Afro-Dominicans 🇩🇴
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Decolonization. Destroying internalized anti-blackness. Analyzing Afro-Dominican history on the island and in the United States. Follow for interesting threads!
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@Beats_by_Blue
There was a lice outbreak when I was in 2nd grade, I was scared, the paraprofessional in my class an older black woman told me “honey black people can’t get lice” with a straight face. I’ve never forgotten this.
😂😂😂
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@JDBoost
@JUARANTINE
U can like his music and acknowledge that he’s very much a “gentrification” of Puerto Rican urban music historically and is tone deaf when it comes to cultural appropriation and not even acknowledging BLM.
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@ROUSEYSHIRAl
Yes, it will be a generic white-mestizo Latin-American family will all the tropes and stereotypes and typical immigrant struggles. They will probably have abuela from Mexico and the highly Americanized grandchildren. Episode about the Quinciañera no doubt.
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Dominican Spanish cuts out plurals, uses double negatives, strong contractions and contains several European influences, African words, Taino words, Spanish archaisms, Anglicisms, and urban slangs.
It’s a Spanish creole.
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Why are you bootlicking and bigging up this very small migration?
There are many, many, many more Dominicans of Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian descent than Dominicans of Jewish descent.
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You idiots need to stop pulling out that dumb ass joke this man was brutalized.
Black Dominicans experience racism and are marginalized too. In real life millions of Dominicans identify as black and there are dozens of social justice organizations and academics trying to fight.
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@EdsonDamianJ
The majority of Latin-Americans are mestizos of European and Native American ancestry and lean more European phenotypically.
A lot of you should be checking white I know it hurts but it’s true. For many people this is tricky but for others it’s clear cut with them in denial.
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Just watched some of “In The Heights”.
It’s a pretty inauthentic film beyond color just everything is off and cliched—from the dialogue to the wardrobe.
This is for white folks basically.
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Dominican and Haitian plates be looking identical 🤤
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@tamu02_
I fail to see the correlation.
Kendrick Lamar as a descendant of the African slave trade felt an ancestral connection to this place and went to discover his roots.
Burna Boy has no connection or history tied to American ghettos.
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@Variety
The neighborhood it is set in is Dominican. Go find me a Peruvian in the Heights. 😂
This is an idealization not the reality of Washington Heights. It’s okay all Latinos aren’t united in real life. In some cases there’s even ethnic strife between us. Let’s stop the fantasy.
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@danielaciarpag
People need to understand Latinos are not a monolith. It’s a highly diverse group a third gen mestizo Mexican-American in Arizona isn’t going to vote like a first gen black Dominican-American in NYC who isn’t going to vote like a second gen white Cuban-American in Miami.
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Precisely why the bullshit needs to stop we share too much culture! 🤦🏽♂️
Ce n’est pas du Bachata, ni du Konpa, ni du Meringue :
C’est le Carabinier, la plus ancienne danse créole d’Haïti qui a donné naissance aux Meringue(s)🇭🇹🇩🇴.
Il vit encore mais pour combien de temps encore ?
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@ChezCharde
You believe ALL Africans believed in religion?
I don’t like this stance at all. All peoples have religion to instill values, moral codes, and justify/explain existence but there have always been non-believers in all cultures.
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Lambon
Gracias al presidente
@realDonaldTrump
por la invitacion. Seguimos uniendo lazos para fortalecer nuestra plataforma
@alofokefm
🇩🇴🇺🇸
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This is one of the black practices indigenous to 🇩🇴.
Only in Bani can you find this religious festivity, dance and, musical expression.
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To all my black Dominicans this is how a lot of white and heavily European-dominant mulattoes feel about us deep down and some are as brazen as this guy.
Balaguer vibes. A lot of them just tolerate us under the guise of nationalism on some “they’re our blacks” type shit.
I would trade millions of black Dominicans (dark Dominicans, Dominicans with visibly high afro dna) for 5 Ricans so long as those black Dominicans go to Africa and not PR. I will die on this hill
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@humanerror35
@JDBoost
@JUARANTINE
Yeah, this is after he had been called out repeatedly as it says in the article he stays away from “politics”.
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@GIRBAUDJEANZ
Ehhhh, not all people part of the ADOS movement are xenophobic in their rhetoric and black immigrants need to be mindful of their claims and understand our positioning in the American system. It’s really a complex discussion that requires understanding from both sides.
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She grew up in a context where Dominican was synonymous with “Spanish” or “Latino” and therefore not black it’s a two way street.
Most people do not know this stuff we can talk about it all day from a technical standpoint but colloquially that’s just the thinking unfortunately.
Ice Spice not knowing that Black and Dominican are not mutually exclusive terms while Black Americans weaponize the word "Mexican" when referring to Cardi B just confirmed everything I already knew. We are (culturally) cooked.
Internalized white supremacy is a helluva drug.
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In the 1970’s Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Haitian 🇭🇹 songs could be heard on the radio, there were black fests with leading black Dominican musicians and entertainers, the Senegalese 🇸🇳 ballet performed in Santiago.
All things that would be met with intense xenophobia today.
En la década de los 70’s se celebró en el Estadio Olimpico la fiesta negra, que fue un concierto en honor a la raza negra en el que casi todos los artistas eran negros.
Para esa misma época vino al país el ballet de danzas tribales de Senegal.
Imaginen si eso ocurre ahora.
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The thought that Dominicans deserve to be brutalized by police or to die from natural disasters because of “me no black” or actions of the state that the typical black marginalized Dominican has no control over and/or may not even support is sickening.
Shame on y’all.
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Dominicans in Santiago argue and attempt to stop migratory agents from detaining a Haitian worker much to the annoyance of the nazionalistas who argue they too should be arrested.
Down with antihaitianism and police brutality…
Circunvalación oeste Santiago . Migración recogiendo los haitianos y Dominicanos trataron de impedir que los agentes migratorios se lo lleven esto tiene que parar tienen que llevárselos dominicanos preso lo que interrumpen las labores de los agentes migratorios
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@ginatorres
There are no piragua vendors from Puerto Rico in modern day Washington Heights, Ms. Torres.
Yun-yun vendors from DR, yes. Today’s Washington Heights and the one you grew up in decades ago are different. These nuances matter.
Dominicans do not feel represented by this movie.
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@HispanistaRD
Y esto ahora dique que el dominicano nunca a tenido Afro y todos esos merenguero y sus bandas en los 80’s. 😂
El joven dominicano hoy en dia anda con su Afro blow out, trenzas de todas variedades, Rastas, twisties.
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The anti-blackness of many today is disappointing but this isn’t true.
Dominican slaves were highly rebellious.
From the very first slave revolt of the Americas in 1521 to Santiago Basora’s uprising to ensure the end of slavery after Dominican Independence in 1844.
Every time Dominicans talk they prove they were indeed the most low maintenance easily brainwashed slaves ever. And to his day... The cheapest. Absolutely embarrassing.
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@Hereandthere190
Corny ass Hispanic nationalist.
Only one of those countries is fully Caribbean the rest only have coasts.
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You aren’t a Conquistador.
If you’re white like that I assure your ancestors were Canarian country bumpkins shut the fuck up. 🤣
You are not them, you are not the aristocracy, if you were you wouldn’t have had to flea to Washington Heights.
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Jairo Asencio, a pitcher in Lidom for the Tigres de Licey calls out racist fans of the rival Aguilas Cibaeñas.
Afro-Dominicans are fed up.
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What a shame
PONGAN FECHA Y HORA 🍿 EL MEJOR DE TODOS LOS TIEMPO x ALOFOKE 📺
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@TheeEmpiire
U don’t speak for all Dominicans.
Dominicans and Haitians are both West Indian and Latino countries.
Dominicans and Haitians due to proximity and shared history have more connection on the island than with other Latinos and Caribbean peoples.
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When you win the info war, when you dictate a person’s self-image, and perception you control them.
The same nazionalistas have edited the “People of Dominican Republic” Wikipedia page hell bent on not showing black people.
Let’s take a dive in this thread… 👇🏽
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Just saw Univision in NYC is doing specials for BHM and they highlighted the Garifuna 🇭🇳 community here. Just the word afrodescendia being used on air is showing significant progress.
Pa’ Black History month
#Latinegras
sat with
@lourdeshuep
to talk abt AfroLatinos & the challenges of visibility. This was one of my favorite interviews, I felt like it went beyond the surface & was a fuller story. This aired in
@Telemundo
Feliz
#BlackHistoryMonth
a todos
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@maracharese
@angelicabastien
It’s a film about a neighborhood named Washington Heights in NYC. It is predominantly Dominican and many Dominicans there are Afro-Latinos.
This film casted mostly lighter Puerto Ricans , Cubans, Mexicans and did not capture the culture of the neighborhood well at all.
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@LavishLife243
@Space_fairy_
A lot of Latinos are, the Lebanese were some of the biggest immigrants to Latin America.
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Racist white Dominicans y’all 😂
Así andas nuestra mujeres, blancas, pelo bueno y educadas en nuestro querido pueblo.
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