Incurable morons that they are. They think that the one drop rule applies everywhere, when in fact there is, has been, and perhaps will always be a caste division over there, between the descendants of the old mulatto/affranchi class of the colonial times and the mass of the descendants of the ex-slaves.
I don't even think it has much to do with 'one-drop-ruling' him, but its simply one more twist that is added whenever the Haitian migration issue pops up.
The DR must be the only country in the world that for centuries even the foreigners said that the Dominican population is among the least racist societies anywhere. Back then the white population was significant, which makes these claims even more interesting. At least documents from as far back as the 1700's written by foreigners that either visited or lived in the Spanish territory, and then Dominican territory after independence, have all made the same claim regarding race and color relations. McKenzie, a foreign diplomat stationed in Port-au-Prince in the 1820s (the time when the Dominican population was subjected to the 22 years Haitian Domination) toured all of Haiti (which back then was the entire island) and in his written account of this massive in person tour titled 'Notes on Haiti', he clearly mentions; first, the very cordial race relations he witnessed among what he called the Spanish Haitians (aka, Dominicans) or people of the east despite the white population being evidently numerous and in many places an absolute majority while the bulk of the rest of the population being a mixed race with a predominance of very light skin; secondly, he made a comparison with the racial issues he witnessed back in Port-au-Prince between the mulattoes and the blacks; and, lastly, he also commented the widespread distaste in which all Dominicans regardless of color or social class regarded the Haitians, which at that time consisted of a few upper class mulatto families from Port-au-Prince that settled in various parts of the DR, the mulatto and black military generals, and the tends of thousands of black Haitian soldiers that were stationed in all the major towns.
When McKenzie was describing his treck from La Vega to Santo Cerro (or maybe it was from Santo Cerro to Cevico, can't remember but I do have the book at home, so maybe I will cite it later today and post it here), his guide was a black Dominican and McKenzie asked him once why did the Dominican people held the Haitians with such disdain. The first time the guide remained silent, but the second time the only thing the guide said was 'son muy bravos' which translates to 'they are too brutal.' People should keep in mind that in the 1820's many people that witnessed the bloody Haitian invasion of 1805 (with the widespread torture and massacres the Dominican civilian population was subjected to by the invading Haitian army) and the invasion of 1801, and of course the invasion of 1822; was still fresh in their minds, many of these people losing family members, friends, and acquaintances in that brutal assault. The Haitian army tended to mistreat the population where ever they were, this was true on the Dominican side as it was on the Haitian side of the island; but, while in Haiti the Haitian army's actions were seen as the ways of the army, among the Dominicans it was seen as the ways of the Haitians because the army was the bulk of the Haitian presence on the eastern part of the island.
Like I said before, the DR must be the only country in the world that for centuries even the foreigners said race and color relations are as amicable as they can be, and now there's a small group of people that want to make the DR seem as if its some sort of South Africa or the USA under segregation. Almost every country that has the image of being historically racist has a long documented history regarding this, except for the DR.
We all know that the pressure for the DR to deal with the Haitian mess is what's behind all of this. They are looking for a way to twist the Dominican arm and force the Dominicans into something most Dominicans don't want.
With all of this said, saying that the DR and Dominicans in general aren't racist doesn't mean there are no racist people out there. Moreau de Saint Mery, a French from Martinique that lived in Cap Francais (today Cap Haitian) even said back in the 1790's, and I paraphrase from memory:
The prejudice of color, so prevalent in the colonies of other European countries and that fixes a bar between the whites and the free people of color, is almost unknown in the Spanish part of the island of Santo Domingo.
The 'almost' implies that while the vast majority of Dominicans weren't racist, there was a handful that were. So even back then in a population that he described as
'the free people of color are few compared to the size of the white population, but very numerous compared to the size of the slave population' there were a few people with racist ideas. None the less, a few doesn't mean most or even all.
Ironically, of the two countries on the island its Haiti that has a very long documented history of intrenched racism, not only the mulatto vs black issues after independence but even back in colonial times with the French basically creating a racially segregated society. In 1861, John Parkhill even said in his book "Soulouque and His Empire" that while in Haiti the French placed legislation that prohibited mixed marriages, made it difficult for slaves to be emancipated, and
'openly established the prejudice of color as a means of policing,' he goes on to contrast by mentioning that at the same time the Spaniards
'all was organized to facilitate the fusion of the two races.' Then he went on, and I'm paraphrasing from memory, to say
'Spanish customs, with their tendencies to practical equality... also favored intermixture; and local circumstances facilitated this inlfuence in manners.'
Despite the very long and well documented history of intrenched racism in Haiti, first under French rule and then under their own rule; today its the DR that is crucified under an assumption of a long history of racism that simply doesn't passes the test when all the historical documents are put on the table. Somehow no one cares of Haiti's past, but everyone is now interested in a assumption of the Dominican past that doesn't lives up to the evidence.
Again, we all know that what is behind all of this is the desire among some to have the DR and Dominican carry Haiti on our shoulders, as if Dominicans are responsible for the mess that englobes the western third of the island. If Haiti was a normal functioning country, even within the Developing World standards, I'm sure this insistence on presenting the DR as a racist country would had never been created. Haiti is a huge problem and no one wants to fix it, not even the Haitians themselves.
