Decolonization. Destroying internalized anti-blackness. Analyzing Afro-Dominican history on the island and in the United States. Follow for interesting threads!
@Beats_by_Blue
There was a lice outbreak when I was in 2nd grade, I was scared, the paraprofessional in my class an older black woman told me โhoney black people canโt get liceโ with a straight face. Iโve never forgotten this.
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@JDBoost
@JUARANTINE
U can like his music and acknowledge that heโs very much a โgentrificationโ of Puerto Rican urban music historically and is tone deaf when it comes to cultural appropriation and not even acknowledging BLM.
@ROUSEYSHIRAl
Yes, it will be a generic white-mestizo Latin-American family will all the tropes and stereotypes and typical immigrant struggles. They will probably have abuela from Mexico and the highly Americanized grandchildren. Episode about the Quinciaรฑera no doubt.
Dominican Spanish cuts out plurals, uses double negatives, strong contractions and contains several European influences, African words, Taino words, Spanish archaisms, Anglicisms, and urban slangs.
Itโs a Spanish creole.
Why are you bootlicking and bigging up this very small migration?
There are many, many, many more Dominicans of Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian descent than Dominicans of Jewish descent.
You idiots need to stop pulling out that dumb ass joke this man was brutalized.
Black Dominicans experience racism and are marginalized too. In real life millions of Dominicans identify as black and there are dozens of social justice organizations and academics trying to fight.
@EdsonDamianJ
The majority of Latin-Americans are mestizos of European and Native American ancestry and lean more European phenotypically.
A lot of you should be checking white I know it hurts but itโs true. For many people this is tricky but for others itโs clear cut with them in denial.
Just watched some of โIn The Heightsโ.
Itโs a pretty inauthentic film beyond color just everything is off and clichedโfrom the dialogue to the wardrobe.
This is for white folks basically.
@tamu02_
I fail to see the correlation.
Kendrick Lamar as a descendant of the African slave trade felt an ancestral connection to this place and went to discover his roots.
Burna Boy has no connection or history tied to American ghettos.
@Variety
The neighborhood it is set in is Dominican. Go find me a Peruvian in the Heights. ๐
This is an idealization not the reality of Washington Heights. Itโs okay all Latinos arenโt united in real life. In some cases thereโs even ethnic strife between us. Letโs stop the fantasy.
@danielaciarpag
People need to understand Latinos are not a monolith. Itโs a highly diverse group a third gen mestizo Mexican-American in Arizona isnโt going to vote like a first gen black Dominican-American in NYC who isnโt going to vote like a second gen white Cuban-American in Miami.
Ce nโest pas du Bachata, ni du Konpa, ni du Meringue :
Cโest le Carabinier, la plus ancienne danse crรฉole dโHaรฏti qui a donnรฉ naissance aux Meringue(s)๐ญ๐น๐ฉ๐ด.
Il vit encore mais pour combien de temps encore ?
@ChezCharde
You believe ALL Africans believed in religion?
I donโt like this stance at all. All peoples have religion to instill values, moral codes, and justify/explain existence but there have always been non-believers in all cultures.
@PapitoLoquitoo
Itโs looking real โAfroโ back there too.
Macho need to take his 40 year old police looking ass in the house nobody wants those Gildan tees.
To all my black Dominicans this is how a lot of white and heavily European-dominant mulattoes feel about us deep down and some are as brazen as this guy.
Balaguer vibes. A lot of them just tolerate us under the guise of nationalism on some โtheyโre our blacksโ type shit.
I would trade millions of black Dominicans (dark Dominicans, Dominicans with visibly high afro dna) for 5 Ricans so long as those black Dominicans go to Africa and not PR. I will die on this hill
@GIRBAUDJEANZ
Ehhhh, not all people part of the ADOS movement are xenophobic in their rhetoric and black immigrants need to be mindful of their claims and understand our positioning in the American system. Itโs really a complex discussion that requires understanding from both sides.
She grew up in a context where Dominican was synonymous with โSpanishโ or โLatinoโ and therefore not black itโs a two way street.
Most people do not know this stuff we can talk about it all day from a technical standpoint but colloquially thatโs just the thinking unfortunately.
Ice Spice not knowing that Black and Dominican are not mutually exclusive terms while Black Americans weaponize the word "Mexican" when referring to Cardi B just confirmed everything I already knew. We are (culturally) cooked.
Internalized white supremacy is a helluva drug.
In the 1970โs Dominican Republic ๐ฉ๐ด Haitian ๐ญ๐น songs could be heard on the radio, there were black fests with leading black Dominican musicians and entertainers, the Senegalese ๐ธ๐ณ ballet performed in Santiago.
All things that would be met with intense xenophobia today.
En la dรฉcada de los 70โs se celebrรณ en el Estadio Olimpico la fiesta negra, que fue un concierto en honor a la raza negra en el que casi todos los artistas eran negros.
Para esa misma รฉpoca vino al paรญs el ballet de danzas tribales de Senegal.
Imaginen si eso ocurre ahora.
The thought that Dominicans deserve to be brutalized by police or to die from natural disasters because of โme no blackโ or actions of the state that the typical black marginalized Dominican has no control over and/or may not even support is sickening.
Shame on yโall.
Dominicans in Santiago argue and attempt to stop migratory agents from detaining a Haitian worker much to the annoyance of the nazionalistas who argue they too should be arrested.
Down with antihaitianism and police brutalityโฆ
Circunvalaciรณn oeste Santiago . Migraciรณn recogiendo los haitianos y Dominicanos trataron de impedir que los agentes migratorios se lo lleven esto tiene que parar tienen que llevรกrselos dominicanos preso lo que interrumpen las labores de los agentes migratorios
@ginatorres
There are no piragua vendors from Puerto Rico in modern day Washington Heights, Ms. Torres.
Yun-yun vendors from DR, yes. Todayโs Washington Heights and the one you grew up in decades ago are different. These nuances matter.
Dominicans do not feel represented by this movie.
@HispanistaRD
Y esto ahora dique que el dominicano nunca a tenido Afro y todos esos merenguero y sus bandas en los 80โs. ๐
El joven dominicano hoy en dia anda con su Afro blow out, trenzas de todas variedades, Rastas, twisties.
The anti-blackness of many today is disappointing but this isnโt true.
Dominican slaves were highly rebellious.
From the very first slave revolt of the Americas in 1521 to Santiago Basoraโs uprising to ensure the end of slavery after Dominican Independence in 1844.
Every time Dominicans talk they prove they were indeed the most low maintenance easily brainwashed slaves ever. And to his day... The cheapest. Absolutely embarrassing.
You arenโt a Conquistador.
If youโre white like that I assure your ancestors were Canarian country bumpkins shut the fuck up. ๐คฃ
You are not them, you are not the aristocracy, if you were you wouldnโt have had to flea to Washington Heights.
When you win the info war, when you dictate a personโs self-image, and perception you control them.
The same nazionalistas have edited the โPeople of Dominican Republicโ Wikipedia page hell bent on not showing black people.
Letโs take a dive in this threadโฆ ๐๐ฝ
@got_cake
Anti-blackness is widespread in Latin America the notion that Dominicans are exceptional racists doesnโt hold up and is disingenous especially when the comparison is Puerto Rico and Cuba where the cultures are extremely similar down to the caste colorist skin color descriptors.
@TheeEmpiire
U donโt speak for all Dominicans.
Dominicans and Haitians are both West Indian and Latino countries.
Dominicans and Haitians due to proximity and shared history have more connection on the island than with other Latinos and Caribbean peoples.
Just saw Univision in NYC is doing specials for BHM and they highlighted the Garifuna ๐ญ๐ณ community here. Just the word afrodescendia being used on air is showing significant progress.
Paโ Black History month
#Latinegras
sat with
@lourdeshuep
to talk abt AfroLatinos & the challenges of visibility. This was one of my favorite interviews, I felt like it went beyond the surface & was a fuller story. This aired in
@Telemundo
Feliz
#BlackHistoryMonth
a todos
@maracharese
@angelicabastien
Itโs a film about a neighborhood named Washington Heights in NYC. It is predominantly Dominican and many Dominicans there are Afro-Latinos.
This film casted mostly lighter Puerto Ricans , Cubans, Mexicans and did not capture the culture of the neighborhood well at all.