Cleaning the mess.
In the demographic section it mentions that 51% of the population is mulatto, 46% black, and 2% white; when in reality the actual percentages (once one takes into account the estimated Haitian population in the country and assuming at least that 99% of them are blacks) are closer to 70% mulatto, 20% black, and 10% white.
The most changes has been done in the english version of the article.
But, anyone who fixes the incorrect information being presented there will find their efforts to be in vain since its quickly replaced with the erroneous comments by the same individual - a quick glance at the historial reveals this.
All in all, this is more evidence of the existance of the anti-Dominican crowd who are becoming increasingly noisy lately.
If they only had a sound foundation to support their agenda, but they don't and that's the scary part.
-NALs
Nals, on the Spanish language version, I was the one that placed " 51% Mulatto, 46% Black." in the demographics section. Those are just my own estimates, based on my own experiences seeing DR. The definition of what is a " Mulatto" varies from person to person. To me, Mulatto definition is more strict, somebody looking like Senator Pared Perez. This is my view, since I'm of Cibae?o decent, and that population is what I considered to be the real Mulatto, not somebody looking like Sergio Vargas. Overall, the concensus is that over half the population is Mulatto. 14% black, 11% black, is too embarassing for me to say, I see that as an ammunition for these anti-dominican bigots to attack us and always accussing us of " being in denial". For me, is just a reasonable demographic estimates.
Anyways, I don't want this to be locked prematuraly because i'm discussing racial matters, so I'm moving to the point. I'm not an administrator on Wiki, and the Spanish-language is not hijacked. So if you want to add other numbers ,you can. It is what is called a neutral point-of-view.
On the other hand, on the English language Article,
it is a totally different ball game. The administrator ( presumably a Haitian, based on his Haitiphilic slant and other evidences)
is abusing his powers to censor any different point of view. He has blocked me several times, because i'm resisting his biased agenda. So he is like a god basically, it is a no-win situation there. That's why i brought it to the attention of this forum.
He deliveratately " cherry-picked" the source that he placed himself from Silvio-Torres Saillant that says " around 90% of the Dominicans are Blacks and Mulattoes" (again, Saillant's own estimates, but acknowledging DR's mixed-race heritage, nevertheless) and placed it as " 90% is of African decent or has African roots" , as to make DR look like Zambia, Congo. He has a problem with DR's mixed-race heritage and its European heritage all-together.
This idiot even told me that " He can't put " mixed-race european and african decent" because "
That is an English-language page, and in America, mixed with Black is just Black". :cross-eye: Go figure ! and just locked the piece.
That is a far-cry from what I added on the Spanish version. Anyways, I know that Wikipedia is not taken seriously because of that, I just brought it to the attention of this site as to make people aware of anti-dominican propaganda flowing around in the internet and do something about it.
that they have a real government too for sure.