has an anti-Haitian rhetoric flowing throw their gossips, newspaper columns, and national psyche and not a word of criticism comes to light.
Yet, a Haitian is deported from Dominican Republic, the sky appears to come crashing down with anti-Dominicans like Colette Lespinasse inflating truths and mixing them with certain lies to make her global case against Dominicans. Groups like the Haitian-Dominican Women's Movement who had at one point a good base and ideology that has rotten into what appears to be an agenda against Dominican sovreignity where they demand citizenship to all Haitians in Dominican territory who are here illegally, while at the same time the Haitian government denies its own people their Haitian citizenship, despite Haitian law recognizing citizenship BY BLOOD! They do grant Haitian citizenship to any Haitian born outside of Haiti, except if its the DR!
The list goes on and on and on and on, this anti-Dominican slant, this attempt to divide Dominicans, this attempt to discredit Dominican continues to permute into the media constantly!
Funny how not one person is thanking the Dominican Republic for pratically begging to the United Nations to send military troups to calm the situation in Haiti. Oh no, nobody sees that.
Nobody sees the thousands of illegal Haitian women giving birth in Dominican hospitals and Dominican doctors being forced to attend them BY NATIONAL LAW! Oh, nobody sees that!
Nobody sees the thousands of Haitian children attending Dominican tax payers founded public schools, in some cases causing classrooms to be too crowded, but we still accomodate a space for the son/daughter of an illegal Haitian migrant! Oh, but nobody sees that!
People will only calm the anti-Dominican rhetoric once the Dominican flag is lowered and the Haitians flag predominates over the entire island once again.
If that is what their dream is every night they go to sleep, well then keep on sleeping, it's NOT going to happen anytime soon!
-BTW, I'm not anti-Haitian at all. But I am anti-hypocrites who use various forms of racist tactics to gain their pro-Haiti stand!
Do things right and maybe, people will listen!