Hermanos y Hermanas,
It's the first time I'm writting here. Yo soy Yamile, una negra sabrosa de Montreal (Canada). I'm 24, working full-time for a cell phone compagny and studying part-time to become a language teacher (french and spanish mainly). I'm Haitian (yes! you read it well: H A I T I A N A
) pero tambien Dominicana from my grand-mother (una Dominicana orgullosa de su sangre como nadie) and Afro-Cuban from my grand-father (who was mxed Cuban-Haitian-born in Cuba,raised in Haiti).
I've been to DR and know enough about my dominican blood to be able to talk here.
Let's set the record straight: I'm not here to have friends
I'll speak up my mind! I will hurt some of you with my words, sorry, but I'm talking the thruth.
I've been here since 4-5 weeks, looking and reading the post; saying to myself sometimes: "Good idea!" "Well said!" but often also saying: "Que vaina!" "What a stupid! No se puede!" etc....
Something I didn't get was the way you...us...Dominicans were talking about Black peoples especially los Haitianos.
-...they are Africanos... (like we weren't!)
-......most of them look African....
-...our African blood came from them....(que vaina, no comments)
and oh yes! my favorite
-...we (dr's) are descents of Tainos and Spaniards mainly... Hehehehe INCREIBLE!
Did you guys ever notice that peoples never say "Afro-Dominicans" when they are refering to us? Strange,no? When we know that they use to say Afro-Cuban,Afro-Colombian,Afro-Venezolano/a.
WHY? DIGAME!!!!
Because the word Dominican say it all. Yes we...you are (in a whole) lighter than the Haitians, the Jamaicans, the Barbadians but a population of 75% of Mulattoes and 11% of Blacks (which comes to a big...big...86% of "Coloured" people) IS Black in the head of any North American or any European that you will ask.
We...You Dominicans are Blacks; 86% is not a vain number but we have la locura de ser Blancos/as because our neighbors (Haitians) who are oooooh-so dark and ugly
make us believe that we are, in a certain way, a Caucasian sub-division, sub-class. Hahahahaha!
(not finish I'll be back...)