He stated at a meeting in NYC, "Y si Obama que vino de ?frica y naci? por all? es Presidente, por qu? no puede llegar uno de ustedes, que es una mezcla m?s graciosa que Obama." This sounds like a racial insult to me.
He stated at a meeting in NYC, "Y si Obama que vino de ?frica y naci? por all? es Presidente, por qu? no puede llegar uno de ustedes, que es una mezcla m?s graciosa que Obama." This sounds like a racial insult to me.
"Esto no tiene madre - Lleg? Pap?" is funny - but the whole Pap? thing is precisely what's wrong about Dominican politics. The electorate is the helpless, dependent child and the politician is the all powerful father, the provider. Paternalism - literally.Y'all getting all bent up over that when the "Llego Papa" billboards are plastered all around the country?!?
Who the hell uses "Yo' Daddy's here" as a political slogan?
SHALENA
"Esto no tiene madre - Lleg? Pap?" is funny - but the whole Pap? thing is precisely what's wrong about Dominican politics. The electorate is the helpless, dependent child and the politician is the all powerful father, the provider. Paternalism - literally.
He stated at a meeting in NYC, "Y si Obama que vino de ?frica y naci? por all? es Presidente, por qu? no puede llegar uno de ustedes, que es una mezcla m?s graciosa que Obama." This sounds like a racial insult to me.
He stated at a meeting in NYC, "Y si Obama que vino de ?frica y naci? por all? es Presidente, por qu? no puede llegar uno de ustedes, que es una mezcla m?s graciosa que Obama." This sounds like a racial insult to me.
"Esto no tiene madre - Lleg? Pap?" is funny - but the whole Pap? thing is precisely what's wrong about Dominican politics. The electorate is the helpless, dependent child and the
politician is the all powerful father, the provider. Paternalism - literally.
Jaysus! I am going to be fairly non-PC with this so read on.
In the Dominican mentality, especially in NYC and other areas, as well as here in the Dominican Republic, they have a deep-set prejudice against negroid features. "African" to them is negative. Color is not the issue. So, and I am being brief, when Hipolito truly insults Obama in a very Dominican way by calling him African, the Dominican audience understands it. They get it.
And when he encourages his audience of Dominicans, he also mentions their mulatto/mestizo/whatever as being beautiful and something that would help one of them become president of the US...If he (Obama) who is ugly can do it, one of you, who are beautiful, can too!
That is all he is saying. Don't go reading a lot more into this. If it is racism, it is Dominican racism, and how are you going to stop that? You should know that no Dominican ever talks of blacks. No, they talk of "morenos" ....this is another facet of Dominican racism.
I think that, like the Junot Diaz book, if you don't know understand the players and the culture, his comments certainly cannot be correctly interpreted. Hipolito can't be a racist!! He is Dominican and he knows it!!
Of course if you put his comments into English, well, yes they were so politically incorrect. So what? He was not talking to a US audience but to a Dominican audience.
This came up in class today and the young men and women understood this quite well.
(You want racism? Look at Obama's launch of African Americans for Obama, it's on Youtube)
HB
Today Hipolito was at PUCMM. He was coherent, brilliant and on point. His one slip came when he mentioned Brugal, Barcel'o and forgot to mention Bermudez!!! Oh well......