The "They Invaded Us", bull$hit is just a pretext.
Amen y Aleleuia.
The "They Invaded Us", bull$hit is just a pretext.
So there were no massacres nor cultural genocide?
What kind of "average" Dominican do you hang around?Sure. But that's not in the psyche of the average Dominican.
You miss the point. It's the one-sided nature of modern attacks which is the issue.
Kinda like the eeeeevil rich, Tea Baggers and corp-por-RAY-Shuns?
Gotta go. "Dancing With the Kardashians" is on...
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Sort of like Castro, Chavez, and his replacement Maduro in Venezuela.
Sort of like leaders...:bunny:
If you want to remove all doubt about it being "Racial", all you have to do is see any "Political Cartoon" depicting Haitians in Dominican newspapers.
Black as coal, huge lips, "Bad Hair", stupid, dressed in rags,they use it ALL!
The "They Invaded Us", bull$hit is just a pretext.
Americans LOVE the English, and look how THAT all started!
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Sure. But that's not in the psyche of the average Dominican. If you say it is you're lying and deluded. Wait. Never mind.
I didn't miss any point. First paragraph, I stated what leaders do...it's called politics. The second paragraph I acknowledged the animosity experienced by Dominicans and I asked the OP if this was shared also by Haitians.
Unlike you I live in the DR, my fren.
Anyone ever notice how many black Americans, including MANY on DR1, enjoy the DR because they feel very comfortable here?Everything in that cartoon except for the bolded part is what everyday Hatians in the streets look like, at least the ones I see. Maybe the Haitians in your neck of the woods are light skin, with thin features and wear suits. Am I a racist for describing how the average Haitian looks like?
Ohh please if it was racial like you state, then the black cocolos who arrived here in the late 1800's would been sent back to their islands, and Dominicans would've treated them like ****, and there would be tons of negative stereotype about them. On the contrary these people were quickly assimilated into Dominican culture, and I've only heard positive things about them. I know the race has contributed to the whole antiHatianismo, but unlike what many of you want to present, race is far from being the main caused, and the problems between the two groups is much deeper than that.
And please don't even compare the history between America & Britain to that of DR & Haiti. That's like comparing aples and oranges, actually I doubt any two nations in the new world have had the violent history DR & Haiti have.
Some of you are just full of crap, and know little to no Dominican history. I guess you are right when you said in another coment that we need "el jefe" back, because I assure you that if he were to be alive you and others would not be spitting so much BS about Dominicans.
Dominicans don't walk around talking about being invaded by Haiti in the distant past any more than Americans cry about being invaded by Mexico in 1842. Yet, in both places, there is strong animosity towards the more recent "invasions" of undocumented workers. It's a way to dehumanize the exploited.
While it's not a daily discussion, I assure you that Dominicns DO bring up their history and DO discuss the "invasion."pg said:Dominicans don't walk around talking about being invaded by Haiti in the distant past any more than Americans cry about being invaded by Mexico in 1842.
Oh, puh leeeeeze.pg said:It's a way to dehumanize the exploited.
This is a poor country.
Dominicans don't want haitians sucking up their limited resources. For just one example, medical care for poor Dominicans is limited because a HUGE % is sucked up by illegal Haitians.
You do NOT "live" here. You are a tourist in the DR. You "live" in the states and your time in the DR is very limited.
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Nope, true leaders are not like that.
Unlike some posters, like K-mel, that would propose the Haitians were welcomed with open arms in all parts of the country the facts according to Dominican historians of the time show their was discontent from the very beginning. In fact, the entrance into La Espa?ola by the Haitians in 1822 is referred to "occupation" and "invasion" by Dominican historians.
The 18th century historian Jos? Gabriel Garc?a writes regarding the La Conspiraci?n de Los Alcarrizos to revolt against the Haitians in 1824:
"En febrero de 1824 estuvo a punto de estallar otro movimiento formidable que, fraguado por hombres adictos a Espa?a, ten?a por objeto vitorear al Rey don Fernando VII, y sustituir el pabell?n azul y rojo con el estandarte de Castilla, .."
"El n?mero de comprometidos lleg? a ser tan grande, que de haberse declarado la revoluci?n, habr?a sido dif?cil sofocarla."
Another factor that influenced Boyers occupation/invasion was the very real fact that the Haitians had a very large professional army that were capable of defeating European armies while the Dominicans had none and therefore had little choice in the matter.
Furthermore, the Haitians closed the University of Santo Domingo and robbed the Catholic Church of all it's properties in an attempt to suppress Dominican culture. Worse still is that the very racist Haitian government implemented the same laws they had in their country that forbade while people from having property:
“Ning?n blanco, cual quiera que sea su nacio na lidad podr? poner pie en este terri torio a t?tulo de amo o propie tario”.
With policies like these and worse from the very beginning, including massacres and robbing people of their property and harvests, it is no wonder Dominicans started their independence movement from the beginning.