I commented and so can anyone else.

Mami,

I understand and there is nothing wrong with neutrality if you belong to both of certain races.

It wasn't towards you Wil I was just commenting on the fact that you and others of similar bloodline shouldn't have to choose or shouldn't be ostracized b/c they are not 100% this or 100% that.

No one with such lineage should feel forced into thinking that it has to be one or the other. And I realize that sometimes when someone of this nature wants to be affiliated culturally with one of there
sides, if they don't look like the ideal or desired look of the culture they may not recieve the warmest welcome. Look if the guy or girl wants to resonate with what's in his or her blood- then let it go. So maybe he/she doesn't look like most of you back home, but they can't because they're mixed and their genotype is influenced by both races.

This is one of the reason even in the US you hear people of mixed heritage having identity issues- partly due to the fact they have another racial influence and for that they cannot resonate with both of their cultures.

I wish others would just get over it, would ya?!

Am an immigrant to DR ? ? ? Are you on DRUGS??? My mother and father and grandfathers were born in DR... What a DUMB FUCKING COMMENT...

PS you do know that Blacks are not native to the land... You came from africa... so by you definition if I am an immigrant so are you!!!

No one but the original Tainos have sole claim to the island but since they are no longer here to assert that claim, others have come and staked their claim. We've simply established the land as ours and have separated it into two governing states but naturally it wasn't ours to begin with. Spaniards, Frenchmen, and Africans, Middle Easterners, Asians, Jews, and the likes have all come to this island contributing to the essence of these two governing states we call Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Who cares who has what ancestry and who's ancestors were here the longest...truth is that every Haitian and every Dominican is an inhabitant of the island however all are products of immigration (forced or voluntarily) and miscegenation rendering all of this "claim talk" null and void. There really is no Hispaniola. There are common culture and historical links but in the end there is only Haiti and the Dominican Republic and therefore the concept of "one island" really doesn't exist. Hispaniola only exists on a geographical standpoint. My African ancestors were forcefully brought here and my French ancestors settled here. Both were part of Haitian society and their existence led to my existence. So in the end...who cares?

There you go fellow,

I wanted you to come to this term precisely and exactly as you've said it above finally yourself. Thank you, you are done here by your own omission, recognition and once again her is your very own quote back at you. "So by your definition, if I am an immigrant so are you!" because and simply that most of us are indeed just that, immigrants yet indigenous to what world? Oh yeah Earth!!!

As Dominican did not just happen in the face of the Earth or of the Island, especially and given they are a mixed race themselves of Africans, Europeans and oh yeah the supposedly romanticized idea of "Taino natives" which were claimed to have been extinct before any chance to have been repopulated to ever consider that many Dominicans would have been a direct descent of those Natives simply in effort to try to differentiate themselves to not want to be called Africans by ancestry simply because of their resented Anti-Haitiasmo feelings toward Haitians, but hey and thus anything else sounds better than to claim Africa due to negative stigmas.

Well, on my mother's side her grandfather and great great frangfather of her mother were all born in DR and her other grandfather and great grandfather of her father were all born of either Haiti or a mixture of DR and HAITI thus innate of the Island. Even some of my father's ancestry though mix with being middle eastern, yet still part Haitian most of whom were born on the Island or have resided there for a long time as well thus surrogated innate of the Island.

P.S: So the idea that you and Arc think you can tell who should be on this site or not to discuss Haitian & Dominican Republic matters and affaires simply because it says Dominican today even with the knowledge that there is a Haitian community in DR is repugnantly ridiculous.

Well put and said, HayShin and thank you!!!

Oh I know it was not towards me ma, I was just saying that I agreed with your analysis.

Thanks AfroLatino. This incessant and constant bickering over things that we have no control over is mentally aggravating at the very least.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Lets resonate with our humanity before anything else.