and mountainannie, its refreshing to hear your POV, honestly. i must admit one of my pet peeves is people trying to tell me i'm black and stop sayin i'm mixed when people look at me and ask "what are you?". it happens alot. but they say blah blah african americans are mixed too, blah blah but see we're good negroes, we just call ourselves black. you just tryina be special by claimin other ****....its like screeching brakes for me.
first off, if i can look in the mirror and at my family and see the asian, lebanese, african, spaniard and arawak influences quite clearly, you cannot tell me who and what i am from your ignorant, uneducated guess. swear to gawd my grandmothers side all look straight up arawak and they are from the deep country where africans where known to have children with arawaks as they all hid away from the spanish.
i'm willing to bet money thats what she is.
and everything else is present in our families culture, much like anyone else.
im just going to say it: dominicans DO have a very different and special experience when it comes to race. sorry if that hurts some folks. its the truth.
we arent the same. similar but def not the same. why is this so unfathomable?
why is it so hard to see that amongst us, we dont have different culture according to our skintones, like you. its all the same for everyone. theres extreme colorism but class rules all. if youre a rich, educated black, youre practically white lol
unlike in the u.s. you wont get rich blacks being pulled over simply for being black. youre just rich.
that is why some think theres "no racism".
its COLORISM.
just as theres colorism amongst african americans and brazilians. white is right. when it comes to features: the more european, the better. second best is indigenous. african is simply UGLY UGLY UGLY unless its about a nice, round booty and hips.
dominicans have been mixing all nillywilly since the late 1400's. no one ever said we couldnt, instead it was encouraged. and now its 2009.
after arab, euros, blacks, asians, natives, etc....how am i accurately going to call myself "black" and thats it.
its so damn complicated, i would rather just say i am DOMINICAN but instead people want the whole run down. i give it to them. you can take it as you will.
first off, if i can look in the mirror and at my family and see the asian, lebanese, african, spaniard and arawak influences quite clearly, you cannot tell me who and what i am from your ignorant, uneducated guess. swear to gawd my grandmothers side all look straight up arawak and they are from the deep country where africans where known to have children with arawaks as they all hid away from the spanish.
i'm willing to bet money thats what she is.
and everything else is present in our families culture, much like anyone else.
im just going to say it: dominicans DO have a very different and special experience when it comes to race. sorry if that hurts some folks. its the truth.
we arent the same. similar but def not the same. why is this so unfathomable?
why is it so hard to see that amongst us, we dont have different culture according to our skintones, like you. its all the same for everyone. theres extreme colorism but class rules all. if youre a rich, educated black, youre practically white lol
unlike in the u.s. you wont get rich blacks being pulled over simply for being black. youre just rich.
that is why some think theres "no racism".
its COLORISM.
just as theres colorism amongst african americans and brazilians. white is right. when it comes to features: the more european, the better. second best is indigenous. african is simply UGLY UGLY UGLY unless its about a nice, round booty and hips.
dominicans have been mixing all nillywilly since the late 1400's. no one ever said we couldnt, instead it was encouraged. and now its 2009.
after arab, euros, blacks, asians, natives, etc....how am i accurately going to call myself "black" and thats it.
its so damn complicated, i would rather just say i am DOMINICAN but instead people want the whole run down. i give it to them. you can take it as you will.