You 2 need something more important to do! Shame on you 😂go get educated on the History of 🇩🇴 Go collect some money to help the People of Haiti....now there is a plan!!!!
DNA evidence shows that a large proportion of the current populations of the Greater Antilles have Taíno ancestry, with 61% of Puerto Ricans, up to 30% of Dominicans, and 33% of Cubans having mitochondrial DNA of Taíno origin. You need more education black man
@@twinshangoutkenya The young lady speaking is not Dominican, she identified herself as saying that one of her parents is Dominican, and she is an American by nationality, she is not Dominican, she does not know our culture and our history, and she has no right to speak for us or about us. To be Dominican you have to know the culture, know our history, and feel identified with what we are. And we are not black, and we are not African. We are an ethnic group that developed on the island hundreds of years ago, Dominican is our nationality, Dominican is our ethnicity, America is our continent. Nobody has to disrespect our history, nobody is going to erase our identity. Wearing braids and tanning does not make you African, nor black, we respectfully ask you not to use our name to make money, you are not part of us, we have nothing to do with it.
Africans identify themselves by religion and ethnicity, hahaha, and now you have the audacity to take Dominicans in your mouth, people who have nothing to do with you, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Nevertheless everybody does not process knowledge in the Anglo Colonizers artifical racial categorical construct. You think 600 years ago so called Africans contemplated themselves as Black, or do you think vikings thought Russians were their kin just because of shared white similitude. A quick reading of the Bible shows primitive humans did not contemplate themselves in the Colonizers artifical racial categorical construct.
@@Eugene-pt5lu ?? Ok, so what? The brutal , murderous and devasting realities of colonialism, skin color based racism, and the atrocities that came with it? Didn't exist then. So how in the fuqqck can the mindsets and worldviews that came from it? Be felt, known or accounted for? When it didn't exist? And how does anything you said? Take away from Everything that's now here? Because of it? In other words,...WTF are You talking about?
Dominicans, like Puerto Ricans can be a mixture of a European, African and Indigenous. Some are more African, European, or indigenous, not necessarily equally. It’s true that they tend to use phrases that identify people as negro, blanco, etc. but that is less about race and more about color, because trigueño is not a race, it’s a shade of color.
I’m Dominican 🇩🇴 I’m not black. No we are not black. You take 100 Puerto Rican women. 100 Dominican women… and 100 black African American women or black women. How many black women can’t grow hair. We are a mixture of European indigenous and African….. while black Americans are mostly African with some white. So she needs to take that knowledge somewhere else.
IF A DOMINICAN'S COLOR IS BLACK, WHY NOT SAY BLACK DOMINICANS. NOT THAT THEY HAVE TOO, BUT IF YOU GO TO THE US, YOU WILL BE IDENTIFIED AS BLACK IF YOUR SKIN IS BLACK. THEY CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT AS LONG AS YOU STAY IN YOUR COUNTRY. I WONDER WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN BEING CALLED A NAME GIVEN TO SLAVES PEOPLE AND CALLING IT GOOD NOW, BUT THE COLOR THE WHITE MAN GAVE. NEGRA WAS CHANGE TO NEGRO. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE TO BE CALLED COLORED OR NEGRO. JUST WONDERING.
This is a very loaded subject. Most Dominicans have more European DNA than African, yet we don't deny our African heritage. We are not "black" because we don't subscribe to the racial ideology of the US, and we also aren't "white" because that label didn't even exist when the Dominican Republic was settled . From the onset there was heavy mixing of the different populations on the island (Latins, natives, africans). We werent "colonized" , we were the colonizers. The reason you want to categorize us that way is because of your "one drop rule" which is non existent in Latin America. Those ideas of race were promoted by Northern european/German colonies of the north. Latin people (Italians, Spanish, portuguese) have always had color if you study the history of the Mediterranean. I support the empowerment of the African diaspora, I'm a big fan of Cheikh Anta Diop. I know we don't seem to fit neatly into your paradigm but ya'll need to ease up off us because that shit is getting corny already. God bless the Human race.
The USA is still using the one drop rule system. They called Barack Obama our "first Black president" and I put the quotations because Barack Obama is not monoracial. Barack Obama is a mulatto. He is half Black half White. Why can't Barrack Obama claim his White heritage? Black people don't got White family members in their family. Barack Obama got White family members in his family. The US needs to get rid of the one drop rule system because it is ridiculous and does not make any sense at all.
I had a Cape Verdian friend who was born in Portugal. When we attended high school in America she insisted she was not black, she was different from AA. People attacked her but I am AA and she was one of my best friends. It was clear to me we had very different cultures. We grew up speaking different languages, eating different foods and in different family structures. I realized what she was trying to express is she was from a culture that was not AA...but when we were attacked by racists she was the first to stand up against it. I think we could all be more open minded.
@emmanuelmontperous3537, as in other Hispanic American identities with diverse ethnicities together, the truth is that in Hispanic America there is no culture determined exclusively by your ethnicity. A Caribbean Dominican can be anything from black to white, to give an example.
I love the DR, it’s a fact they don’t live in the daily black and white sickness plp live in the usa. It’s too much to handle for plp in the usa as we talk “race” (skin color) 24/7. In fact plenty of plp make a living dividing plp on skin color. Give it up. Live Nd let live. God bless the DR and its wonderful plp.
@user-bn8qf9sb2c, as in other Hispanic American identities with diverse ethnicities together, the truth is that in Hispanic America there is no culture determined exclusively by your ethnicity. A Caribbean Dominican can be anything from black to white, to give an example.
Dominicans are a mixture of Spaniards, Taino indians, and Africans... therefore we are mestizo and we do not have a race that defines us, what define us and makes us a Nation is our culture. Therefore if we said that we were black we would be denying our Spanish and Taino heritage.
What’s that got to do with them being black. A English person that is mixed with A white looking arub, & a white looking Armenian will be identified as what? Remember black & white are constructs. Yet people love to erase their blackness.
I don't know why people care if some of them don't identify as black. Dominicans are a mix of different ethnicities. Overall, just remember who named us black, the white man named us black! and we're fighting over who's black or who's not black. It's embarrassing.
😂😂😂 Stupidest comment ever. Black implies melanin content. There's NO such thing as white, but melanin deficiency, a disease. Your argument is really, I don't identify as melanated but as mixed with the melanin deficient, implying you have a deficiency. 😂😂
Ok so the YT man named us Black. We also live in a world that is controlled by YT supremacy. We all know how Black peoples are treated worldwide especially in America. Someone saying that they are not Black they’re other is separating ones self from the group in a failed attempt to escape the consequences of being Black. It shows that you wanna identify with the oppressive dominant society.
NO , it is not embarrassing because people need to know the truth. All the Caribbean islands relative come from slaves. African slaves worked in the Sugarcane fields,, tobacco fields, cotton fields and just about anything else that you can think of.
Being black and proud makes you a racist. If you get bent out of shape over some white dude from 100 years ago being in a the Klan then you have no right to be Black and Proud. Its amazing how someone like MLK can exist, then right after everyone goes into racist mode.
As a dominican myself who is afro latino knows his roots and have asked questions to my grand aunts and grand mother and my aunts and uncles and my own dad... ALOT of dominican are just ignorant and choose to be ignorant in not wanting to know about their roots and their history
No, it's because the Dominican Republic is a racist society and they have the notion that if they accepted their African identity that it's make then less acceptable in the society and because of that they ignorantly rejecting their true identity
The problem with this mindset is dangerous? Understand this get caught in the white area in the country and you will find out? Your just a nigga with a accent! Stop the madness. Or maybe I can translate in Español?
I can't believe people are missing what that guy was saying and to refute the joke that Godfrey was saying on Vladtv. As a Black man, born and raised in NYC with Hispanic blood, when I say I am Black, it's not my skin color but my CULTURE. I was raised in a Black Household-food, music, diction, clothing-you name it. When my Dominican barber of 20 years say he's NOT black, he's saying I am not not Black in Culture, although the police may call him black or Society as a whole. The ironic thing is we also live in a society where I have heard and seen many times, people get questions on their blackness 🤦♂it's happen to me. "Oh you're Black but you're light-skin so it's different." So when a Dominican or PR or Cuban says they are not Black they're not Being black is more than just the color of your skin.
We consider ourselves as Dominicans because we are a very mixed culture. And we are an independent country. We acknowledge our very mixed heritage. We celebrate our own culture that comes from very different places. Our food is the proof of that. We take the Africans beat and evolve it into what is now a merengue, bachata. What can be more black than how we behave, dance. Party. We celebrate our influences but we already have 500 years of history being a mixed country. Thats why we say Dominican
Pero tu ve esas 2 hermanas africanas que hicieron este video, están intentando a poner la imagen que nosotros nos vemos igual que ellos africanos 😂😂 todo el mundo puede ver la diferencia
Why do Dominicans act like black Americans are not mixed? We are, and just because most black Americans look more Sub-Saharan African than European & Indigenous does not change that fact. Bottom line is to a white person, if you look black, you will be seen as black in America.
@@Ozama1221 No soy Dominicana pero me molesta que estas personas no respeten el derecho de los Dominicanos de auto definirse como les de la santa y regalada gana. Nunca he visto a un Latinoamericano pretendiendo dictarle a un Africano su identidad. Por favor, un poquito más respeto. Parte del problema es que hay Dominicanos que crecieron en los Estados Unidos y han adoptado la cultura Afroamericana, con su correspondiente obsesión de ver el racimo en todo.
I went to D.R. 5 times Cuba 5 times Mexico 3 times, Barbados, Costa Rica, Haiti, SAN Andreas, Panama and on the second day everyone thought I was from there I was happy because I knew that my tan was looking good. I am Polish with olive skin and dark eyes and hair Polish people think that I’m lying about being Polish bc I don’t have the blond hair and blue eyes even though everyone in my family does. But if someone says that I’m Russian or Ukrainian or oh it’s the same thing hell no it’s not the same thing and I get mad but it’s not because of the skin colour it’s about how the Russian and Ukrainian people treated us so when D.R. people say that they are Dom. I think that they are just proud
When a Dominican say I am not black is a cultural thing not a racial thing. As a nation our DNA is about 60% African and 35% European. It happens that every time this people make a video they question ignorant people.
Hello girls, as a Dominican I will explain to you in a clear and educational way, it should be noted that the girls in the tik tok videos were raised in the US, where they have a different doctrine regarding this but want to impose it on other countries reluctantly, 100 years before the English arrived in the US, the Spanish were already here, and a process called miscegenation took place, where natives, blacks and whites mixed (something that did not happen in the US) what happened? that the result of these mixtures was given a different name for each one due to their phenotype and genotypes, the mixture between blacks and whites were called mulattos, the whites with natives, criollos and the natives with blacks, zambos, and here is the origin of everything, then returning to the present day, a Dominican black thanks to miscegenation is not pure African, he has high European percentages, and the majority of mulattoes have more percentages of DNA that are more European than African, but what happens is that when a Dominican goes to the US he does not like to be classified the same as African Americans because in the country there is no such division of race, we are all one regardless of skin color unlike the US which did have racial problems and this is where this origin comes from with this doctrine, here we do not deny our African or European roots, what happens is that the US has a culture and obsession with racial division and wants to export those cultures to our countries, and therefore those girls raised in the US end up indoctrinated only with that point of view, I hope I was clear, greetings!
That makes no sense because most African Americans are also mixed with white! I have 30% European blood and also some Native American. I’m black. I look black. At the end of the day you are black. For example Obama cannot go around saying he’s not black because that’s just going to make him look insane! There’s a mental illness involved here!
Mmm I call bullshit😂 miscegenation actually did happen in America and all though there are a lot of mixed people in the DR and these racial categories do exist, there also a lot of black Dominican that are majority African dna who are almost 50/50 and just as popular as the high mixed race percentage in the DR. I’ve met Dominicans who look like they could’ve been my family members (me being a dark skinned black American) and I’ve seen vlogs of people going to the DR and it’s clear there are many black folks there so this whole “everyone is just mixed and has majority European DNA in the DR” is highly exaggerated. Also, why do y’all deny the racism and the anti-blackness in Dominican culture that’s heavy within y’all country? Y’all make it seem like racism is just a thing only Americans experience but if that were the case you wouldn’t have something like “mejorar la raza” or that awful president from the past name Trujillo who specifically wanted to erase African culture and only enforce European Spanish influence.
@@jailynjackson7867 No, miscegenation is not bullsh*t, because when the Anglo-Saxons were massacring all the natives, the Hispanics were already mixing with the indigenous people, the slavery of blacks in Latin America was not as cruel as it was in the Anglo-Saxon countries, while in the US interracial marriage was prohibited since the 1950s, here whites and blacks have mixed since the 1600s, when I tell you that here everyone is a mixture and yet the European percentage is the majority, I speak to you with data from many studies carried out here, whenever you want I will quote them to you, just as you have seen Dominicans who look like you, it does not mean that they are the majority of the population, but how ignorant "I have seen some DR vlogs" and by seeing them you made the geneological studies of an entire country, what a genius!😂 You guys always want to see everything only with yours magnifying glass, just because your country has been one of the most racist in humanity, does not mean that the other ones are the same, here we have had black presidents almost 200 years before the US elected one, who Trujillo was racist, there is no reason to generalize that we are all racists, you always want to change the narratives in your favor, stop being ignorant and do a little research
I don't believe we need to put western European made definitions of race from people of other countries. I never call Dominicans black just Dominican and most I've met in nyc at least look more mixed than black anyways. Same for East Africans. I just identify them by their country bc why in the world would a westerner like myself tell people with their own identity what they are. People used to identify on tribes and I'm in more agreement with that.
Obama is mixed, nobody has ever said white or mixed president. Let's say a Dominican girl is mixed, most black people in USA are mixed due to ra**. J Cole is mixed technically. He isn't classified as a white rapper. If you walk around like Wesley Snipes talking about "but I have white blood in my family somewhere" then you definitely hate the black side in you. Dominicans celebrate Columbus - it's a major holiday there. They refer to Haiti liberating them from slavery as an invasion and attack on their nation, because in their hearts, they are wanna Spaniards. A bunch of sudacas who dislike blackness.
There is no denying that Dominicans are either black, native white or of various mixtures. The problem is when those willfully deny their African hereditary.
There are 20 countries in East Africa, and only those in the horn countries (and certainly not all the people there even) have ad-mixture. These two Kenyan content creators are also East African as Kenya is in East Africa, again one of the 20 countries in that region. And many of them can fit comfortably in the western, southern and central regions of Africa as well. Even in west Africa there are diverse phenotypes.
Whether you want to use a word or not it doesn’t matter. When people see an Asian they see an asian they might not be able to guess his or her country but they know they’re Asian. Even in Dr there’s Asians that are Dominican and when other Dominican see them they say chino (Chinese) cus they know what they see.
USA Congress/leaders >Europe Leaders = Highly Complex Money Laundering allows them to have more money to blow, really a endless source of money (How Do They Cover It Up?: Well war, sacrifice life of land and people, lie, steal, create villains, make you feel like it's nothing you can do through a complex yet subtle manner and etc... Also we can't forget the gains and head start the got from slavery, plus the horrors that followed after slaver. Why you think USA really sending all that money to these other countries, that money get split and sent so many ways and it happens in states in the country on smaller scales.
Godfrey kow key wishes he was Dominican it's like those girls that have the ultimate crush on you they will argue with you and obsess about you believe me I know
"black" is already a problematic word and it came from the western social construct. This is to describe anyone who looks African or like they have African features. Irregardless of language or ethnicity. It's a blanket term used to generalize. But people outside of the states can find it confusing because they may connect the term with American culture.
that's what i was getting out of it earlier in the video too that there so much nay say from dominicans against it because of what it may mean to them vs what is means to us in America.
I'm dominican. I'm 53% european, 38% african, and the rest indiginous taino. I consider myself mulatto, and that usually the description for dominicans with similar dna. The majority of dominican population is described as mulatto.
3:35 she doesn't know her Dominican history. Spaniards mixed with Taino women from the beginning. Enriquillo, the first Taino to lead a rebellion against Spaniards, was half Basque. The year was 1519. Enriqullo was victorious in 1533. Enriquillo's wife was the grand daughter of Taina Princess Anacaona. Enriquillo's wife was half Taina and half Spanish. The Spanish had a term for Taino women who married Spaniards . They were called "mujeres de isla." The facts are these, the Spanish crown initially prohibited intermarriage but couldn't resist human nature. Those single Spaniards hooked up with the Tainas. Miguelico Diaz de Aux was the first mestizo (son of a Spaniard and a Taina) on record. He was born 1496. This lady might be well intentioned but shes projecting the American experience on the Island of Española.
It is because she is just running her mouth and making a profit distorting our nama, she is an American with a Dominican parent,so she said. She does not know one thing about us, about our history, and the abuse our people suffer from our neighbors.
Its called a byword👈👈, literally our enemies name us black , and my people won't stop and think that there's anything strange about that? Deuteronomy 28:-37 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Yes and we are right, when a Dominican in the USA, tell you, im not black , it means, i dont belong to the black culture, the afroamerican culture, I belong to the Hispanic, to the latinos....
There's no such race as Dominican. It's an island. Just like Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba. The founder of Dominican Republic was mulatto. Juan Pablo Duarto
@mont7481 funny how you liked your own comment... yes we are mulattos, visibly mixed race people with evenly mixed DNA, going back centuries and generations, mixed especially to this degree is NOT black or white, we are our own thing, mixed is its own thing, historically in DR and other spanish speaking countries there was heavy mixing, not like Jamaica, Haiti, US south, where the dominate black population was segregated... also his name was Duarte, if u going to say it say it correctly
@mont7481 mixed race mulatto are NOT black. Dominicans are mixed, visibly and evenly mixed since the 1600s, there was far more mixing in Spanish speaking countries.
We Dominicans aren't Black as in African American black or even African from Africa. Our culture is way too mixed to identify it as one. We were colonized. We identify with Cuba, Puerto Rico, we share very similar histories. This obsession with Dominicans and what they are is just stupid to me. I'm Dominican and no one has ever confused me or mistook me for black. Just stop with the obsession and nonsense.
Some so call African-American don't consider themselves African or black either it's made up term. Some of us consider naming ourselves American or some are Indians. People from Cuba, Dominicans ECT don't come to the USA if you don't want to be label black sad to say.
@@BRKS627right…….. Bc your black ass is native Americans….. ninja you came from Africa. Unless you’re an native American. You have no right to tell someone to not….. come here
Most people don't call people black just because they are dominican. They call people that look like they are of African decent black. My problem with I'm not black im dominican stuff is that race and nationality are Two separate things and it also assumes that other groups that acknowledge african ancestry aren't mixed as well. For instance there are mexicans that identify as indigenous. Ive met a lot of them and they dont say "im not indigenous im mexican"I dont know too many groups that their only identity is their national identity. You can say I'm dominican and acknowledge spanish and african ancestry. its fine to acknowledge all parts of whatever you are.
@@macalloway1that's exactly what we do, Brother. I am Dominican and I consider myself mixed.we don't talk about race that much, Neither we care. The thing that we don't understand is why a country with so different skins colors is wanted to be call just black. It is like calling the US a black country because they have black people. It doesn't make sense. Before you say blabla bla you'll black. That's no true we are diverse and I'm telling you with knowledge of the case as a real Dominican 30 years living in the country, with family of all colors you can imagine, from black dark tone to white blonde hair people with blue eyes and we are all dominicans.
@@pedroabrahampolancobeltran4382You answered your own question. Why would a country with so many skin colors want to be black? Because that is our heritage. That's what we were called ever since we got to America. That's what our culture develop separately as. Our soul food is black culture, hip hop, r&b, jazz, rock n roll all of the inventions we made are black inventions.. if you want to be super technical Dominicans were called black to even the natives were reclassified as black but since you have your own ethnicity to me your not black. You are however a Negro or negroid according to anthropology because our genes are dominant in those other genes are taken over by negroid genes. That why you're usually isnt brittle and stringy and why you have dark skin and fuller features.
I am not white and I am not black either, we dominicans know that... and in that equation the most important race in America is being left out, the one that was here thousands of years before the whites and the blacks arrived on this part of the world (the brown Indians). Of course our skin color is darker than white (white plus 2 darker ORIGINAL races), but of course our skin color is also lighter than black (black plus 2 lighter ORIGINAL races). In America, 3 original races were mixed in their supposed discovery. Do you understand why we don't say that we are ONE COLOR? Races are more than just black and white. ❤️ Nice reaction.
Estas personas quieren que seamos negros africanos a la mala. Yo vivo en los Estados Unidos y viajo a mi natal país todo el tiempo y estos hijos de ya tu sabes, nunca an visitado an Africa y solo viven jodiendo con el mismo tema. Viviendo en el pasa, se hunden y quieren llevarse a otros con ellos. Soy descendiente Taino y de las Islas Canarias, somos una nación con descendientes de muchos lugares del mundo 🌎 y del medio oriente, de ÑAPA.
@@eclesiastico5858 totalmente de acuerdo!! Me encantaría ver una interacción de ellos con alguno de mis amigos chinos o cualquier otro nacido aquí que les diga "soy dominicano"... ahí sí que se les va a explotar la cabeza!! 😅
@@iohannsepulveda7605 la risa que me da cuando dicen que , oye esto, nos auto-odiamos porque no reconocemos que somos negros . Y ya tenemos la lengua pela que somos muchas rasas sancochando más de 500 años. No ombe , que nos suelten banda ya.
I never heard Dominicans deny their European ancestry; however, they will go miles on end to deny their African roots. And leave the whole Taino thing out of it because the percentage of Taino DNA is very low in Caribbean, especially in Dominican Republic. DR is predominately Black because even the mixed Dominicans have Afrocentric features and no one will ever mistake them for a European.
@@CerciRodriguez Well, if you've never heard it, you've already heard it from me (I'm Dominican from DR) and that's how we all think here. 😉 We have European ancestry, of course, but also American (native) and African (the Blacks that Spain brought as help and live together and mix, not like the British and the French who transported hundreds of thousands and segregated them). If we were called White, you would be seeing the "I'm not White" conversation, but since the attack is calling us Black (but I understand, you were taught that White is pure white and Black is everyone else 😅), then that's why you see so much than we defend ourselves from that attack. We Hispanics know that 3 races became 6 when they came together in the discovery of America, so diverse, so rich!! ❤️
Because when they got sh0t by the police, they will be running to OUR ORGANIZATIONS for help. All of them do it. They aren't black until the white man sends them a wake up call.
They are obsessed😂 no matter what they say Dominicans are a proud people and don't care what the afrocentrics have to say! We are so cool and it's seems we are in fashion and everyone is claiming us😂
@smashedphone4200 who the FK are you to tell people where they could live....you don't know the nothing about me so fk off and worry about your black ass😂 I own properties here and DR too and I will come and go because I can sweetheart
Hi Tanya😊, we're glad to have someone from Belize in the house. The first time we heard about Belize was from a movie, the series was called queen of the south and Belize looked and sounded so exotic and beautiful 🥰
I'm white, grew up in majority "Hispanic" Caribbean neighborhoods in the northeast U.S. Many from the islands. At that time mostly PR, some Cubans, Dominicans. As a kid I noticed how racist they were against black people. Even the kids. But I never had any problems.
This people (the video) has nothing good to do with their lives. They are angers, bitters, with bad social feelings. They want we (Dominicans people) be same like they are. But No way for. No chance for. Just leave us alone and happy
They always licking Latinos balls begging them to be black saying we the same people to Latinos. Then they'll tell Caribbean and Africans we're not the same people African Americans are the most ignorant prideful bozos I tell you.
As a black man i dont care if you dont claim black. This is a non issue. Many Dominicans describe themselves as Dominican so what. Some say they are black some say they are white ..who cares...
It's not about you caring or who is caring. Its the fact that those are the same people that will claim blk when they come to the states for government/student assistance. It's black when it benefits them, and so many are starting to see it.
because being dominican is a nationality not a race! there are only 3 races, black white and asain, everything else is a nationality, ethnicity, or a mix of all three! people need to know that
@@crossfade5107 No one cares the only people that continue to make race an issue are those that hate darker skinned people , as if darker skinned people should hate themselves because they are dark.. This whole race thing i see as a childish game that too many adults have joined and made toxic.
@@circle7205 😂 aint type of assistance in any country will benefit those who use it . Why do you care that they are claiming black when it benefits them 😂😂 such childish thinking. Did you see every Dominican do what u just claimed. Guess what i does not matter cause if they click latino they will get the same benefits just the same..
@lolitah8560 bruh I only see you mofos online I don't live anywhere near yall. Trust me we don t give no fucks, we fuck with boricuas.Theres some bs between us here and there but that's it It happens when two groups are similar and different. Also those folks might be black africans or black caribbeans asking that shit too. Who knows On another note they might have a point cause yall dudes tend to look like black americans when it comes to style and dress. Even mexicans/ chicanos have their own style . Plus theres No dominicans like that in the midwest..keep that bs yall be on in NYC and Connecticut it ain't sweet over here... Trust me I cringe at that shit too maybe it's a hard concept for some of em. If someone asked me are dominicans black I'd say 👎 but clear it up saying only those who decend from English and French speaking islanders, and Semana americans decendants of AAs. Again, be who you want to be just leave us out of it then maybe the grouping will disappear ( shrugs) then again east coast blacks dudes are different
It’s positively pathological, these people can’t help themselves, they have to be in your business, determining how you may identify and what label you may use. I’m not even Dominicana and they’ve already gotten on my last nerve.
I’m not. They really obnoxious and lame and built bad. I noticed they love to say they DR or PR and I could care less. Just can’t stand when they say ngga like they can all of a sudden identify. If you not a ngga you can’t say ngga.
I think everyone is missing the point, specially "the Dominicans" in those videos which have probably lost their identity from living most of their lives in USA. We, Dominicans are not against the black race or any race, the point is that DR is a diverse country with many different types of races, we look like Africans, Indians, Europeans, Americans, and others. Now, white or clear skin people are a minority though, but we have lots of people that look like Indians, now are Indians black too?. The reason why we don't like being called black is because is an over simplification, probably because in this world you need to be 100% white to be called white, but 1% black to be called black, but that doesn't mean this is correct, and we do not follow that line of reasoning either.
How about it's just non of their business! It lunacy how obsessed these people are with Dominicans😂 the History of DR is the same as the USA as far as who was there first! the island had native Tainos 1st. European 2nd Africans slaves 3rd.....meaning a mixture of all.....some have more some have less! As opposed to Haiti who are 95% black!!!In the big scheme of things is just non of their business 😂
They're just jealous they don't have this beautiful combination!! Like they're even talking about us in Africa😂 a continent we have never step foot on😂🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Dominicans born and raised in the US are obsessed with race and are very disconnected from Dominican history. No our history does not mirror the one of the US. A civil war was fought in the US over race. DR did not fight a war over race. Our forefathers called for the unity of races since 1844. We have been mixing for 500 yrs and and genetic tests prove over and over again that we are a mixed race mainly : African ,Spaniard and Indigenous. Whereas the genetic tests of Black Americans is mostly of African ancestry.
I worked with a lot of Guyanese who are darker than I am and they get upset if I refer to them as black. This is how far we have been removed from our true identify that some of us even feel ashamed to be associated with our own race
Actually, approximately 50% of Guyanese are of Indian heritage. Their foreparents were brought to Guyana as indentured servants after slavery was over.
You can be Dominican and not black but you can’t say that being Dominican means you are not black. You may not be a black dominican but black Dominicans exist. Pay attention.
@@cloudyskies7591those blck people that say that they are Dominican, really they are Haitian that want to adopt la DOMINICANIDAD. Second as a Dominican if compare myself with those twins and really white.
I am a Dominican that was born and raised in NY and have been living in the DR for a decade now. My kids were raised here. The problem is that ppl in the US: the society and education are constantly labeled and taught about the history of racism etc. The DRs history is very different when it comes to race and while I’m not saying there’s no such thing is racism here, it’s no where near as pronounced. It was difficult for me to explain to my kids about racism because they’ve never had to experience it and being surrounded by so many different shades of light and dark skin; they just see it as a hair color: just a way to describe someone. Being darker or lighter does not imply a specific tone of voice or accent, behavior, lifestyle, musical preference, etc. It’s not a big deal when you have one cousin who looks European and another looking African here…because it’s the norm. In fact it’s weird if you don’t have that type of mix within your family. African Americans and Dominicans raised in the US just see it as us denying our roots but we are just nowhere near as obsessed with race and those type of labels. From here, they understand that African Americans see themselves as a separate culture so when they do to the US they specify they are Dominican. Not as a race bc it’s just not a thing. We don’t say “African Dominican or Caucasian Dominican, etc. We just say Dominican and the racial mix is a given-and a fact. We don’t see how having one parent who is dark and another light automatically makes you black (ie one drop rule) just like it won’t make you white. Obama for us would be a mixed mulato man and that’s that. And technically, we are right. But people are so fixated and convinced that the one drop rule is real that they can’t see beyond that. Honestly I feel so liberated from not having to be constantly reminded that I’m different and what my race or ethnicity is. Bc at the end of the day, those reminders are just there to try to hold you down and remind you that you’re “less than”..and it’s all BS. The irony is that these videos want to make Dominicans look stupid, racist, and ignorant but we are not bitter, or have a victim mentality; we feel free and race is not something that occupies our day to day thinking.
One other thing I’d like to add. I remember being young and saying I am black and African Americans would look at me and say “no you ain’t”..in other words I’m not black enough to “understand” their “struggles.” But when we say we aren’t black they can’t stand that either. Either way it’s a problem I guess 🤷🏽♂️
I’m not Dominicana but I’m so tired of people getting triggered because Dominicans see themselves as Dominicans and not African. I don’t see Dominicans as African/Black, I see them as Dominicans. I honestly don’t understand why people are offended by the fact that Dominicans are proud of their ethnicity and nationality. Ultimadamente cada persona tiene derecho a auto definirse y su perspectiva debe ser respetada.
Dominicans went out of their way to beg the US to help them with the “blacks” of Haiti in the 1800s, also curated immigration from specifically from Europe and last but not least, Trujillo the butcher. I’d say a lot of Dominicans are obsessed about race, and it occupies their daily thinking - especially finding ways not to be, or associated with, blacks.
One of the best comments and explanations ever. The blacks won't acknowledge it. Living in the US it'll be very hard to find a black call themselves American. They run away from the title American. They gravitate to black or African American. It bothers the blacks in America that other people in the world don't view it as them.
You are a pretty good job on your research of Dominican republic, but in fact the entire Latin America is pretty much the same way if you should do a study on Argentina you will see that they actually wiped out their black population many of them will survive had to leave many of the countries in Latin America Aberdeen call whitening of the population where they actually Force dark-skinned people to enter mix with lighter complexion people especially the women. ❤
@@FactChecker1378 if your question is at my statement then I'm afraid you like a little bit of overstanding, because I don't think anyone said that they visited the DR they comment was about the information that they mentioned about the DR considering they did not know anything so I think you have it wrong my friend. Try to comprehend what you're reading.
I've actually met an Afro-Argentian at my job and he identified as Black/Negro with indigenous roots. Much like a lot of Black Americans. Try actually talking to people
MOST African Americans are ALSO mixed... Needless to say the very races they have running in their blood see them as black...NOT the other races they are mixed with.
Without watching the video I can tell you why. People from the Caribbean, Domican Repubic, Puerto Rico and Cuba are tri-racial. Our heritage is European, Indian and African-from those 3 races and cultures we created our own blend.Tthe most similar are DR, PR and Cuba. We don't identify as colors (our families are all mixed) we identify as our culture our country. It's that simple and no we don't have colorism in the caribbean that's only with American Blacks who identify as a color- we don't . My family is mixed and we are Puerto Rican that's it. Don't put your Americna color agendas on us. Jamaica and Haiti culture are different with a diffferent language. Jamaica enlish was a Brittish colony, Haiti french was a French colony. Dr, PR & Cuba were Spanish colonies. But none of the above mentioned islands identify as color, we don't have black puerto ricans or white puerto ricans we are just all Puerto Rican. This is the same in DR & Cuba Why is this concept so difficult for Americans especially black Americans to understand or why they feel the need to impose color" issues where none exist?
Great video. I'm from nyc. Dominican origins. The majority of my family is tan or light skinned and a few, more darker in completion. With brown eyes, green eyes, blue eyes. I did my dna testing im 33% black & 66% European with mostly coming from Spain & Portuguese. You look at me you wont say im black or white you will say oh hes spanish. I have thick straight hair thin nose. So being Dominican, like the 1st lady you posted video is correct that we identify more so with culture or language. Also we are mixed people. I have friends that are asian, Jewish, Arabic as well as black or European that live not only in the states but also born in the D.R. most of my family have "good" or straight hair are fair completion or European "features" and some with African "features". We all know what we are even if we are mixed. We even call ourselves negro or Morena when saying hi to one another even if we are black or fair or tanned completion. But what we identify isn't really race since the country is mixed we always say we are spanish right because of our culture & language. Even when filling documents or even school testing in the States they give the option to put spanish for race, now they put spanish and or country of origin. Because we are mixed people we are the most mixed country in this side of the hemisphere the most mulatto people. But now the word mulatto is considered offensive from reading online. But mulatto you rarely see on documents. Now when they give more then one option I put mixed or black and white or spanish from the the D.R. the problem was years ago there's been issues between the D.R. & Haiti and the world automatically say we are racist. It's not about race its about a country having issues with another country for hundreds of years of small wars and the poor country citizens migrating over to a country also poor but is doing better. But people don't don't see the help the D.R. has gave to Haiti. The D.R. is the only country actually helping the best it can more so then any other country and there's tons of Haitians in D.R. for years working & living with no issue but of course things do happen like any country but rasict nah that's just over exaggerated. The U.S and many other country could take the 1st 2nd 3rd spot for that. But to just say we are black isn't 100% true. My mother is fair skin good hair & her side of the family have light hair and colored eyes while my dad side is more tan and some black. So the 1% drop doesn't make much sense. So what if your family is black and a few white people we don't have 1% white so your white rule 😂. It should go by how you appear to others and how you, yourself identify. I mean we do it with gender and sex identify. Today I feel like grey hair fox lol now about Trujillo was awful times people where scared for there lives but people weren't rasict like a white supremacist. We have as much racism like any other country towards anyone one white black Indian Chinese jewish Arabic. We just all need to have interracial relationship like that in 100 years from now we will all just be tanned color and no talk about race. One ❤
WE ARE A TAINO DICENDENT AND MIX OTHER RACES IS A ISLAND !!THE RIGHT THING TO SAY IS I'M A PERSON OF COLOR AND MY IDENTITY IS OF A CARIBBEAN HISPANIC!! MIND SOME ARE NOT, MAYBE CREO OR OF OTHER MIX RACE!! MY CULTURE HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH MY IDENTITY AS NATIVE DOMINICAN!! PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND REJECT SOMETHINGS HAVING TO DO WITH THERE CULTURE!!
I'M BLACK SOUNDS RACIST!! BY A FRUSTRATING PERSON, MAYBE THEY HAVE A REASON FOR THAT EXPRESSION!! WE ARE NOT ONE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN!! OUR BELIEVE AND CULTURE AND SOCIAL CLASS MIGHT PLAY A DIFFERENCE AS ONE PEOPLE!!
Black Americans seem to be the only ones hung up on labels. Nigerians or Jamaicans don't call themselves African American. They know who they are. Move on.
No It's part of USA label people by their looks. Black Americans don't control cast system. Yes black Americans know who they are they're not Africans. Yeah move on
It's actually about understanding your ethnicity not your race. There's one race of people and it's the human race. Your ethnic background determines your identity based upon your roots...the heritage from where your family originated. Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!......James Brown!!!
I am Puerto Rican and we understand that we are mixed, 64% European, 21% African, and 15% Native Taino Indians. We have black, white and mixed color people in our beautiful island and those of us who reside in the US. This is the beauty of our rainbow and Puerto Ricans understand that we are a mixed race. You can see the whitest to blackest in shades but we identify as Puerto Ricans in solidarity. Dominicans should accept their ancestry and roots. That is what makes them Dominican.
So the one drop rule doesn't apply to Puertoricans? Because according to them you're all black too....since you have the same racial makeup as Dominicans Tahino, Spanish and African 😂
If ppl are comfortable and confident with referring to themselves as black then be proud and happy with your blackness. If certain groups of ppl do not identify or refer to themselves as black, that is their their personal choice. There are “black” ppl all over the world, every ‘black’ person’s experience is different and most ppl identify with their nationality. There is no country called black!
Unfortunately most people identify with what those who oppressed them call them especially down there in the Caribbean and the United States of America too. Those Europeans have so many people of African descent so confused as to who and what they are it's sad.
@@denniebone388 No, los DOMINICANOS si sabemos quienes somos y no somos "afro" porque si dijeramos eso estariamos negando nuestra herencia Europea y Taina. Asi que se pueden envenenar ustedes mismos con su Odio 🖕🏽.
THEY ARE NOT DOMINICANS...CLEAR THAT CRAP UP. These people are from the Dominican Republic, not from the Commonwealth of Dominica. These are two different islands in the Caribbean. #DominicanRepublic #caribbean #dominica
@marekcracovia4061solo habian Tainos en ese tiempo, cuando llegaron los españoles y conquistaron la isla se llamo La Hispaniola, luego 100 años despues llegaron los esclavos africanos a la parte este de la isla. El Dominicano no es africano ni negro es MESTIZO.
@@Greek329 I know you don't, because you come from a dusty Irish background I'm FBA proud I don't know if you know my ancestors built America misguided simpleton😂🙄😒💯
@@Greek329 Ok Irish dude, I know why you say that typical haterish bull💩 look at your ppl look at FBA'S who built America blood sweat & tears💯 and your ppl couldnt survive without blk ppl lmao that's why your mad huh 😂💯🤷🏼♂️
I am Dominican, but as a kid growing up in the northeast, some of my Afro-American friends as a kid would always ask me where are you from; I would always tell them I am American, and they would say, nah, where are your parents from because of my Spanish last name and I would say, they were from the Dominican Republic, and guess what my friends would tell me??? You ain't really black; you are Spanish. I was so confused as a child. However, it does not stop there. My son is going through the same thing now in Virginia, and his Afro-American friends are telling him the same thing as I was told as a child back in the 80's, you are not black; you are Spanish.
If I were in DR, and someone said to me, "You're not Black your mixed." I would say: "What would you call an Asian in Asia." OK, now "What would you call an Asian in your country." But an African brought over in chains to Dominican Republic, he's no long African, he's Spanish?
@@dumbphonemom Being mixed is admitting multiple ethnicity. It seems the European heritage is embraced while Native and African ignored. The irony is that Spain was ruled by Moors for nearly 800 years. What does "Moreno," mean? How did Arabic words like "As Sukkar" or "Azucar" become common place? Put another way Spanish culture cannot separate itself from being influenced by Africans, or Moors. Based upon your claim of not being born in Africa. We have to conclude that most Dominicans were not born in Spain either. Yet they express themselves in Spanish.
After listening to this video and for this reason I ask you, what race is a person who is multiracial...??? If someone has two, three or more different racial combinations, then what genetically is the race of that person? Which one race does he/she picks? Does one race cancel out the other?
Im a light skin Dominican born in usa and im still tried as a black man and my family is all colors I have brothers and sisters from mother side that are black and brown skin We Dominicans have a ethnicity that is very mixed . Trujillo grand mother was Haitian Trujillo wasn't the only dictator that way .. All the dictators of Latin America all latin America and the Caribbean face the same problem haiti as well Puerto Rico. Colombia. Panama. Cuba. 🇺🇸 USA forced us all into racially profiling each other Every hispanic nation has darker people on one side of the country And whites on the other its not just in Dominican Republic .
THIS IS CLEARLY A SPIRIT OF SELF HATE......THIS IS SO SAD AND PITIFUL......A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEIR PAST... ASK THE POLICE AND THE EMPLOYEES ABOUT HOW THEY SEE YOU....
What about the mixed raced people who hate their European ancestry? Isn't that self hatred or do they get a pass because hating Europeans is cool and trendy?
@@JoseMartinez-bh1nghe won’t answer it because it does not fit his Afro Centric narrative…. I have been dealing with these Afro Centric for years when it comes to them harassing Latinos and our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics. Behind the scenes it has nothing to do with promoting Black pride or Black Unity…. In reality it is the lust for non-Black features they want to claim as theres. They fetishize Dominicans because they desire to be with Dominican women and desire mixed features because they dislike themselves. They hate how Dominicans do not care about them, they hate that Dominicans and other mixed Hispanics alike do not prioritize there Black agendas over Hispanic related issues. That is why these type of Dominican insults videos are trendy. We know this because if you look up every Dominican DNA video you will see nothing but black comments harassing them… whereas Dominicans never talk about them.
he won’t answer it because it does not fit his Afro Centric narrative…. I have been dealing with these AfroCentric for years when it comes to them harassing Latinos and our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics. Behind the scenes it has nothing to do with promoting Black pride or Black Unity…. In reality it is the lust for non-Black features they want to claim as theres. They fetishize Dominicans because they desire to be with Dominican women and desire mixed features because they dislike themselves. They hate how Dominicans do not care about them, they hate that Dominicans and other mixed Hispanics alike do not prioritize there Black agendas over Hispanic related issues. They hate how Dominican women want nothing to do with them. That is why these type of Dominican insults videos are trendy. We know this because if you look up every Dominican DNA video you will see nothing but black comments harassing them… whereas Dominicans never talk about them.
he won’t answer it because it does not fit his AfroCentric narrative…. I have been dealing with these AfroCentrics for years when it comes to them harassingLatinos and our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics. Behind the scenes it has nothing to do with promoting Black pride or Black Unity…. In reality it is the lust for non-Black features they want to claim as theres. They fetishize Dominicans because they desire to be with Dominican women and desire mixed features because they dislike themselves. They hate how Dominicans do not care about them, they hate that Dominicans do not prioritize there agendas over Hispanic related issues. They hate how Dominican women want nothing to with them. That is why these type of Dominican insults videos are trendy. We know this because if you look up every Dominican DNA video you will see nothing but black comments harassing them… whereas Dominicans never talk about them.
@@JoseMartinez-bh1ng He will not answer because it does not fit his narrative. I have been dealing with AfroCentrics and their attacks on our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics for along time. The truth is this, behind the scene it has nothing to do with promoting pro blackness or black unity… it is actually the lust for non-black features they want to claim for their own. That is why they fetishize Dominican women because they dislike themselves and desire mixed features. That is why they force Dominicans to identify as black so they can feel better about themselves and care so much about Dominicans identify as. They hate how Dominicans do not care about there problems, they hate that Dominicans do care about their agendas, they hate that Dominican women want nothing to do with them. That is why Dominican videos like this are trendy. We know this because on every Dominican DNA video you see nothing but blackcomments harassingDominicans. In response Dominicans never talk about them or say anything back to them.
If they're in their own country they're free to identify or align with whoever they want. When they go to the US, that's a different story because the race dynamics are different there. Their relations with Haiti has to do with both race and history. The Haitians invaded and ruled Dominican republic in the 1800's, multiple bouts of fighting followed throughout the 1800's. Naturally distrust will exist, it's like Kenya being invaded by Tanzania multiple times, what would the level of trust be? Interesting topic though, normally black men like this topic 🤣 because Dominican women are known for their beauty and they want to pull the 'black card' to get close to them 😅.
Beauty is a broad definition and I am not impressed whenever by the western average person definition. I am always dissecting one's commitment when said looking for more especially whenever someone in the westerners world say it. I am not easily impressed
Hmmm🤔. . . .so what are Kenyan women known for? What are Ghanaian women known for? What are African-American women known for? Are these women supposed to be any less beautiful than women from the Dominican Republic? 😶
Your wrong the British and Spanish invaded Dominican Republic and Africans slaves migrated to to the island when slavery ended. The African and Taino tribe merge and fought along side to help conquer the land. Overtime when the British and Spaniards lost the war they fled the island because they lost the war. Their was only Africans and Taino tribes there. After the war their wasn’t that much of the Taino Tribe left because they all was killed before the Africans reach the island. Their was more Africans on the island than Taino. The Spaniards came back to the island and made a deal with the president of D.R and decided to share their resources but in order to do that they had to separate their selves from the Africans. That’s when Hati was founded because the president of D.R start forcing Africans to move to the other side of the Island. The Haitians went to War with the Spaniards & Dominicans fought and won their independence. If it wasn’t for the Africans D.R wouldn’t even exist, yall used us and went back to the colonizers soon as they decide to share resources. Theirs a reason when Dominicans take a DNA test your 50% European and 50% African the Taino tribe died many years ago it’s only few that have 5% - 10% Taino left in their blood. How can you be ignorant or hate people that help conquer the land?
The Dominican Republic is a nation with a rich and diverse heritage, shaped by centuries of historical interactions. Let’s delve into the fascinating mosaic of its DNA composition: European Ancestry: The majority of Dominicans trace their roots back to European settlers, primarily of Spanish origin. Approximately 73% of the founder population’s DNA is estimated to be of European descent 12. This European influence has left an indelible mark on Dominican culture, language, and traditions. African Heritage: The fusion of African and European elements during colonization resulted in a significant African contribution. Around 17% of the founder population’s DNA has African origins 1. After subsequent migrations, this percentage increased to 35% 2. The African influence is evident in music, dance, religion, and cuisine. Native Taino Roots: The indigenous Taino people inhabited the island before European arrival. Their genetic legacy persists, constituting approximately 10% of the founder population’s DNA 1. Although their numbers were significantly reduced due to colonization and disease, their cultural impact remains. Complex Admixture: The Dominican population is a vibrant mix of these three ancestral sources. While 75% of Dominicans are visibly and evenly mixed, the remaining 25% exhibit varying degrees of African or European blood 1. This intricate genetic tapestry reflects the nation’s complex history. Y Haplogroups: The Y chromosome analysis reveals an excess of northern African/European lineages (59%), followed by African clades (38%), with Native American lineages being rare (3%) 3. This further underscores the diverse genetic heritage. In summary, the Dominican Republic celebrates its multicultural identity, where European, African, and Taino legacies intertwine to create a unique and vibrant tapestry of humanity. 🌎🇩🇴
All very true, however; many Dominicans deny their African heritage.
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Just passed by through the comments and I noticed they don't even give a like to people who provides information and speak positive about the Dominican people. Just let it show that they hate Dominicans and only give heart and like who agreed with what they said 😢 that sad.
@@Liftercode Don’t matter what you say to them they’ll still go to their traditional standard reference “ONE DROP RULE” ironically created by The white MASTER of yesteryear.
As a super mixed Dominican, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO IDENTIFY HOWEVER WE WANT!!! Many Dominicans are mixes of a lot of things, and yeah, we can recognize when someone looks majority from different ethnic groups its because we don't put as much emphasis on race! Its simply just how someone looks, if they're more Taino looking or Indian or Black or YT its not to say anyone is lesser like in American English its just how you describe someone. Also, because of this, every state I've been in I've met at least 3 Dominicans 🇩🇴 that ive been able to identify because there's a presence of Taino Genes (Native Carribean Islanders, often looking black but with straight texture or straight wirey and straight European in modern Taino persons) even in F-ing Kansas. Oftentimes, you don't want to be identified by US Black culture as there's a lot of hyper sexual content and violence meant to brainwash kids into being those things when they get older. And LASTLY, mixed people are allowed to Identify however they please, just because someone looks fully black doesn't mean they are! Black women give birth to white babies same as a spainish looking Dominican can give birth to a baby thats more Taino (Straight with Texture) or Black (curly texture) presenting. NEVER ASSUME SOMEONE IDENTITY!!! All with love tho and SHOUTOUT TO MY FELLOW TAINOSSS!!!❤❤❤❤
The Dominicans are right they're not black it's just another word to describe a person. One time Africans didn't call themselves black they call by their tribe name or country.
Coz she was right hahah, mulattoes who are a mix between white and black have a higher percentage of European than African DNA, in the Dominican Republic there is no such racial division as in the US and that is why she does not identify herself that way
I personally don't get offended. But I do get ppl that tell me oh I thought you were YT or Asian or Native American and then the people who straight up ask are you black and WTF is my plantain looking ahhh supposed to say??? The worst, when people ask AGAIN after I explain a small percent of my blood can be traced back to Africa and I'm mostly Taino and European so I identify as a PROUD Dominican 🇩🇴
Can't say it enough but am so happy to see two young persons researching and tking on serious issues. Wishing you so much success. The colnial masters did a great job on blck people across the globe. Each European power had their own twist to their indoctrination programme. The black of DR are special; they are in total denial about their identity, but with your work you can help to make a difference. Black people have to start loving our blackness and redefining beauty.
Afro DR identify with descriptive terms that describe their melanin. They dont identify with the statue of Black. They identify as indigenous as well. Maybe really talk to the people and read uo on them. Instead of assuming
This kind of question only matter when you and your family have their problems solved by your own efforts, if you have time to lose you have this kind of conversations, this a waste of time dominicans will not change their way of thinking
If our race is 18% white, 7.8% black and 74% mulato indigenous, why are we supposed to call ourselves Black when our black percentage is the lowest?? We just don’t identify ourselves as black, we don’t identify ourselves as white either even though our whit percentage is two times our black percentage! Y’all need to stop trippin.
People, I am Dominican, I am black, white, Indian, and Brown. You can't put all Dominican in one basket. Does Dominican that refuse to see themselves as having black influence, they lack education. So this video should not even be discussed or generalized Dominican.
@@schompificationSABEMOS muy bien Nuestro origen y por eso no nos dejamos deconstruir ni dividir, mis ancestro son Españoles, Indios Tainos, y Africanos y no podemos negarlos, por ende somos DOMINICANOS Y NADA MAS.
@@bluebell3720look at the comment before yours acknowledging African roots. We just deny being black American. There was a miscommunication somewhere along the line African Americans all of a sudden acting like black isn't used as a cultural identifier in United States. "Ooh your denying being black!"
This video is probably one of the worst and most distorted versions of the truth that I have ever heard and seen in my entire life. If you are going to make an argument about the racial identity of a particular country or group of people, please thoroughly review the facts before perpetuating false information, making generalizations or arriving at any ill-founded conclusions. First get the facts straight, listen to both sides of the story from those who are truly qualified to discuss such a complex topic and maybe then make an informed opinion. If you are going to make comparisons, then compare apples to apples not apples to oranges. Saying that Jamaica or Haiti is ethnically, culturally, and racially equal to the DR is preposterous. Just to give you one example of the inaccuracies is the reference made about PLANTAINS. This starchy fruit did not come from Africa but rather originated in Southeast Asia, which later came to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade by way of the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory, for this reason, I ask, can you name one country in Africa where plantains like Dominicans is part of their everyday diet? Have you ever wondered why Plantains is not a common food staple in any of the African Countries? I can go on and on about so many other errors in this video that it’s pathetic and in order for me to help clarify them, I will need to write a book. And if you are going to put someone on to discuss this very complex topic, make sure the person is impartial, most importantly qualified to talk about it, not speak from a subjective point of view, and tainted or influenced by the US American concept of a black Afrocentric ideology. The DR is not only just black, but also among other things white, tri-racial, quadroon, quarteron, octoroon, mestizo, multi-racial, multiethnic, and multicultural. Yes, the DR is that, then some and much more. The DR unlike most countries in the western hemisphere, its people are a product of mutigenerational miscegenation which as a result became a nation where native lost a clear sense of their own racial identity. They can best be described as ambiguous or with an undefined race and for this reason often times misunderstood and misinterpreted by others. This video is a perfect example of the confusion among many, including yourselves who erroneously believed Dominicans are in denial or self hating.
Being Dominican is a nationality ( a STATUS of belonging to a particular NATION), NOT a race. Race (any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry) Know Thyself!!!!!
When a person fills out a application it asks you to check off your race A Dominican will identify themselves as Latino Not to deny their black heritage but they're answering the question They identify as Latino They're saying im Latino not Black Its a whole other question if they were asked do you have Black ancestors Thats a different question
Let people identify what they want to. People should not be forced to call themselves blk just b/c other people think they should. Only blk Americans call themselves a color!
My dude Godfrey is right Iam both DR & PR and he is speaking a 💯 Facts 🫵🙌😝😂🤣 we are one of the first mixture of half Black and Spanish and thats how you get a Dominicans point blank period 🙏😎...Bless all in YESHUA holy name
Your nationality doesn’t make you bi racial. It’s anti black. I’m from Louisiana and lighter than some people who insist they are part Spanish. Race is a social construct. Ya look black not mixed.
I doubt you’re Pr or Dominican bc you wouldn’t have said we’re half blk and Spanish when my people are mixed with FAR more than that anyway we def wouldn’t be biracial but triracial and even then there’s so much diversity on the island you can’t define everyone into a category there were Japanese and middle eastern settlers in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic which is why we have significant amounts of middle eastern blood it’s common for us to have Lebanese blood and etc ..
Dominicans have a wide and diverse ethnic makeup. Just because most Dominicans have African Blood, does not make them African/Black. They have and are mixed with various indigenous people, Spaniards i.e. European blood and even White Europeans. " The majority of the population (around 70 per cent) are of mixed African and European (Spanish) descent, with the remainder black (around 16 per cent) and white (14 per cent). During the early colonial period indigenous Taíno-Arawak communities were also part of the overall population." Therefore, they can identify as being European as well.
You are what you are not what someone says you are, if the police think you are a prostitute does it make you one. Hell no. I am from Trinidad and I am mixed, because it is what I really am, Mt African and Native mom and my Indian second generation from India Dad says we have to describe as mixed, and I look like Prince. My daughter's mom is Chinese and Lebanese White she is also mixed not one side. People just want what they want and not what they really are not me.
I'm definitely not mad at you for claiming mixed race. It makes sense. What I find truly asinine is when people who have African blood running through their veins look down on blck / African people and think that they are better than.
@@LuvvMyBrownSkinThe thing is many mixed people feel that they are better than everyone and not just black people. Some of us tend to become very narcissistic by the constant praising of our features.
@@BillyTimes-dw7vs You can be a 60 year old, old fool too. Also the boomer generation of Black Americans do not identify as Africans. So idk where u pull this drop of African from. They identified as Negro/Indian. Thats assuming you are American
@@BillyTimes-dw7vs You cant say nothing to me with that Asian woman on your arm. You left the black community along time ago. All those Black Gi making bastard babies in the Philippines
@dahliar410, as in other Hispanic American identities with diverse ethnicities together, the truth is that in Hispanic America there is no culture determined exclusively by your ethnicity. A Caribbean Dominican can be anything from black to white, to give an example. 👍
I have no issue with anyone saying, they are puerto rican or dominican, mexican regardless of their color , and in the end its their choice how they want to identify themselfs by their nationality or some far background. I think this topic has to be treaded carefully because it can become toxic .. forcing others to think they african because of color or other reasons is wrong, "let them be"..
Thanks!
Thank you so much John, we appreciate you 🙏🏻 🥰
You 2 need something more important to do! Shame on you 😂go get educated on the History of 🇩🇴 Go collect some money to help the People of Haiti....now there is a plan!!!!
DNA evidence shows that a large proportion of the current populations of the Greater Antilles have Taíno ancestry, with 61% of Puerto Ricans, up to 30% of Dominicans, and 33% of Cubans having mitochondrial DNA of Taíno origin. You need more education black man
@@twinshangoutkenya The young lady speaking is not Dominican, she identified herself as saying that one of her parents is Dominican, and she is an American by nationality, she is not Dominican, she does not know our culture and our history, and she has no right to speak for us or about us. To be Dominican you have to know the culture, know our history, and feel identified with what we are. And we are not black, and we are not African. We are an ethnic group that developed on the island hundreds of years ago, Dominican is our nationality, Dominican is our ethnicity, America is our continent. Nobody has to disrespect our history, nobody is going to erase our identity. Wearing braids and tanning does not make you African, nor black, we respectfully ask you not to use our name to make money, you are not part of us, we have nothing to do with it.
Africans identify themselves by religion and ethnicity, hahaha, and now you have the audacity to take Dominicans in your mouth, people who have nothing to do with you, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
I don’t care what they call themselves. I can only worry about myself. I’m African and enjoying it.
But, Dominicans worry about every and anyone else. And, say the exact same thing about other groups of people.
@@MoisePicard-mk1ntcap i just spent a month in the Dominican Republic...
The only people worrying about what Dominicans call themselves are African Americans who think they police the world👀🤔
Exactly, let them people be who they want to be
That’s what I’m saying. Why would anyone want even more self hating people around them?
am proud to be black 🇯🇲👍🏽, African is our mother land.
Hi Alieem, this is lovely
Amen brother
If you ever in South Africa, Zimbabwe or scotland drinks on me🙏👍
Now stop telling people they're black if they say they're aren't black. Africa is a whole continent with millions of black people.
@@TrollinOn22s huh
@@TrollinOn22s very weak counter argument from YOU🤣🙄😂
You'll never hear a clansman say Oh! Let's not lynch this person, they're "Caribbean".
Klansmen don't get the opportunity to kill no blacks...too busy doing it themselves
Nevertheless everybody does not process knowledge in the Anglo Colonizers artifical racial categorical construct.
You think 600 years ago so called Africans contemplated themselves as Black, or do you think vikings thought Russians were their kin just because of shared white similitude.
A quick reading of the Bible shows primitive humans did not contemplate themselves in the Colonizers artifical racial categorical construct.
@@Eugene-pt5lu ?? Ok, so what? The brutal , murderous and devasting realities of colonialism, skin color based racism, and the atrocities that came with it? Didn't exist then. So how in the fuqqck can the mindsets and worldviews that came from it? Be felt, known or accounted for?
When it didn't exist? And how does anything you said? Take away from
Everything that's now here? Because of it?
In other words,...WTF are You talking about?
you heard them yourself?
Fact
Dominicans, like Puerto Ricans can be a mixture of a European, African and Indigenous. Some are more African, European, or indigenous, not necessarily equally. It’s true that they tend to use phrases that identify people as negro, blanco, etc. but that is less about race and more about color, because trigueño is not a race, it’s a shade of color.
The same color schemes were used in apartheid S. Africa - half cast, octoroon etc. Trevor Noah himself was never assigned a race.
I’m Dominican 🇩🇴 I’m not black. No we are not black. You take 100 Puerto Rican women. 100 Dominican women… and 100 black African American women or black women. How many black women can’t grow hair. We are a mixture of European indigenous and African….. while
black Americans are mostly African with some white. So she needs to take that knowledge somewhere else.
@@bzbernier1your point is stupid, stop living in the past and correlating things that have nothing to do with each other
IF A DOMINICAN'S COLOR IS BLACK, WHY NOT SAY BLACK DOMINICANS. NOT THAT THEY HAVE TOO, BUT IF YOU GO TO THE US, YOU WILL BE IDENTIFIED AS BLACK IF YOUR SKIN IS BLACK. THEY CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT AS LONG AS YOU STAY IN YOUR COUNTRY. I WONDER WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN BEING CALLED A NAME GIVEN TO SLAVES PEOPLE AND CALLING IT GOOD NOW, BUT THE COLOR THE WHITE MAN GAVE. NEGRA WAS CHANGE TO NEGRO. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE TO BE CALLED COLORED OR NEGRO. JUST WONDERING.
The true indigenous people are so called black or melanated people
This is a very loaded subject. Most Dominicans have more European DNA than African, yet we don't deny our African heritage. We are not "black" because we don't subscribe to the racial ideology of the US, and we also aren't "white" because that label didn't even exist when the Dominican Republic was settled . From the onset there was heavy mixing of the different populations on the island (Latins, natives, africans). We werent "colonized" , we were the colonizers. The reason you want to categorize us that way is because of your "one drop rule" which is non existent in Latin America. Those ideas of race were promoted by Northern european/German colonies of the north. Latin people (Italians, Spanish, portuguese) have always had color if you study the history of the Mediterranean. I support the empowerment of the African diaspora, I'm a big fan of Cheikh Anta Diop. I know we don't seem to fit neatly into your paradigm but ya'll need to ease up off us because that shit is getting corny already. God bless the Human race.
The USA is still using the one drop rule system. They called Barack Obama our "first Black president" and I put the quotations because Barack Obama is not monoracial. Barack Obama is a mulatto. He is half Black half White. Why can't Barrack Obama claim his White heritage? Black people don't got White family members in their family. Barack Obama got White family members in his family. The US needs to get rid of the one drop rule system because it is ridiculous and does not make any sense at all.
You can identify with whatever race you want to identify with, but your DNA doesn't lie.One love.One Mama Africa.
Your dna doesn’t say black it says african European or Asian 🥴🙄
@@tahliah6691if didn't have no black ancestors your DNA wouldn't identify no percentage of African. The End!😮
Dna doesn't tell you what race you are or where you're from sorry to disappoint you though
@@tahliah6691 close, it says which region on the map you share a closer genetic relationship with with and it could be people of a different race
DNA does lie 😂😂 TF. You genealogy is not solely based on DNA
I had a Cape Verdian friend who was born in Portugal. When we attended high school in America she insisted she was not black, she was different from AA. People attacked her but I am AA and she was one of my best friends. It was clear to me we had very different cultures. We grew up speaking different languages, eating different foods and in different family structures. I realized what she was trying to express is she was from a culture that was not AA...but when we were attacked by racists she was the first to stand up against it. I think we could all be more open minded.
Its what I ķeep telling AA we colored more based on culture rather than 1Drop issues.
Tu amiga eras una mulata eso era lo que ella se refería.
Culture and race are two different things. and there are different zones of cape verdeas where you can find blacks, portuguese europeans and mullatos
Did she looked black, most cape verdian look like natives people to me
@shondaceesayful She can be foreign in her own community. Black Americans are not an immigrant hub. We are an ethnic community.
Just…..Let them be🤷🏾♂️ They’re a mixture of different ethnic groups…what’s it to you who or what they claim to be ??🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🙏🏾
Exactly! 👏
@emmanuelmontperous3537, as in other Hispanic American identities with diverse ethnicities together, the truth is that in Hispanic America there is no culture determined exclusively by your ethnicity. A Caribbean Dominican can be anything from black to white, to give an example.
You missed the entire point but ok..as I said regardless let them be
Gracias por tu comentario.saludos desde República Dominicana 😊
I love the DR, it’s a fact they don’t live in the daily black and white sickness plp live in the usa. It’s too much to handle for plp in the usa as we talk “race” (skin color) 24/7. In fact plenty of plp make a living dividing plp on skin color. Give it up. Live Nd let live. God bless the DR and its wonderful plp.
It is the "World" looking at you. It is crazy to us European that they are phenotypically black, and Diny the blackness.
Gracias, es difícil encontrar a alguien con cerebro
Then stay away from black culture. Hip-hop rap are dance styles And hairstyles
@user-bn8qf9sb2c, as in other Hispanic American identities with diverse ethnicities together, the truth is that in Hispanic America there is no culture determined exclusively by your ethnicity. A Caribbean Dominican can be anything from black to white, to give an example.
Totally agreed with you...
Dominicans are a mixture of Spaniards, Taino indians, and Africans... therefore we are mestizo and we do not have a race that defines us, what define us and makes us a Nation is our culture. Therefore if we said that we were black we would be denying our Spanish and Taino heritage.
What’s that got to do with them being black. A English person that is mixed with A white looking arub, & a white looking Armenian will be identified as what? Remember black & white are constructs. Yet people love to erase their blackness.
Pero estos antirracismo progres quieren que obligatoriamente digamos que todos somos afro, cuando muchos no tienen nada de afro. Por Dios!
I don't know why people care if some of them don't identify as black. Dominicans are a mix of different ethnicities. Overall, just remember who named us black, the white man named us black! and we're fighting over who's black or who's not black. It's embarrassing.
You are 💯❗ on point with this comment!
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😂😂😂 Stupidest comment ever. Black implies melanin content. There's NO such thing as white, but melanin deficiency, a disease. Your argument is really, I don't identify as melanated but as mixed with the melanin deficient, implying you have a deficiency. 😂😂
Ok so the YT man named us Black. We also live in a world that is controlled by YT supremacy. We all know how Black peoples are treated worldwide especially in America. Someone saying that they are not Black they’re other is separating ones self from the group in a failed attempt to escape the consequences of being Black. It shows that you wanna identify with the oppressive dominant society.
NO , it is not embarrassing because people need to know the truth.
All the Caribbean islands relative come from slaves. African slaves worked in the Sugarcane fields,, tobacco fields, cotton fields and just about anything else that you can think of.
😳🤔, Like James Brown Song- SAY IT LOUD I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD ✊🏿
You damn right.🖤👑💯
Word I'm Black even though I'm more Native Carribean and YT and got a tiny 15% African Blood SMH😂
Being black and proud makes you a racist. If you get bent out of shape over some white dude from 100 years ago being in a the Klan then you have no right to be Black and Proud. Its amazing how someone like MLK can exist, then right after everyone goes into racist mode.
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Yes a color your a color what is your flag?
As a dominican myself who is afro latino knows his roots and have asked questions to my grand aunts and grand mother and my aunts and uncles and my own dad... ALOT of dominican are just ignorant and choose to be ignorant in not wanting to know about their roots and their history
TRUE,,,IGNORANCE BREEDS STUPIDITY,AND IN THIS CASE,A DISRESPECT OF ONE'S SELF.
No, it's because the Dominican Republic is a racist society and they have the notion that if they accepted their African identity that it's make then less acceptable in the society and because of that they ignorantly rejecting their true identity
The problem with this mindset is dangerous? Understand this get caught in the white area in the country and you will find out? Your just a nigga with a accent! Stop the madness. Or maybe I can translate in Español?
It’s sad
Afro Dominicans identify as Indian not Black.
Im not sure how you don't know that
I can't believe people are missing what that guy was saying and to refute the joke that Godfrey was saying on Vladtv. As a Black man, born and raised in NYC with Hispanic blood, when I say I am Black, it's not my skin color but my CULTURE. I was raised in a Black Household-food, music, diction, clothing-you name it. When my Dominican barber of 20 years say he's NOT black, he's saying I am not not Black in Culture, although the police may call him black or Society as a whole. The ironic thing is we also live in a society where I have heard and seen many times, people get questions on their blackness 🤦♂it's happen to me. "Oh you're Black but you're light-skin so it's different." So when a Dominican or PR or Cuban says they are not Black they're not Being black is more than just the color of your skin.
Cunado decimos que no somos negros es por que somos mulatos.
We consider ourselves as Dominicans because we are a very mixed culture. And we are an independent country. We acknowledge our very mixed heritage. We celebrate our own culture that comes from very different places. Our food is the proof of that. We take the Africans beat and evolve it into what is now a merengue, bachata. What can be more black than how we behave, dance. Party. We celebrate our influences but we already have 500 years of history being a mixed country. Thats why we say Dominican
Pero tu ve esas 2 hermanas africanas que hicieron este video, están intentando a poner la imagen que nosotros nos vemos igual que ellos africanos 😂😂 todo el mundo puede ver la diferencia
Why do Dominicans act like black Americans are not mixed? We are, and just because most black Americans look more Sub-Saharan African than European & Indigenous does not change that fact. Bottom line is to a white person, if you look black, you will be seen as black in America.
Preach On🙌🏾
@@Ozama1221 No soy Dominicana pero me molesta que estas personas no respeten el derecho de los Dominicanos de auto definirse como les de la santa y regalada gana. Nunca he visto a un Latinoamericano pretendiendo dictarle a un Africano su identidad.
Por favor, un poquito más respeto.
Parte del problema es que hay Dominicanos que crecieron en los Estados Unidos y han adoptado la cultura Afroamericana, con su correspondiente obsesión de ver el racimo en todo.
@@vanessashimoni6548 estoy completamente de acuerdo contigo 💯💯
I went to D.R. 5 times Cuba 5 times Mexico 3 times, Barbados, Costa Rica, Haiti, SAN Andreas, Panama and on the second day everyone thought I was from there I was happy because I knew that my tan was looking good. I am Polish with olive skin and dark eyes and hair Polish people think that I’m lying about being Polish bc I don’t have the blond hair and blue eyes even though everyone in my family does. But if someone says that I’m Russian or Ukrainian or oh it’s the same thing hell no it’s not the same thing and I get mad but it’s not because of the skin colour it’s about how the Russian and Ukrainian people treated us so when D.R. people say that they are Dom. I think that they are just proud
When a Dominican say I am not black is a cultural thing not a racial thing. As a nation our DNA is about 60% African and 35% European. It happens that every time this people make a video they question ignorant people.
Diste en el blanco,estamos orgullosos de nuestros país.😊
Hello girls, as a Dominican I will explain to you in a clear and educational way, it should be noted that the girls in the tik tok videos were raised in the US, where they have a different doctrine regarding this but want to impose it on other countries reluctantly, 100 years before the English arrived in the US, the Spanish were already here, and a process called miscegenation took place, where natives, blacks and whites mixed (something that did not happen in the US) what happened? that the result of these mixtures was given a different name for each one due to their phenotype and genotypes, the mixture between blacks and whites were called mulattos, the whites with natives, criollos and the natives with blacks, zambos, and here is the origin of everything, then returning to the present day, a Dominican black thanks to miscegenation is not pure African, he has high European percentages, and the majority of mulattoes have more percentages of DNA that are more European than African, but what happens is that when a Dominican goes to the US he does not like to be classified the same as African Americans because in the country there is no such division of race, we are all one regardless of skin color unlike the US which did have racial problems and this is where this origin comes from with this doctrine, here we do not deny our African or European roots, what happens is that the US has a culture and obsession with racial division and wants to export those cultures to our countries, and therefore those girls raised in the US end up indoctrinated only with that point of view, I hope I was clear, greetings!
Hi Francesco, thank you so much for this and for taking your time to explain 🤝🤝we appreciate you
You’re more than clear 🙌
That makes no sense because most African Americans are also mixed with white! I have 30% European blood and also some Native American. I’m black. I look black. At the end of the day you are black. For example Obama cannot go around saying he’s not black because that’s just going to make him look insane! There’s a mental illness involved here!
Mmm I call bullshit😂 miscegenation actually did happen in America and all though there are a lot of mixed people in the DR and these racial categories do exist, there also a lot of black Dominican that are majority African dna who are almost 50/50 and just as popular as the high mixed race percentage in the DR. I’ve met Dominicans who look like they could’ve been my family members (me being a dark skinned black American) and I’ve seen vlogs of people going to the DR and it’s clear there are many black folks there so this whole “everyone is just mixed and has majority European DNA in the DR” is highly exaggerated. Also, why do y’all deny the racism and the anti-blackness in Dominican culture that’s heavy within y’all country? Y’all make it seem like racism is just a thing only Americans experience but if that were the case you wouldn’t have something like “mejorar la raza” or that awful president from the past name Trujillo who specifically wanted to erase African culture and only enforce European Spanish influence.
@@jailynjackson7867 No, miscegenation is not bullsh*t, because when the Anglo-Saxons were massacring all the natives, the Hispanics were already mixing with the indigenous people, the slavery of blacks in Latin America was not as cruel as it was in the Anglo-Saxon countries, while in the US interracial marriage was prohibited since the 1950s, here whites and blacks have mixed since the 1600s, when I tell you that here everyone is a mixture and yet the European percentage is the majority, I speak to you with data from many studies carried out here, whenever you want I will quote them to you, just as you have seen Dominicans who look like you, it does not mean that they are the majority of the population, but how ignorant "I have seen some DR vlogs" and by seeing them you made the geneological studies of an entire country, what a genius!😂 You guys always want to see everything only with yours magnifying glass, just because your country has been one of the most racist in humanity, does not mean that the other ones are the same, here we have had black presidents almost 200 years before the US elected one, who Trujillo was racist, there is no reason to generalize that we are all racists, you always want to change the narratives in your favor, stop being ignorant and do a little research
I don't believe we need to put western European made definitions of race from people of other countries. I never call Dominicans black just Dominican and most I've met in nyc at least look more mixed than black anyways. Same for East Africans. I just identify them by their country bc why in the world would a westerner like myself tell people with their own identity what they are. People used to identify on tribes and I'm in more agreement with that.
is that in the US there is a great obsession with racial division
Obama is mixed, nobody has ever said white or mixed president. Let's say a Dominican girl is mixed, most black people in USA are mixed due to ra**. J Cole is mixed technically. He isn't classified as a white rapper. If you walk around like Wesley Snipes talking about "but I have white blood in my family somewhere" then you definitely hate the black side in you. Dominicans celebrate Columbus - it's a major holiday there. They refer to Haiti liberating them from slavery as an invasion and attack on their nation, because in their hearts, they are wanna Spaniards. A bunch of sudacas who dislike blackness.
There is no denying that Dominicans are either black, native white or of various mixtures. The problem is when those willfully deny their African hereditary.
There are 20 countries in East Africa, and only those in the horn countries (and certainly not all the people there even) have ad-mixture. These two Kenyan content creators are also East African as Kenya is in East Africa, again one of the 20 countries in that region. And many of them can fit comfortably in the western, southern and central regions of Africa as well. Even in west Africa there are diverse phenotypes.
Whether you want to use a word or not it doesn’t matter. When people see an Asian they see an asian they might not be able to guess his or her country but they know they’re Asian. Even in Dr there’s Asians that are Dominican and when other Dominican see them they say chino (Chinese) cus they know what they see.
Aren’t y’all the same ones telling mixed American to claim mixed and not black??
Esta es la misma gente que atacan a Cardi B, Zoe Saldaña y Ice Spice en redes sociales cuando dicen que son negras.
No that's the work of snakes and the weak minded.
USA Congress/leaders >Europe Leaders = Highly Complex Money Laundering allows them to have more money to blow, really a endless source of money (How Do They Cover It Up?: Well war, sacrifice life of land and people, lie, steal, create villains, make you feel like it's nothing you can do through a complex yet subtle manner and etc... Also we can't forget the gains and head start the got from slavery, plus the horrors that followed after slaver. Why you think USA really sending all that money to these other countries, that money get split and sent so many ways and it happens in states in the country on smaller scales.
At the beginning of this video, Godfrey had me in tears!!🤣🤣
Godfrey kow key wishes he was Dominican it's like those girls that have the ultimate crush on you they will argue with you and obsess about you believe me I know
"black" is already a problematic word and it came from the western social construct. This is to describe anyone who looks African or like they have African features. Irregardless of language or ethnicity. It's a blanket term used to generalize. But people outside of the states can find it confusing because they may connect the term with American culture.
True, we as Americans use black for culture too which imo is incorrect
Exactly.
This is exactly what I thought would be the reason.
that's what i was getting out of it earlier in the video too that there so much nay say from dominicans against it because of what it may mean to them vs what is means to us in America.
@@Abstract.Noir414 It's not incorrect
I'm dominican. I'm 53% european, 38% african, and the rest indiginous taino. I consider myself mulatto, and that usually the description for dominicans with similar dna. The majority of dominican population is described as mulatto.
Exactly… the because who need to hear this will not listen and would rather inflict hateful insults on Dominicans due to being Envious.
Idk who told you that but, I guess.
@@MividaBrazyy What do you mean with "who told me that?
@@MividaBrazyy If you mean my DNA, so science told me that, who else?
@@rafaelpolanco9672 there is only black and white so what science?
3:35 she doesn't know her Dominican history. Spaniards mixed with Taino women from the beginning. Enriquillo, the first Taino to lead a rebellion against Spaniards, was half Basque. The year was 1519. Enriqullo was victorious in 1533. Enriquillo's wife was the grand daughter of Taina Princess Anacaona. Enriquillo's wife was half Taina and half Spanish. The Spanish had a term for Taino women who married Spaniards . They were called "mujeres de isla." The facts are these, the Spanish crown initially prohibited intermarriage but couldn't resist human nature. Those single Spaniards hooked up with the Tainas. Miguelico Diaz de Aux was the first mestizo (son of a Spaniard and a Taina) on record. He was born 1496. This lady might be well intentioned but shes projecting the American experience on the Island of Española.
It is because she is not even Dominican, USA does not have business teaching our history.
It is because she is just running her mouth and making a profit distorting our nama, she is an American with a Dominican parent,so she said. She does not know one thing about us, about our history, and the abuse our people suffer from our neighbors.
''Black'' is a description, is not a ''race'' of people, nor a monolithic group nor a Lineage.
Black is a lineage in America. But u alrdy knnew thst
The world knows what black means when referring to people. This is not the place for semantics. We did not write blacks law dictionary. 👁👁🇯🇲
Its called a byword👈👈, literally our enemies name us black , and my people won't stop and think that there's anything strange about that?
Deuteronomy 28:-37
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Mezanmi 😂
Let me just say if they say they are not black. Then they are not black.
thank you!!!
Yes and we are right, when a Dominican in the USA, tell you, im not black , it means, i dont belong to the black culture, the afroamerican culture, I belong to the Hispanic, to the latinos....
Black is beautiful
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Black is always beautiful and supreme. Love from North America
If it is so beautiful why do you feel the need to beg mixed people to associate with you.
@@onelevel2346 That is Afrocentric.
Mirrors are not very expensive, get one!!!
Because they are Dominican. They don't refer to themselves as black. Their national Identity is Dominican. Culture and everything.
The truth they are obsessed with white. Most are light skinned self hating negroes
Also becuz racially we are visibly and evenly mixed race. We are not black, black is pure or predominant African blood, these two ladies are black
There's no such race as Dominican. It's an island. Just like Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba. The founder of Dominican Republic was mulatto. Juan Pablo Duarto
@mont7481 funny how you liked your own comment... yes we are mulattos, visibly mixed race people with evenly mixed DNA, going back centuries and generations, mixed especially to this degree is NOT black or white, we are our own thing, mixed is its own thing, historically in DR and other spanish speaking countries there was heavy mixing, not like Jamaica, Haiti, US south, where the dominate black population was segregated... also his name was Duarte, if u going to say it say it correctly
@mont7481 mixed race mulatto are NOT black. Dominicans are mixed, visibly and evenly mixed since the 1600s, there was far more mixing in Spanish speaking countries.
You ladies are very interesting, I'm intrigued by the way you summarize social issues, keep growing, and stay original .
Thank you Brother 🙏🏻
They are also very very very akin to the sphinx. It's amazing really 🤩💐🤩💐🤩💐🤩💐❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
I mean awe inspiring, amazing 😮❤
We Dominicans aren't Black as in African American black or even African from Africa. Our culture is way too mixed to identify it as one. We were colonized. We identify with Cuba, Puerto Rico, we share very similar histories. This obsession with Dominicans and what they are is just stupid to me. I'm Dominican and no one has ever confused me or mistook me for black. Just stop with the obsession and nonsense.
Some so call African-American don't consider themselves African or black either it's made up term. Some of us consider naming ourselves American or some are Indians. People from Cuba, Dominicans ECT don't come to the USA if you don't want to be label black sad to say.
@@BRKS627right…….. Bc your black ass is native Americans….. ninja you came from Africa. Unless you’re an native American. You have no right to tell someone to not….. come here
Most people don't call people black just because they are dominican. They call people that look like they are of African decent black. My problem with I'm not black im dominican stuff is that race and nationality are Two separate things and it also assumes that other groups that acknowledge african ancestry aren't mixed as well. For instance there are mexicans that identify as indigenous. Ive met a lot of them and they dont say "im not indigenous im mexican"I dont know too many groups that their only identity is their national identity. You can say I'm dominican and acknowledge spanish and african ancestry. its fine to acknowledge all parts of whatever you are.
@@macalloway1that's exactly what we do, Brother. I am Dominican and I consider myself mixed.we don't talk about race that much, Neither we care. The thing that we don't understand is why a country with so different skins colors is wanted to be call just black. It is like calling the US a black country because they have black people. It doesn't make sense. Before you say blabla bla you'll black. That's no true we are diverse and I'm telling you with knowledge of the case as a real Dominican 30 years living in the country, with family of all colors you can imagine, from black dark tone to white blonde hair people with blue eyes and we are all dominicans.
@@pedroabrahampolancobeltran4382You answered your own question. Why would a country with so many skin colors want to be black? Because that is our heritage. That's what we were called ever since we got to America. That's what our culture develop separately as. Our soul food is black culture, hip hop, r&b, jazz, rock n roll all of the inventions we made are black inventions.. if you want to be super technical Dominicans were called black to even the natives were reclassified as black but since you have your own ethnicity to me your not black. You are however a Negro or negroid according to anthropology because our genes are dominant in those other genes are taken over by negroid genes. That why you're usually isnt brittle and stringy and why you have dark skin and fuller features.
But, Are they BLACK?
I don't think so.
I am not white and I am not black either, we dominicans know that... and in that equation the most important race in America is being left out, the one that was here thousands of years before the whites and the blacks arrived on this part of the world (the brown Indians). Of course our skin color is darker than white (white plus 2 darker ORIGINAL races), but of course our skin color is also lighter than black (black plus 2 lighter ORIGINAL races). In America, 3 original races were mixed in their supposed discovery. Do you understand why we don't say that we are ONE COLOR? Races are more than just black and white. ❤️
Nice reaction.
Estas personas quieren que seamos negros africanos a la mala. Yo vivo en los Estados Unidos y viajo a mi natal país todo el tiempo y estos hijos de ya tu sabes, nunca an visitado an Africa y solo viven jodiendo con el mismo tema. Viviendo en el pasa, se hunden y quieren llevarse a otros con ellos.
Soy descendiente Taino y de las Islas Canarias, somos una nación con descendientes de muchos lugares del mundo 🌎 y del medio oriente, de ÑAPA.
@@eclesiastico5858 totalmente de acuerdo!! Me encantaría ver una interacción de ellos con alguno de mis amigos chinos o cualquier otro nacido aquí que les diga "soy dominicano"... ahí sí que se les va a explotar la cabeza!! 😅
@@iohannsepulveda7605 la risa que me da cuando dicen que , oye esto, nos auto-odiamos porque no reconocemos que somos negros . Y ya tenemos la lengua pela que somos muchas rasas sancochando más de 500 años. No ombe , que nos suelten banda ya.
I never heard Dominicans deny their European ancestry; however, they will go miles on end to deny their African roots. And leave the whole Taino thing out of it because the percentage of Taino DNA is very low in Caribbean, especially in Dominican Republic. DR is predominately Black because even the mixed Dominicans have Afrocentric features and no one will ever mistake them for a European.
@@CerciRodriguez Well, if you've never heard it, you've already heard it from me (I'm Dominican from DR) and that's how we all think here. 😉 We have European ancestry, of course, but also American (native) and African (the Blacks that Spain brought as help and live together and mix, not like the British and the French who transported hundreds of thousands and segregated them). If we were called White, you would be seeing the "I'm not White" conversation, but since the attack is calling us Black (but I understand, you were taught that White is pure white and Black is everyone else 😅), then that's why you see so much than we defend ourselves from that attack. We Hispanics know that 3 races became 6 when they came together in the discovery of America, so diverse, so rich!! ❤️
If you are Dominican, why would you be a word made up by a foreign-born person with a different culture?
If you are not Dominican why do you care what they call themselves? Leave those people alone and worry about yourselves and the group you belong to.
Because when they got sh0t by the police, they will be running to OUR ORGANIZATIONS for help. All of them do it. They aren't black until the white man sends them a wake up call.
They are obsessed😂 no matter what they say Dominicans are a proud people and don't care what the afrocentrics have to say! We are so cool and it's seems we are in fashion and everyone is claiming us😂
@@emmasarlanis If you were that cool and that great, you wouldn't have to leave your homeland. 🤷
@smashedphone4200 who the FK are you to tell people where they could live....you don't know the nothing about me so fk off and worry about your black ass😂 I own properties here and DR too and I will come and go because I can sweetheart
Thank you!
The Caribbean countries are proud of our African side, I'm from the country of Belize 🇧🇿
Hi Tanya😊, we're glad to have someone from Belize in the house. The first time we heard about Belize was from a movie, the series was called queen of the south and Belize looked and sounded so exotic and beautiful 🥰
I'm white, grew up in majority "Hispanic" Caribbean neighborhoods in the northeast U.S. Many from the islands. At that time mostly PR, some Cubans, Dominicans. As a kid I noticed how racist they were against black people. Even the kids. But I never had any problems.
The obsession of African Americans with Dominicans is Laughable..
It's insane!
This people (the video) has nothing good to do with their lives. They are angers, bitters, with bad social feelings. They want we (Dominicans people) be same like they are. But No way for. No chance for. Just leave us alone and happy
They always licking Latinos balls begging them to be black saying we the same people to Latinos.
Then they'll tell Caribbean and Africans we're not the same people
African Americans are the most ignorant prideful bozos I tell you.
@@rosariofernandez2230 Like how yall do with haitians? STFU
The obsession with being "white" by Dominicans is laughable, sad and brain washed. Trujillio did a number on D.R!
As a black man i dont care if you dont claim black. This is a non issue. Many Dominicans describe themselves as Dominican so what. Some say they are black some say they are white ..who cares...
It's not about you caring or who is caring. Its the fact that those are the same people that will claim blk when they come to the states for government/student assistance. It's black when it benefits them, and so many are starting to see it.
because being dominican is a nationality not a race! there are only 3 races, black white and asain, everything else is a nationality, ethnicity, or a mix of all three! people need to know that
@@crossfade5107 No one cares the only people that continue to make race an issue are those that hate darker skinned people , as if darker skinned people should hate themselves because they are dark.. This whole race thing i see as a childish game that too many adults have joined and made toxic.
@@circle7205 😂 aint type of assistance in any country will benefit those who use it . Why do you care that they are claiming black when it benefits them 😂😂 such childish thinking. Did you see every Dominican do what u just claimed. Guess what i does not matter cause if they click latino they will get the same benefits just the same..
Not me
Leave Dominicans alone dont tell them who they are.And if one get upset dont worry about it because you not Dominican.
Thanks God he is not
@@rosariofernandez2230 lady we, i dont care...yall stay style jacking though
@@Abstract.Noir414you guys definitely care hence why this video was made and many other about us you guys have us in y’all mouth more than a mint 😂
@lolitah8560 bruh I only see you mofos
online I don't live anywhere near yall. Trust me we don t give no fucks, we fuck with boricuas.Theres some bs between us here and there but that's it
It happens when two groups are similar and different. Also those folks might be black africans or black caribbeans asking that shit too. Who knows
On another note they might have a point cause yall dudes tend to look like black americans when it comes to style and dress. Even mexicans/ chicanos have their own style .
Plus theres No dominicans like that in the midwest..keep that bs yall be on in NYC and Connecticut it ain't sweet over here...
Trust me I cringe at that shit too maybe it's a hard concept for some of em. If someone asked me are dominicans black I'd say 👎 but clear it up saying only those who decend from English and French speaking islanders, and Semana americans decendants of AAs.
Again, be who you want to be just leave us out of it then maybe the grouping will disappear ( shrugs) then again east coast blacks dudes are different
@@lolitah8560Dominican hype train needs to end why can’t Central Americans be the center of Hispanic heritage month for one year
The Obsession with Dominicans is worrisome, didnt know we were that cool.
We are fabulous....and the more claiming they do....the more fabulous we become 😂 they just jealous 😂
@@emmasarlanis yep, go to sosua and these dudes commenting are the ones tricking on DR hookers.
It’s positively pathological, these people can’t help themselves, they have to be in your business, determining how you may identify and what label you may use. I’m not even Dominicana and they’ve already gotten on my last nerve.
I’m not. They really obnoxious and lame and built bad. I noticed they love to say they DR or PR and I could care less. Just can’t stand when they say ngga like they can all of a sudden identify. If you not a ngga you can’t say ngga.
@@vanessashimoni6548Nobody talking about your pale self… lol
Is not just a boat stop it's a whole culture difference.
I think everyone is missing the point, specially "the Dominicans" in those videos which have probably lost their identity from living most of their lives in USA. We, Dominicans are not against the black race or any race, the point is that DR is a diverse country with many different types of races, we look like Africans, Indians, Europeans, Americans, and others. Now, white or clear skin people are a minority though, but we have lots of people that look like Indians, now are Indians black too?. The reason why we don't like being called black is because is an over simplification, probably because in this world you need to be 100% white to be called white, but 1% black to be called black, but that doesn't mean this is correct, and we do not follow that line of reasoning either.
How about it's just non of their business! It lunacy how obsessed these people are with Dominicans😂 the History of DR is the same as the USA as far as who was there first! the island had native Tainos 1st. European 2nd Africans slaves 3rd.....meaning a mixture of all.....some have more some have less! As opposed to Haiti who are 95% black!!!In the big scheme of things is just non of their business 😂
@@emmasarlanisThis proud American Mullata supports you. They need to worry about their own house.
They're just jealous they don't have this beautiful combination!! Like they're even talking about us in Africa😂 a continent we have never step foot on😂🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Dominicans born and raised in the US are obsessed with race and are very disconnected from Dominican history. No our history does not mirror the one of the US. A civil war was fought in the US over race. DR did not fight a war over race. Our forefathers called for the unity of races since 1844. We have been mixing for 500 yrs and and genetic tests prove over and over again that we are a mixed race mainly : African ,Spaniard and Indigenous. Whereas the genetic tests of Black Americans is mostly of African ancestry.
I worked with a lot of Guyanese who are darker than I am and they get upset if I refer to them as black. This is how far we have been removed from our true identify that some of us even feel ashamed to be associated with our own race
It’s very annoying, sad and shameful to hear some brothers and sisters denying themselves their identity.
Black in America means Black American. Also you dont mix with foreigners even if u share skin color
Actually, approximately 50% of Guyanese are of Indian heritage. Their foreparents were brought to Guyana as indentured servants after slavery was over.
@@alphabeta51 Okay? Stay in your country.
@@DoDahhhhhhhhhBlack is Black.Stop being brainwashed.
Im Dominican, Im not black. My roots come from Spain and the native Taino peoples that originally lived on the hispañola island.
Remain with your fake colour we don't need additional black people.
That's possible your DNA might not have any African DNA 🧬. But you are the minority.
But blck plp want to push us to say that we are from Afrkan.
You can be Dominican and not black but you can’t say that being Dominican means you are not black. You may not be a black dominican but black Dominicans exist. Pay attention.
@@cloudyskies7591those blck people that say that they are Dominican, really they are Haitian that want to adopt la DOMINICANIDAD. Second as a Dominican if compare myself with those twins and really white.
I am a Dominican that was born and raised in NY and have been living in the DR for a decade now. My kids were raised here. The problem is that ppl in the US: the society and education are constantly labeled and taught about the history of racism etc. The DRs history is very different when it comes to race and while I’m not saying there’s no such thing is racism here, it’s no where near as pronounced. It was difficult for me to explain to my kids about racism because they’ve never had to experience it and being surrounded by so many different shades of light and dark skin; they just see it as a hair color: just a way to describe someone. Being darker or lighter does not imply a specific tone of voice or accent, behavior, lifestyle, musical preference, etc. It’s not a big deal when you have one cousin who looks European and another looking African here…because it’s the norm. In fact it’s weird if you don’t have that type of mix within your family. African Americans and Dominicans raised in the US just see it as us denying our roots but we are just nowhere near as obsessed with race and those type of labels. From here, they understand that African Americans see themselves as a separate culture so when they do to the US they specify they are Dominican. Not as a race bc it’s just not a thing. We don’t say “African Dominican or Caucasian Dominican, etc. We just say Dominican and the racial mix is a given-and a fact. We don’t see how having one parent who is dark and another light automatically makes you black (ie one drop rule) just like it won’t make you white. Obama for us would be a mixed mulato man and that’s that. And technically, we are right. But people are so fixated and convinced that the one drop rule is real that they can’t see beyond that. Honestly I feel so liberated from not having to be constantly reminded that I’m different and what my race or ethnicity is. Bc at the end of the day, those reminders are just there to try to hold you down and remind you that you’re “less than”..and it’s all BS. The irony is that these videos want to make Dominicans look stupid, racist, and ignorant but we are not bitter, or have a victim mentality; we feel free and race is not something that occupies our day to day thinking.
One other thing I’d like to add. I remember being young and saying I am black and African Americans would look at me and say “no you ain’t”..in other words I’m not black enough to “understand” their “struggles.” But when we say we aren’t black they can’t stand that either. Either way it’s a problem I guess 🤷🏽♂️
Excellent point from both of you! Thanks for sharing your thoughts
I’m not Dominicana but I’m so tired of people getting triggered because Dominicans see themselves as Dominicans and not African. I don’t see Dominicans as African/Black, I see them as Dominicans. I honestly don’t understand why people are offended by the fact that Dominicans are proud of their ethnicity and nationality.
Ultimadamente cada persona tiene derecho a auto definirse y su perspectiva debe ser respetada.
Dominicans went out of their way to beg the US to help them with the “blacks” of Haiti in the 1800s, also curated immigration from specifically from Europe and last but not least, Trujillo the butcher. I’d say a lot of Dominicans are obsessed about race, and it occupies their daily thinking - especially finding ways not to be, or associated with, blacks.
One of the best comments and explanations ever. The blacks won't acknowledge it. Living in the US it'll be very hard to find a black call themselves American. They run away from the title American. They gravitate to black or African American. It bothers the blacks in America that other people in the world don't view it as them.
Dude in the beginning of the video had cracking up. 😂 🤣🤣
You are a pretty good job on your research of Dominican republic, but in fact the entire Latin America is pretty much the same way if you should do a study on Argentina you will see that they actually wiped out their black population many of them will survive had to leave many of the countries in Latin America Aberdeen call whitening of the population where they actually Force dark-skinned people to enter mix with lighter complexion people especially the women. ❤
Interesting, will definitely look them up
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What research?
All they did was show two videos.
They didn’t stay in DR for 4 months researching…
@@FactChecker1378 if your question is at my statement then I'm afraid you like a little bit of overstanding, because I don't think anyone said that they visited the DR they comment was about the information that they mentioned about the DR considering they did not know anything so I think you have it wrong my friend. Try to comprehend what you're reading.
I've actually met an Afro-Argentian at my job and he identified as Black/Negro with indigenous roots. Much like a lot of Black Americans. Try actually talking to people
If they are mixed, then they are not just blk.
MOST African Americans are ALSO mixed... Needless to say the very races they have running in their blood see them as black...NOT the other races they are mixed with.
It's the same with so call black Americans
Everybody is mixed
@@edwardlowe3460 Well, it's obvious that she is.
@@edwardlowe3460 no Dominicans are mixed. White Americans are white and black Americans are black.
The obsession with Dominicans is their only response 😂
Um because "Black" in America refers to African Americans which are a different group.
Without watching the video I can tell you why. People from the Caribbean, Domican Repubic, Puerto Rico and Cuba are tri-racial. Our heritage is European, Indian and African-from those 3 races and cultures we created our own blend.Tthe most similar are DR, PR and Cuba. We don't identify as colors (our families are all mixed) we identify as our culture our country. It's that simple and no we don't have colorism in the caribbean that's only with American Blacks who identify as a color- we don't . My family is mixed and we are Puerto Rican that's it. Don't put your Americna color agendas on us. Jamaica and Haiti culture are different with a diffferent language. Jamaica enlish was a Brittish colony, Haiti french was a French colony. Dr, PR & Cuba were Spanish colonies. But none of the above mentioned islands identify as color, we don't have black puerto ricans or white puerto ricans we are just all Puerto Rican. This is the same in DR & Cuba Why is this concept so difficult for Americans especially black Americans to understand or why they feel the need to impose color" issues where none exist?
Great video. I'm from nyc. Dominican origins. The majority of my family is tan or light skinned and a few, more darker in completion. With brown eyes, green eyes, blue eyes. I did my dna testing im 33% black & 66% European with mostly coming from Spain & Portuguese. You look at me you wont say im black or white you will say oh hes spanish. I have thick straight hair thin nose. So being Dominican, like the 1st lady you posted video is correct that we identify more so with culture or language. Also we are mixed people. I have friends that are asian, Jewish, Arabic as well as black or European that live not only in the states but also born in the D.R. most of my family have "good" or straight hair are fair completion or European "features" and some with African "features". We all know what we are even if we are mixed. We even call ourselves negro or Morena when saying hi to one another even if we are black or fair or tanned completion. But what we identify isn't really race since the country is mixed we always say we are spanish right because of our culture & language. Even when filling documents or even school testing in the States they give the option to put spanish for race, now they put spanish and or country of origin. Because we are mixed people we are the most mixed country in this side of the hemisphere the most mulatto people. But now the word mulatto is considered offensive from reading online. But mulatto you rarely see on documents. Now when they give more then one option I put mixed or black and white or spanish from the the D.R. the problem was years ago there's been issues between the D.R. & Haiti and the world automatically say we are racist. It's not about race its about a country having issues with another country for hundreds of years of small wars and the poor country citizens migrating over to a country also poor but is doing better. But people don't don't see the help the D.R. has gave to Haiti. The D.R. is the only country actually helping the best it can more so then any other country and there's tons of Haitians in D.R. for years working & living with no issue but of course things do happen like any country but rasict nah that's just over exaggerated. The U.S and many other country could take the 1st 2nd 3rd spot for that. But to just say we are black isn't 100% true. My mother is fair skin good hair & her side of the family have light hair and colored eyes while my dad side is more tan and some black. So the 1% drop doesn't make much sense. So what if your family is black and a few white people we don't have 1% white so your white rule 😂. It should go by how you appear to others and how you, yourself identify. I mean we do it with gender and sex identify. Today I feel like grey hair fox lol now about Trujillo was awful times people where scared for there lives but people weren't rasict like a white supremacist. We have as much racism like any other country towards anyone one white black Indian Chinese jewish Arabic. We just all need to have interracial relationship like that in 100 years from now we will all just be tanned color and no talk about race. One ❤
Alright Ralfy, we hear you
@@twinshangoutkenya 😂 sorry it was long but its an important topic. Too much misunderstanding. Great page too 👍🏽
I love this channel! These women are brilliant!
Thank you so much brother 🙏🏻 and we're glad you enjoyed the episode 😊
I’m Dominican. We are so mixed that we don’t identify with race. I don’t understand what the fucking problem is.
WE ARE A TAINO DICENDENT AND MIX OTHER RACES IS A ISLAND !!THE RIGHT THING TO SAY IS I'M A PERSON OF COLOR AND MY IDENTITY IS OF A CARIBBEAN HISPANIC!! MIND SOME ARE NOT, MAYBE CREO OR OF OTHER MIX RACE!! MY CULTURE HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH MY IDENTITY AS NATIVE DOMINICAN!! PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND REJECT SOMETHINGS HAVING TO DO WITH THERE CULTURE!!
I'M BLACK SOUNDS RACIST!! BY A FRUSTRATING PERSON, MAYBE THEY HAVE A REASON FOR THAT EXPRESSION!! WE ARE NOT ONE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN!! OUR BELIEVE AND CULTURE AND SOCIAL CLASS MIGHT PLAY A DIFFERENCE AS ONE PEOPLE!!
Black Americans seem to be the only ones hung up on labels. Nigerians or Jamaicans don't call themselves African American. They know who they are. Move on.
No It's part of USA label people by their looks. Black Americans don't control cast system. Yes black Americans know who they are they're not Africans. Yeah move on
It's actually about understanding your ethnicity not your race. There's one race of people and it's the human race. Your ethnic background determines your identity based upon your roots...the heritage from where your family originated.
Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!......James Brown!!!
Not all Dominicans are black. It’s an ethnicity not a race!!!!
No, it's a nationality not an ethnicity.
@@TalkinnGrubbinMedia no it’s an ethnic background just like Puerto Rican or any other. You can be white and be South African.
I am Puerto Rican and we understand that we are mixed, 64% European, 21% African, and 15% Native Taino Indians. We have black, white and mixed color people in our beautiful island and those of us who reside in the US. This is the beauty of our rainbow and Puerto Ricans understand that we are a mixed race. You can see the whitest to blackest in shades but we identify as Puerto Ricans in solidarity. Dominicans should accept their ancestry and roots. That is what makes them Dominican.
So the one drop rule doesn't apply to Puertoricans? Because according to them you're all black too....since you have the same racial makeup as Dominicans Tahino, Spanish and African 😂
They don't want the value of their neighborhood to go down. " Hell no, im not Black" no no no
" We have to Fight, fight for our Rights "
Bob Marley 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙄😎
If someone says they are not black or white is there business is not every body business I make my business.
If ppl are comfortable and confident with referring to themselves as black then be proud and happy with your blackness. If certain groups of ppl do not identify or refer to themselves as black, that is their their personal choice. There are “black” ppl all over the world, every ‘black’ person’s experience is different and most ppl identify with their nationality. There is no country called black!
Unfortunately most people identify with what those who oppressed them call them especially down there in the Caribbean and the United States of America too. Those Europeans have so many people of African descent so confused as to who and what they are it's sad.
@@denniebone388 No, los DOMINICANOS si sabemos quienes somos y no somos "afro" porque si dijeramos eso estariamos negando nuestra herencia Europea y Taina. Asi que se pueden envenenar ustedes mismos con su Odio 🖕🏽.
❤BRAVO YOUNG LADIES! WE NEED THIS CONVERSATION! KEEP UP THIS LIBERATING DIALOG!
Hi Jayne thank you and we appreciate you for watching 😊♥️
Dominican republic is Taino super power nation. We tainos will never be forgotten.
THEY ARE NOT DOMINICANS...CLEAR THAT CRAP UP. These people are from the Dominican Republic, not from the Commonwealth of Dominica. These are two different islands in the Caribbean. #DominicanRepublic #caribbean #dominica
Please do not get the Dominican Republic mixed up with Dominica. The Dominican Republic was previously called Hispaniola until it changed its name.
@marekcracovia4061solo habian Tainos en ese tiempo, cuando llegaron los españoles y conquistaron la isla se llamo La Hispaniola, luego 100 años despues llegaron los esclavos africanos a la parte este de la isla. El Dominicano no es africano ni negro es MESTIZO.
I'm a Black American and proud of it!
Proud of what
@@Greek329 like he or she said mayo man, there blackness end of discussion 💯😒✌🏼
@O.G.Reddawg80 I still don't know what your so proud of.
@@Greek329 I know you don't, because you come from a dusty Irish background I'm FBA proud I don't know if you know my ancestors built America misguided simpleton😂🙄😒💯
@@Greek329 Ok Irish dude, I know why you say that typical haterish bull💩 look at your ppl look at FBA'S who built America blood sweat & tears💯 and your ppl couldnt survive without blk ppl lmao that's why your mad huh 😂💯🤷🏼♂️
I am Dominican, but as a kid growing up in the northeast, some of my Afro-American friends as a kid would always ask me where are you from; I would always tell them I am American, and they would say, nah, where are your parents from because of my Spanish last name and I would say, they were from the Dominican Republic, and guess what my friends would tell me??? You ain't really black; you are Spanish. I was so confused as a child. However, it does not stop there. My son is going through the same thing now in Virginia, and his Afro-American friends are telling him the same thing as I was told as a child back in the 80's, you are not black; you are Spanish.
If I were in DR, and someone said to me, "You're not Black your mixed." I would say: "What would you call an Asian in Asia." OK, now "What would you call an Asian in your country." But an African brought over in chains to Dominican Republic, he's no long African, he's Spanish?
Exactly. Black Americans simply don’t understand the complexity of being mixed race, but instead of digging deeper, they just call us racists.
I posted something similar. Growing up I wasn't Black enough because I'm mixed and light skin.
@@s.a.muhammed6355 No, because we’re mixed and none of us has lived in Africa, nor our parents, nor our grandparents.
@@dumbphonemom Being mixed is admitting multiple ethnicity. It seems the European heritage is embraced while Native and African ignored. The irony is that Spain was ruled by Moors for nearly 800 years. What does "Moreno," mean?
How did Arabic words like "As Sukkar" or "Azucar" become common place? Put another way Spanish culture cannot separate itself from being influenced by Africans, or Moors.
Based upon your claim of not being born in Africa. We have to conclude that most Dominicans were not born in Spain either. Yet they express themselves in Spanish.
After listening to this video and for this reason I ask you, what race is a person who is multiracial...??? If someone has two, three or more different racial combinations, then what genetically is the race of that person? Which one race does he/she picks? Does one race cancel out the other?
Multi racial; you're from the human race. Not the horse race, not the dog race, maybe the rat race.
Exactly 💯 I am tri racial and these people want that I recognize myself as black, no in DR the race does not important
@@moescritics8391- I agree. In the DR race is a non-issue, people do not focus or are obsessed about it.
Our race is called the pardo race. Tri-racial descendants of the Americas
Thanks for taking your time to inform us about this issue.💟
You're welcome Martty
Y'all are cute..GREAT POST
Thank you 🙏🏻
I’m Dominican and proud of it Damit.
I’m Taino Damngit.
Jamaicans are tainos too 🎉
@@kratomqueen3899 it’s good to know this history. Caribbean’s 💯 🇩🇴🇯🇲
Taino were slaughtered y'all
Are black and biracials
There’s no such thing as Taino
Im a light skin Dominican born in usa
and im still tried as a black man
and my family is all colors
I have brothers and sisters
from mother side that are black and brown skin
We Dominicans have a ethnicity
that is very mixed .
Trujillo grand mother was Haitian
Trujillo wasn't the only dictator that way ..
All the dictators of Latin America
all latin America and the Caribbean
face the same problem haiti as well
Puerto Rico. Colombia. Panama. Cuba.
🇺🇸 USA forced us all into
racially profiling each other
Every hispanic nation
has darker people on one side of the country
And whites on the other its not just in
Dominican Republic .
This is why we need to stop using colors to group people.
THIS IS CLEARLY A SPIRIT OF SELF HATE......THIS IS SO SAD AND PITIFUL......A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEIR PAST...
ASK THE POLICE AND THE EMPLOYEES ABOUT HOW THEY SEE YOU....
What about the mixed raced people who hate their European ancestry? Isn't that self hatred or do they get a pass because hating Europeans is cool and trendy?
@@JoseMartinez-bh1nghe won’t answer it because it does not fit his Afro Centric narrative…. I have been dealing with these Afro Centric for years when it comes to them harassing Latinos and our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics. Behind the scenes it has nothing to do with promoting Black pride or Black Unity…. In reality it is the lust for non-Black features they want to claim as theres. They fetishize Dominicans because they desire to be with Dominican women and desire mixed features because they dislike themselves. They hate how Dominicans do not care about them, they hate that Dominicans and other mixed Hispanics alike do not prioritize there Black agendas over Hispanic related issues. That is why these type of Dominican insults videos are trendy. We know this because if you look up every Dominican DNA video you will see nothing but black comments harassing them… whereas Dominicans never talk about them.
he won’t answer it because it does not fit his Afro Centric narrative…. I have been dealing with these AfroCentric for years when it comes to them harassing Latinos and our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics. Behind the scenes it has nothing to do with promoting Black pride or Black Unity…. In reality it is the lust for non-Black features they want to claim as theres. They fetishize Dominicans because they desire to be with Dominican women and desire mixed features because they dislike themselves. They hate how Dominicans do not care about them, they hate that Dominicans and other mixed Hispanics alike do not prioritize there Black agendas over Hispanic related issues. They hate how Dominican women want nothing to do with them. That is why these type of Dominican insults videos are trendy. We know this because if you look up every Dominican DNA video you will see nothing but black comments harassing them… whereas Dominicans never talk about them.
he won’t answer it because it does not fit his AfroCentric narrative…. I have been dealing with these AfroCentrics for years when it comes to them harassingLatinos and our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics. Behind the scenes it has nothing to do with promoting Black pride or Black Unity…. In reality it is the lust for non-Black features they want to claim as theres. They fetishize Dominicans because they desire to be with Dominican women and desire mixed features because they dislike themselves. They hate how Dominicans do not care about them, they hate that Dominicans do not prioritize there agendas over Hispanic related issues. They hate how Dominican women want nothing to with them. That is why these type of Dominican insults videos are trendy. We know this because if you look up every Dominican DNA video you will see nothing but black comments harassing them… whereas Dominicans never talk about them.
@@JoseMartinez-bh1ng He will not answer because it does not fit his narrative. I have been dealing with AfroCentrics and their attacks on our Dominican brothers and sisters who are proud Hispanics for along time. The truth is this, behind the scene it has nothing to do with promoting pro blackness or black unity… it is actually the lust for non-black features they want to claim for their own. That is why they fetishize Dominican women because they dislike themselves and desire mixed features. That is why they force Dominicans to identify as black so they can feel better about themselves and care so much about Dominicans identify as. They hate how Dominicans do not care about there problems, they hate that Dominicans do care about their agendas, they hate that Dominican women want nothing to do with them. That is why Dominican videos like this are trendy. We know this because on every Dominican DNA video you see nothing but blackcomments harassingDominicans. In response Dominicans never talk about them or say anything back to them.
If they're in their own country they're free to identify or align with whoever they want. When they go to the US, that's a different story because the race dynamics are different there. Their relations with Haiti has to do with both race and history. The Haitians invaded and ruled Dominican republic in the 1800's, multiple bouts of fighting followed throughout the 1800's. Naturally distrust will exist, it's like Kenya being invaded by Tanzania multiple times, what would the level of trust be? Interesting topic though, normally black men like this topic 🤣 because Dominican women are known for their beauty and they want to pull the 'black card' to get close to them 😅.
😂😂😂Alright, makes so much sense😅
Lol dont need a black card to get close to a Dominican woman lol😂
Beauty is a broad definition and I am not impressed whenever by the western average person definition. I am always dissecting one's commitment when said looking for more especially whenever someone in the westerners world say it.
I am not easily impressed
Hmmm🤔. . . .so what are Kenyan women known for? What are Ghanaian women known for? What are African-American women known for? Are these women supposed to be any less beautiful than women from the Dominican Republic? 😶
Your wrong the British and Spanish invaded Dominican Republic and Africans slaves migrated to to the island when slavery ended. The African and Taino tribe merge and fought along side to help conquer the land. Overtime when the British and Spaniards lost the war they fled the island because they lost the war. Their was only Africans and Taino tribes there. After the war their wasn’t that much of the Taino Tribe left because they all was killed before the Africans reach the island. Their was more Africans on the island than Taino. The Spaniards came back to the island and made a deal with the president of D.R and decided to share their resources but in order to do that they had to separate their selves from the Africans. That’s when Hati was founded because the president of D.R start forcing Africans to move to the other side of the Island. The Haitians went to War with the Spaniards & Dominicans fought and won their independence. If it wasn’t for the Africans D.R wouldn’t even exist, yall used us and went back to the colonizers soon as they decide to share resources. Theirs a reason when Dominicans take a DNA test your 50% European and 50% African the Taino tribe died many years ago it’s only few that have 5% - 10% Taino left in their blood. How can you be ignorant or hate people that help conquer the land?
The Dominican Republic is a nation with a rich and diverse heritage, shaped by centuries of historical interactions. Let’s delve into the fascinating mosaic of its DNA composition:
European Ancestry: The majority of Dominicans trace their roots back to European settlers, primarily of Spanish origin. Approximately 73% of the founder population’s DNA is estimated to be of European descent 12. This European influence has left an indelible mark on Dominican culture, language, and traditions.
African Heritage: The fusion of African and European elements during colonization resulted in a significant African contribution. Around 17% of the founder population’s DNA has African origins 1. After subsequent migrations, this percentage increased to 35% 2. The African influence is evident in music, dance, religion, and cuisine.
Native Taino Roots: The indigenous Taino people inhabited the island before European arrival. Their genetic legacy persists, constituting approximately 10% of the founder population’s DNA 1. Although their numbers were significantly reduced due to colonization and disease, their cultural impact remains.
Complex Admixture: The Dominican population is a vibrant mix of these three ancestral sources. While 75% of Dominicans are visibly and evenly mixed, the remaining 25% exhibit varying degrees of African or European blood 1. This intricate genetic tapestry reflects the nation’s complex history.
Y Haplogroups: The Y chromosome analysis reveals an excess of northern African/European lineages (59%), followed by African clades (38%), with Native American lineages being rare (3%) 3. This further underscores the diverse genetic heritage.
In summary, the Dominican Republic celebrates its multicultural identity, where European, African, and Taino legacies intertwine to create a unique and vibrant tapestry of humanity. 🌎🇩🇴
All very true, however; many Dominicans deny their African heritage.
Just passed by through the comments and I noticed they don't even give a like to people who provides information and speak positive about the Dominican people. Just let it show that they hate Dominicans and only give heart and like who agreed with what they said 😢 that sad.
@anti dominicanos progres de izquierda. 😂 eso es lo que son. Los mismos que buscan beneficios con el racismo.
@@Liftercode Don’t matter what you say to them they’ll still go to their traditional standard reference “ONE DROP RULE” ironically created by The white MASTER of yesteryear.
That's because they have a bully like nature
As a super mixed Dominican, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO IDENTIFY HOWEVER WE WANT!!! Many Dominicans are mixes of a lot of things, and yeah, we can recognize when someone looks majority from different ethnic groups its because we don't put as much emphasis on race! Its simply just how someone looks, if they're more Taino looking or Indian or Black or YT its not to say anyone is lesser like in American English its just how you describe someone. Also, because of this, every state I've been in I've met at least 3 Dominicans 🇩🇴 that ive been able to identify because there's a presence of Taino Genes (Native Carribean Islanders, often looking black but with straight texture or straight wirey and straight European in modern Taino persons) even in F-ing Kansas. Oftentimes, you don't want to be identified by US Black culture as there's a lot of hyper sexual content and violence meant to brainwash kids into being those things when they get older. And LASTLY, mixed people are allowed to Identify however they please, just because someone looks fully black doesn't mean they are! Black women give birth to white babies same as a spainish looking Dominican can give birth to a baby thats more Taino (Straight with Texture) or Black (curly texture) presenting. NEVER ASSUME SOMEONE IDENTITY!!! All with love tho and SHOUTOUT TO MY FELLOW TAINOSSS!!!❤❤❤❤
The Dominicans are right they're not black it's just another word to describe a person. One time Africans didn't call themselves black they call by their tribe name or country.
My Dominicana ex gf use to say the same shyt, got so offended when people would called her black.
Very good 😊
*It's something that was built in their MIND for centuries 😂.*
They discover who they're, when they get deported from SPAIN.
Coz she was right hahah, mulattoes who are a mix between white and black have a higher percentage of European than African DNA, in the Dominican Republic there is no such racial division as in the US and that is why she does not identify herself that way
Europeans put a caste system in place in the D.R. that's why most dominicans don't think they are black but they are.
I personally don't get offended. But I do get ppl that tell me oh I thought you were YT or Asian or Native American and then the people who straight up ask are you black and WTF is my plantain looking ahhh supposed to say??? The worst, when people ask AGAIN after I explain a small percent of my blood can be traced back to Africa and I'm mostly Taino and European so I identify as a PROUD Dominican 🇩🇴
Can't say it enough but am so happy to see two young persons researching and tking on serious issues. Wishing you so much success.
The colnial masters did a great job on blck people across the globe. Each European power had their own twist to their indoctrination programme. The black of DR are special; they are in total denial about their identity, but with your work you can help to make a difference.
Black people have to start loving our blackness and redefining beauty.
Thank you Nolram🙏🏻
Afro DR identify with descriptive terms that describe their melanin. They dont identify with the statue of Black. They identify as indigenous as well. Maybe really talk to the people and read uo on them. Instead of assuming
This kind of question only matter when you and your family have their problems solved by your own efforts, if you have time to lose you have this kind of conversations, this a waste of time dominicans will not change their way of thinking
If our race is 18% white, 7.8% black and 74% mulato indigenous, why are we supposed to call ourselves Black when our black percentage is the lowest?? We just don’t identify ourselves as black, we don’t identify ourselves as white either even though our whit percentage is two times our black percentage! Y’all need to stop trippin.
People, I am Dominican, I am black, white, Indian, and Brown. You can't put all Dominican in one basket. Does Dominican that refuse to see themselves as having black influence, they lack education. So this video should not even be discussed or generalized Dominican.
😳🤔, A people without the knowledge of their past history, origins, culture is like a tree 🌲 without roots- Marcus Garvey Quote
They are ashamed of their origin. And that's all. And shame on them
@@schompificationSABEMOS muy bien Nuestro origen y por eso no nos dejamos deconstruir ni dividir, mis ancestro son Españoles, Indios Tainos, y Africanos y no podemos negarlos, por ende somos DOMINICANOS Y NADA MAS.
Are they denying African heritage or the history of slavery?
Or just rejecting the term black
@@bluebell3720look at the comment before yours acknowledging African roots. We just deny being black American. There was a miscommunication somewhere along the line African Americans all of a sudden acting like black isn't used as a cultural identifier in United States. "Ooh your denying being black!"
This video is probably one of the worst and most distorted versions of the truth that I have ever heard and seen in my entire life. If you are going to make an argument about the racial identity of a particular country or group of people, please thoroughly review the facts before perpetuating false information, making generalizations or arriving at any ill-founded conclusions. First get the facts straight, listen to both sides of the story from those who are truly qualified to discuss such a complex topic and maybe then make an informed opinion.
If you are going to make comparisons, then compare apples to apples not apples to oranges. Saying that Jamaica or Haiti is ethnically, culturally, and racially equal to the DR is preposterous. Just to give you one example of the inaccuracies is the reference made about PLANTAINS. This starchy fruit did not come from Africa but rather originated in Southeast Asia, which later came to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade by way of the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory, for this reason, I ask, can you name one country in Africa where plantains like Dominicans is part of their everyday diet? Have you ever wondered why Plantains is not a common food staple in any of the African Countries? I can go on and on about so many other errors in this video that it’s pathetic and in order for me to help clarify them, I will need to write a book.
And if you are going to put someone on to discuss this very complex topic, make sure the person is impartial, most importantly qualified to talk about it, not speak from a subjective point of view, and tainted or influenced by the US American concept of a black Afrocentric ideology. The DR is not only just black, but also among other things white, tri-racial, quadroon, quarteron, octoroon, mestizo, multi-racial, multiethnic, and multicultural. Yes, the DR is that, then some and much more.
The DR unlike most countries in the western hemisphere, its people are a product of mutigenerational miscegenation which as a result became a nation where native lost a clear sense of their own racial identity. They can best be described as ambiguous or with an undefined race and for this reason often times misunderstood and misinterpreted by others. This video is a perfect example of the confusion among many, including yourselves who erroneously believed Dominicans are in denial or self hating.
Thank you. The distinction is a good look to many🖤
Being Dominican is a nationality ( a STATUS of belonging to a particular NATION), NOT a race. Race (any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry) Know Thyself!!!!!
When a person fills out a application it asks you to check off your race
A Dominican will identify themselves as Latino
Not to deny their black heritage but they're answering the question
They identify as Latino
They're saying im Latino not Black
Its a whole other question if they were asked do you have Black ancestors
Thats a different question
Reason #1 most Dominicans refuse to identify themselves as Black is because of the downfall of Haiti.
You need to read the history of Haiti.....The people who look like the majority of Dominicans where classified as mulattos not black....
Let people identify what they want to. People should not be forced to call themselves blk just b/c other people think they should. Only blk Americans call themselves a color!
@@BRKS627 What?
@@BRKS627 Your reply has nothing to do with my comment.
@@BRKS627 Your reply has nothing to do with my comment!
@@exoticchocolatecaribbean_q5624 ok troll move on
My dude Godfrey is right Iam both DR & PR and he is speaking a 💯 Facts 🫵🙌😝😂🤣 we are one of the first mixture of half Black and Spanish and thats how you get a Dominicans point blank period 🙏😎...Bless all in YESHUA holy name
Your nationality doesn’t make you bi racial. It’s anti black. I’m from Louisiana and lighter than some people who insist they are part Spanish. Race is a social construct. Ya look black not mixed.
@@kaioiamo1503 Facts I agree 💯 percent 😊👍
I doubt you’re Pr or Dominican bc you wouldn’t have said we’re half blk and Spanish when my people are mixed with FAR more than that anyway we def wouldn’t be biracial but triracial and even then there’s so much diversity on the island you can’t define everyone into a category there were Japanese and middle eastern settlers in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic which is why we have significant amounts of middle eastern blood it’s common for us to have Lebanese blood and etc ..
@@goddessboricuaa1313don't tell them the truth with facts, they're just going to get even crazier 😂. You're 100% on the money though.
@@kaioiamo1503most dominicans are bi-racial though. Generationally bi-racial/ tri-racial since 500 years ago.
Dominicans have a wide and diverse ethnic makeup. Just because most Dominicans have African Blood, does not make them African/Black. They have and are mixed with various indigenous people, Spaniards i.e. European blood and even White Europeans.
" The majority of the population (around 70 per cent) are of mixed African and European (Spanish) descent, with the remainder black (around 16 per cent) and white (14 per cent). During the early colonial period indigenous Taíno-Arawak communities were also part of the overall population." Therefore, they can identify as being European as well.
Dominicans are Dominicans. Black are black and white are white and that’s that.
Just non of their business....😂
You are what you are not what someone says you are, if the police think you are a prostitute does it make you one. Hell no. I am from Trinidad and I am mixed, because it is what I really am, Mt African and Native mom and my Indian second generation from India Dad says we have to describe as mixed, and I look like Prince. My daughter's mom is Chinese and Lebanese White she is also mixed not one side. People just want what they want and not what they really are not me.
I'm definitely not mad at you for claiming mixed race. It makes sense.
What I find truly asinine is when people who have African blood running through their veins look down on blck / African people and think that they are better than.
@@LuvvMyBrownSkinThe thing is many mixed people feel that they are better than everyone and not just black people. Some of us tend to become very narcissistic by the constant praising of our features.
Your nationality does not define you but your identity tells who you are. !!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Exactly if you got darker skin and you got a drop of African your getting treated differently theirs no way around it.
Yes it does.
@DoDahhhhhhhhh well keep believing that I'm 60yo I lived in the Era when crosses was still being burned 🔥 for being Black you have no ideal
@@BillyTimes-dw7vs You can be a 60 year old, old fool too. Also the boomer generation of Black Americans do not identify as Africans. So idk where u pull this drop of African from. They identified as Negro/Indian. Thats assuming you are American
@@BillyTimes-dw7vs You cant say nothing to me with that Asian woman on your arm. You left the black community along time ago. All those Black Gi making bastard babies in the Philippines
They are clearly multi racial not black. Why are you arguing with people about who they are. They know better than you.
Indeed!
@dahliar410, as in other Hispanic American identities with diverse ethnicities together, the truth is that in Hispanic America there is no culture determined exclusively by your ethnicity. A Caribbean Dominican can be anything from black to white, to give an example. 👍
People like David Ortiz, Alfonso Soriano, Sammy Sosa are pretty black
@@IblewuponyourfaceIIISoriano and sosa have Haitian roots. Ortiz has roots from English speaking British islands
@@Xenlacasa45 and they’re still black, they come from west Africa “Sub-Saharan” African
I have no issue with anyone saying, they are puerto rican or dominican, mexican regardless of their color , and in the end its their choice how they want to identify themselfs by their nationality or some far background. I think this topic has to be treaded carefully because it can become toxic .. forcing others to think they african because of color or other reasons is wrong, "let them be"..