(back with my chocolate bar
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I look Black. I may have long baby fine curly hair and fine lips, my curvious hips and mi piel de color canela quemada (like my granma loves to say) speaks for itself...Black...Descent of Africans brought in the Caribbeans 400 to 450 years ago (talking about our island). I...We...You...can't hide what is obvious. So many of us...you...were been raised thinking that the words Black...Haitian or Africa were curses.
. This stupidity have to stop. I'm talking because I am from both bloods and live this imbecilidad every day.
My cousin,Amarilis, cannot claim that she is White. She is green-eyed, she is very, really fair-skinned, she have "la nariz fina" BUT she have kinky hair. My little sister cannot claim that she is Spaniard....She have straight hair (no perm), fine-bone "caucasian-peoples" body BUT she have juicy lips and a large nose. Africa is in her face ,like it is in my skin color and in my cousin's hair. We are Black, Afro-Latinas. No matter how straight and fine is our hair, how light and fair is our skin and even how tiny is our nalga
. We are hijos/as de Africanos! De Blancos y de Indios (i doubt this one...) tambien lo se eso PERO de Negros tambien...We tend to avoid this part too often I think....
The funny with us Dr's is that when Africa have missed to have a part of our feature hse got another one. I have yet to meet a "TRUE" Caucasian-Dominican. Not an Italian or Spanish looking Dominican that every one calls Blanquito/a because they are the lightest 2 miles around.
No a real straight-blond hair blue eyes or red hair green eyes with the Caucasian body and the complete face features. africa is always there somehow...
I knew a White-Dominicana (Angela) we were working together. She was from La Romana her maternal grand-parents had immigrated there from Italia, her dad was a trigueno-kind of Dominican.Blue eyes,straight blond hair, fine face features she was often mistaked for a French-Canadian from face you could make the differences but when you looked closely to the body you could spell the word: NEGRA. All the curves were there, name it no one missing.
She was always making jokes about how a White woman can have that big ... Hahahaha! ...a good Dominicana this girl....Thinking about our many laughs...
(hands hurt I'll be right back for part IV)